The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 11, 1943, Page 2

; : ee Wrst Citizen | HELL FROM THE SKIES Everybody is guessing, so you make a When will the German war-machine crack ap? Newspaper in Key We Moaree County © Sey Weel, Florida. as second class matter | says ree or four months; the writer, as |S | November 11, 1943." That date is three eee $0.00 } months from today, and _ it will mark the he ———————_- 2% | twenty-fifth anniversary of the first World ae | War armistice. The radio is humming with guesses, |and newspapers are running column ar- resolutioss ot | ticles about the probability of Germany's yo arged for at | suing “or peace shortly. Many of the guess s\nment by churches trom which | ers stress the setbacks with which the Ge he Ge are 5 cents a Ime. . . - forum and invites discus- | mans are meeting in Russia as the main, or subjects of local or general : "18 net publish anonymous communi- | one of the main. reasons why the thoughts ———————_——______________ | of the German warlords turn to peace, but €DITORIAL_ if that was all they had to worry them, they SOCIATION would go on fighting, on and on, intermir ably. Stop the bombing of German cities, and the German war-machine could stale- )MPPOVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE citizen | °"*!0"- We, in Key West, have to trust to our imaginations to try to engender a concep- tion of the horrors of a modern air raid. Let us consider the super-blockbuster, an 8,000- pound bomb, that has torn many parts of Germ to pieces. If one of them struck the City Hall in Key West, you would feel the concussion at Pirates Cove, 22 miles More Hotels and Apartments. * Seech and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. ‘ weelidation of County and City Gov- ernments. : Modern City Hospital. Sects away. TROUBLE AHEAD IN PALESTINE But we can paint a picture that will be more appreciable to Key West adults in Nangerous potentialities are shaping | forming an idea of the terrible results of a eteelves in Palestine where Jews and bombing raid. You, who have gone through re determined to control the Hoiy | a hurricane, naturally have no liking for he future that manifestation of Nature in an ugly ood, yet a hurricane is like a cheek-cool- 1. Sulzberger, correspondent of The York Times, says that both races are | ing zepiyr compared to a blockbuster air engaged in preparations for mili- | raid. m, buying arms and ammunition | Those former steel and concrete struc- ! preparing for hostilities. | tures in Germany that have been reduced to the newspaper man estimates that the | rubble could have withstood a hurricane that ave hidden 80,000 rifles and a large | never «eased. Their wind resistance aver- fammunition and machine-guns, | aged 200 miles an hour, more than three wtare and hand grenades. The Jews, he | times as much as the velocity of the average werts. are also building a formidable se- | hurricane. Some hurricanes blow more than © force and estimates that they have 30,-/| 100 miies an hour, but their sustained fifies and revolvers, 2,000 large weap- | velocity is generally below that force Mich ammunition and grenades. The Germans would welcome a day- ~ The question of Palestine has engaged | in-and-day-out hurricane in place of those emtiien for many years. More recently, | ear “ih organizations in various countries! building is torn to pieces as though it was wee eallied to the idea of establishing a | 4 house of cards. and. They seek the support of Great ! You would pack up and leave town aed the United States, asking for | wherever that town may be, where a hur © te wation of a Jewish army to fight in! cane fcrever blew, yet the people of Ger- x shaking explosions, so terrific any rT present war } many face the daily blasting by something ’ Arabs resent the arrival of Jewish | far mor e, blowing wrants, fearing that the newcomers | every day. You know how you dread a hu terrible than a hurricar hecome dominant and deprive them of | ricane, when you h that one is heade* i does not begin to ad the Germans en- it, they hear « in Palestine. this way, but your dr W ith both races training guerilla fight- | compare with the dre * eee organizing various systems of de- | tertain when, in the dead of . end offensive operations, there is an ! the drone of on-coming planes of destruc- «t of explosions when the | tion. Jewish soldiers, now serving If your gue. or the writer's guess, or t about the imminence of Sihied armies, return to Palestine as) my guess is ri ‘ the handling of arms. the Germans’ seeking peace, then you may wi wizberger warns leaders of the | pe sure that the reason for takir - ‘ations that to ignore these prepara- | tion is not traceable to the Russian f ead to riots and pogroms | The thing that has reduced Germany to a v tout the Middle East, unless the en-| country of dread is the round-the-clock ion is handled with | hombing of her cities, ne of which are quest ad firmness mere shells of what they were before t his conclusion, he is probably cor- | war. You may be able to sleep soundly if fee it is obvious that any solution | you knew that hell may be rained from the ’ fair both races will satisfy nei- | <ky at any moment, but our sleep would be é hat it will require consideral fretful even were we deep down in a bomt e ep the peace in the question- chelter. . | The air raids—they have provided the horrors that first tautened 2 broke NO SCOOP! the Germans’ nerve ny not only of a nation but You've done t. now do 4 vest . s now in the making.” | —puy more war | arned brother in a recent ad- 4 as been true, so far as the hu- i ~ e is concerned, since the dawn of . has been true of the United S s. ’ n, since the Declaration of Inde- : © Was signed don comes the strange news ally, the idea is no seo has been a marked increase in urities of enemy and occ1- is a good idea if it is a pied countries. A few Year: 1 could not be sold at any ’ ecient. Japanese and rman bo! many is accumulating a wealth— value. ‘ h. as Allied bombers keep on Buyers of h bonds, it seems, believe - ge her that a det °o e Axis will leave sas these ccuntries with something for the le ship in any community is not a bondholders. Trading is limited to cast 4 y « ributing a few dollars to transac s, FY » public causes. We are a_ bit surprised . _—_——_—_——— bonds are for sale at any price or th Have you met the latest home-fi ing is vermitted at all. It might be . he man or woman, forever talk idea for nations, when they dec} > victory, and doing nothing at all on on other nations, to outlaw traffic i Here, in The Citizen office, Radibus ' OP" OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS though he were drawing up a note, with Serre let Press is exctusivel s] Pj Py : sagetion of aii howe diepatches ereditea ss | Which hundreds of residents in the realty Sp ttehed bere |” th'* Paper and also the | hoom days were familiar: “On or before | mate the Russians for generation after gen- | THE KEY WES1 CITiZEN WED: Chapter 18 ERNANDO’S brow crinkled. I said. “Hombre Chevaile. Che- vaile?” “Chevaile,” Hernando repeated. “Senor Johnson talk of Senor Che- vaile.” My heart was thumping. They) had taken up the bait sooner than I had thought. “What did Johnson say?” He scratched at his beaked nose. “Opalo.” “Opalo?” Lila Taggard put down her cigarette and I reflected there was no doubt of the working agree- ment between them. I questioned him at length. All he recalled was Opalo. Since he was a miner he had wondered if Senor Chevaile dealt in opals. There was nothing more to be gained from him. | told him to come back’ tomorrow afternoon and I would have more money for him. As he left, she said, “Why don't you follow him, Senor?” “I don’t think there’s much in what Hernando said about Che- vaile. I think he’s lying. As I se: it, he was just waiting to sell me something. Anything. But opals.” “Opalo,” she murmured, laugh- ing. “How imaginative Mexicans are! Hernando has seen American movies. He could bave said oro. But you see he comes from a gold district. That would be too easy. so he says opalo. He might have bought an opal ring once or ad- mired one.” “Associations?” opened slightly, ly as if she had been shocked. “Opalo? Why there's a club by that name.” “A club?” I said innocently, thinking that they had both been T. y had their own reasons g to direct our investi- nto Chevaile’s history. If KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY” FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF AUGUST 11, 1933 WV VV wre rv rrrrrre Your Grocer Sells THAT GOOD STAR * BRAND eed cunaN COFFEE TRY A POUND B00nlaseeseseeecee- MURDER INT. | Chevaile and the Club Opalo—” | NESDAY, AUGUST 11, 19% | | | Today In History | Today's me Anniversaries F AUGUST 11 j By CARL A. PETERSON 1768. — Benjamin Franklin{ AUGUST !1 \founds first circulating library in} t 2 1870.—David H. Atchuon, M jcountry, in Philadelphia. ee ae would have gotten around to Che-;has pressured Lila Taggard into vaile in their own way. | working for them? “It's a gambling club. I've beens there with dad. Long ago. But City was named, born . regtew | 1768—A Spanish force reaches Ky. Died Jan. 26, 1886 ee See She | site of present St. Louis and takes! brings you to Chevaile and | al col a of . Pt og B turn tips you off |possession of country in name 1812—Joseph P Machebeew Z apt ! ; of Spair . 7 Spalo tonigitt? We might look it wicks up with: another Sp | ‘Catholic missionary-bishap, bee — : ; j about Chevaile. Is font 2 coi | 1781—British capture Amer-|in France. Died July 10, 18a Mer eyelids had stretched wide| fathrop's name a few days ago. |.can frigate “Trumbull” —leaving _ apart. “I don't know what to|‘This latent rivairy between’ the | but two frigates in American ser-) 1833—Robert G Ingersoll b think.” she said. "It can’t be pos. | Gestapo and the Japs is very real. | vice. nois soldier and lawyer ares sible that this Johnson coul | And it looks as if it's breaking out | agnostic generation — ter mentioned Chevaile— into open hostilities. It's the tin. * «nar.|Dresden, N. Y. Died July 21, 190 Hernando is either lying or Don't forget the Japs already 1834.—Ursuline convent, Char-! Dresden, 5 J {control the Thailand and Dutch { jestown, Mass., destroyed by mob.} oe ' 1847—Benjamin KT Ise what?” | East Indies tin. If the Axis won, the Japs hy controlling the Potosi mines and the Sam Taggard tin, would have a worldwide tin mo- nopoly. Yes, this Chevaile-Johnson o- rivalry is worth exploiting. You iu see any link will go to the Club Opalo tonight th Carolina govern = oe When rumored that ad-|horn Edgefield Co. S © ie ss Americans planning tO! Suly 3, 1918 ttack on Cuba to wrest it sieneiinia Tyler warns! 1969 Gari Molch« ow “Johnson might have squeezed vaile’s name out of Lathrop. Chevaile mentiened Lathrop to us,” I said. » they killed’ { will phone Chevaile and use ve law of NeU-' horn in Detroit. Died WN rown out Che-| what-I know of the Jap pets nan ae toma paratus to order him there.” ” sees it Charyaad| 7OU believe 1909.—First radio SOS in his-| 1867—Joseph M Wee and tne Opaio t together, pam Opalo ory—Araphoe,” th eng fam ober and Firtde mean anything to business address for enemy i off Cape Hatteras ville team, born New Yor! Thirty minutes later I was re-| agents? And that Hernando, rep- May 10, 1942 porting to Fail. I resenting Johnson, was sent to me = aes saree nando s visit, of H to deliberately get us after Che- .. P r. Hugh ‘ tion of coming vaile?” | 25 years ago): Washing- Spe zee ’ i- {ton Ss coun against insin-|famed surge ‘ nediately had rad : penne ol Mass., 71 “e ne describ » detail | i - - to two ry om Axis agents disseminate certair sie iemonst ed in to | facts like a newspaper wire ser- ers urge >| aeunich, » the tequila place and if pos-| vice. Johnson has told Cheraile . @ to spot Hernando and keep! about you. But you're not too | ———i |- 1990.—Feen. & ‘ ch. I reported on! easy to pin down. Don't forge 1935.—N Troopers’ curb installment. buying we haven't invest: just learned that! tapo murder of L was_a French to Korea. This is the’ , wo fathers, Chevaile’s ggard’s. And of the children. I told you ELECTRIC APPLIANCES HOW TO GET LONGER LIFE FROM THEM Never immerse in water. 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