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Ake} ——— WHERE THERE’S SMOKE The Qin Wirst Citizen | M Valtiched Daily + F. AteRM EN, © aN, ieniweng Citizen Hu © aud Ann Streets | Key Westers who were youths or grown-ups during the last \yorld war re- call, that there were several false reports 6 ncept Sund: awe Ghiy Dally Newspaper in Key Weat and about peace before the authoritative an- | is Wee an gocond class matter | HOUNcemert on November 11, 1918. x In some parts of the country, includ- ing Key West, premature. celebrations, over, the end of the war, were under way when = ee it was learned that the teport was: false. : saeange: lh aaa 10.08 | 3ut where there was smoke there was 278 | jiire then, as is-now, and always «will be. 142 | While no ‘false report of thesendimg of the | war im @urope “has ‘yet been made, yet | there was a rumor yesterday, whith:made | rounds of the country, that hostilities | BD PRESS ively entitled to ® dispatches credited this paper and ADYRETISING RATES known on applieation NOTICE thanks, resolutions ete, WHI be the spmetaL c were on the point of ending. “ . enterta me A oy - For a month before Armistice Day in | " pen forum. and invites jis 1918, talk then was in the same vein as | Pe ot cotiles anonymous jit is now. The-war, in that way, was about } ________—_ to end, from day to day’ as the war today j s about to end from day to day. Some of he rumors then vere traceable, as was the me Wednesday that had its inception in he — House. ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN i More Hotels and apartments. A correspondent, at a press confer- | 2% Beach and Bathing Pavilion. ence, asked ‘the President if it was).true t Airporw—Land and Sea. hat members of the cabinet and other offi- ' Consolidation of County and City Gov- ials had been requested to remain in ornaments. i Washington ahd not attend the werld-con- >» Communty Auditorium |} .erenc that is to be held in San Francisco | WRF. ! next month, and the President answered ea ARMY ASKS YOU FOR CLOTHES = *“itmatively. Somebody n that - construed his answer to word shortiy would be received Another pcatton meee + ai ‘rom Germany offering to surrender, and’ ypon the nation is seen in the ‘that the President wished the cabinet pen Army officials that families of embers to be in Washington when that wepviee men to retrieve from closets, bu- news was received by the White House. vreau drawers and attic trunks whatever But that conjecture turned out to be | Army clothing or equipment they may find’ | YTong, according to a White House ex- The Army proposes to pay ihe carry- planation, in which it was said that the | | ~ cies seat eubes'that peckages be lim- sident’s only ebject was not to tax our ed t© not more than 30 pounds. Any per- | ‘#nsportation system by having members ae ele has Qt “clothes. and. cquipment | of the cabinet and officials generally leave | “ a « requested to pack and ship | Washington for San Francisco. \ , erty to the “Quartermaster, Cloth- | . However that might have been, the air snd Rquipment Classification Officer” | i tense now, as it was in the fall of 1918, }> i Army Post, camp or station. | °V€" the possibility of word being received The Army points out that vast quanti- j at any moment about the European war . ed and new @dthing or equipment'| having,come to an end. We may have more th families when service men | T’Mors, or false reports over the war’s hav- cilia oc hemeed Inte unused dra ite ended, before Germany collapses, yet discharged veterans, They point apt of gne thing we may be sure: where there’s jime harge veterans should have some smoke there se fire. s which they are willing to part with, Coa Gia Ga ae he Quartermaster Corps reports that | Plant a garden if you want plenty of year more than $200,000,000 in new | vegetables for your table. rel have been made unnecessary by pa snd return to stock of usable items. The test of salesmanship is the num- epair shops reclaim condition worg,| ber bse sales’made. ‘Do you know of a better or torn clothing and yment whith ball test . ‘ v to troops in training and Ss . nbat overseas EXPANSION OF ‘LEND-LEASE The Army says that our fighting men | oa dal! types of clothing, partic At the beginning of this year the r n items. Overcoats, trouser United’States had furnished its Allies with rt ses and underwear are especial- billion dollars in lend-lease aid, more ed | than one-half of it being munitions, and siamo | the rest included such things*as raw mate- ERGEANT BECOMES RULER ri food and oil. The present lend-lease ™ j law expires June 30, and the question of The American M ry Government in | renewing it will have to be determined. rerm area was getting along fine | The House of Representatives has already * of German civilians from three | passed a bill extending lend-lease for an- | tha towns began to appear on the | other year. In doing so the House made the | ty streets, in ation of the cuyfgw, caray sti pulatiah that lend-lease be restricted to baying “pase yearhig, the signaturés of | defense fnrticles, and it. raised barriers ving « ers.” ore against postwar relief, rehabilitation or re- trrewtqation diselosed-that.a first ser- | construction. | fantry company had gone Congress is headed toward a fight Seat om thas et ihe: ed eiilitate vy. against leaving lend-lease to the judgment 6 the For a few days he | of the President. Less thar a month ago it ‘ wdering the village | an Executive agreement was planned that | ts epen their shops and the! provided foy our supplying items such as te go ahead with their work.* He | locomotives,’ ships and industrial equip- ted th irl in town as pub- | ment to France. health o r and took her to another ee | e to with hin “They won't repeat what you don’t | When a nded, the sergeant was | tell! nabashed, nm ng that he had been | PS ected and promoted” by a mysterious | This is still a good time of the year to | elonel Williams, who passe’ through the’ drive carefully on the highways. | md told him that he had been pro- | ea —_—_—_— ted to first lieutenant and that he was | PREPARING FOR PEACE h nilitary governor” of the town. | Other than tracking down the “mys- The gas utility companies of the eri Colonel” the military authorities | United States will spend $1,400,000 a year h had little trouble with the, 30,000 ¢i- | for three years on an expanded program who, they report, have been orderly | of industry research, national advertising | and cooperative. Apparently, there is no | and general promotion, and manuftcturers or the guerrilla or gangster type of | of gas appliances will add $200,000 to this werfere about which Hitler constantly | program. aaa Aside from war activity, this nation re ae | has been almost standing still for the past abou he heroism of our | decade. Household equipment, stores and ' * Men Won't do them as much good | office buildings, farm dwellings and ma- ' something about getting them | chinery, rot to méntion our whole indus- n the survivors come home, | trial structure, are worn down to the quick. _— | Needed replacements and repairs are be- President recently told the nation that jyond calculation, Therefore, industry that take a new hitch” in belts, so that | plans now to be ready to step into the her nations may have more food. We} peacetime harness to handle the domestic ; have always been poor fish—the sucker | load, is rendering a real public service in | variety—and now we must continue to eat | maintain ing jobs and filling the accumu- fieh while the lend-lease nations eat meat. jlated demands of millions of customers, | “PVE got a patient T'd like «| | fishing informed The Citizen this morm-}Stigng;business men and women. season, is Chapter’10.~ something about have you look at,-Merry,”-Dr.| stand. Not simple Frazier said and guided en, into the room. A girl lay in the high, narrow, white hospite! bed, a girl’ who was probably no more than twenty, but so thin and emaciated that she looked much older. Her lack- lustre hair spread on the pillow was lank and damp with»sweat; there were little circles of bright, abel was a hot color in her cheeks, and her} “Of course,” eyes were harried and turned ates. ty. se ey rt— swiftly from one side to the other, while her thin, clawlike. fingers, with work-} roughened tips, plucked ceaselessly at the bedcovers. Stewart said something sooth- ing, but the girl was completely unaware of him; nor was-she con- scious of Meredith, who bent} a! swiftly, laying a soothing.~ cool hand on the girl's forehead, laying fingertips on the thin wrist. Mere- dith looked up swiftly at Stewart, frightened, incredulous; Stewart's tired face was haggard and his eyes were bleak, as, without a word, he offercd her the chart from the foot of the bed. “No!” Meredith whispered sharp, shocked amazement, “I'm afraid there’s not much possibility of a doubt,” said Stew- art, yery low, and turned her to- are,” h ave a suggested ing. said quickly, gr: In Dr. Nichols’ hearted head nw in just sent a third o cases to bed.” “Fever — malariat — bet there’s} thing so damnable as malaria can ever be called simple. But where in heaven's name would people acquire malaria up here?” and one of the Nurse's Aides: thrust her head into the room and. said impo-tantly, ready in the clinic, Dr. Meredith, “His clinic svete are the same as mine. Let's all get togetner 2, too, will you, Stew- briskness she was far from feel- His faée cleared a little and he Merry—that’s the ticket.” Stewart ard Alice, aged, acid-tongued but golden- Nichols and tried they were scared, Dr. Nichols seid grin Pom his eyes very pees and potenti “Mean to say ee haven’t figured that _ out yet it I don’t under- malaria—if any- “Of course not,” she answered, bewildered atthe question, © = * >| Dr. Nichols Stewart. “How about you, | ee ‘Stewart ‘hesitated, bei ere wat rape tee T'm almost afraid to ace Sec flatly, “yerry Butler, of Dr. “Soles modded. “Jer Butler, of course,” he repeat ee else would a tropical dis- ase get-lodse in-a mountain town hundreds of miles from even the semi-tropics of Florida? Jerry's conference. Ask| the only visitor we’ ve had from a tropical country.’ “But, Dr. Nichols, I talked to Jerry yesterday. He looked ‘fine! He's gaining a little weight, and the terror’s «gone :from his eyes, and the sick, ugly memories—” protested Meredith sickly. tap-at the door “Everything’s} 4 ‘said Meredith Meredith with a atefully, “Sure, Cee Meret gefitie the middle- ig “It’s a hellish thing, Meredith,” he said quietly, as Jonathan might have spoken. “Here’s.a bey~who’s gone through an unimaginable ex- perience; ch he’s come home, te :| bring with him the -seéds of ar epidemic that, if we den’t.stamr sat with Dr. to deny that rse one of the, wards the door. : “Mind you, T éaly put! ite pa-| it out, could easily and with a : tient to Be unter ‘ispieton” said] speed you couldn't ve, de UTSIDE in the corridor, there| Dr. Nicho’s. “He brovight'in his| Populatetheplace!” - = was no chance for them to| mother for her regular. weekly| | “How cam we tell him?” said talk, and she and Stewart moved] X-ray trectment. I noticed the kid Mcredith faintly. “How can we be straight to his office. was shaking and I managed to} sure?” “Her symptoms—her condition —are exactly that of the: Loomis child,” said Meredith the moment the door had closed behind them and they were alone. “I thought so, from what you told me about the Loomis child last night,” answered Stewart grimly. He slipped a tiny glass slide beneath the stereoscope on his desk, and adjusted the sight. “Have a look.” She applied her eye and studied the bit of blood smeared on the side, ‘The Loomis child’s blood.sam- ple,” said Stewart and replaced it with another slide, so nearly iden- tical that Meredith caught her feel so good.’ He’: him to stay here *til six clock in building fires.’ time. Maybe.” N EREDITH m: breath. “The Hayden woman.” tressed ges “They’re as nearly identical as “But Dr it is humanly possible,” said Mere- | wor dith in a small. shaken breath. Dr touch his hand and found it burn- ing hot. I talked to him a little and he admitted that he ‘didn’t a thin, half-starved, overworked little devil. I thought I was going to have a devil of a time getting but he finally grinned and said, ‘Well, Doc, if you'll let me sleep be glad to stay! Sure is cold, get- ting out of bed at threc-thirty and I made a blood test. It's the same damned fever, but I think we've ichols, where in the Id could it have come from?” Nichols stared at her. his D*. NICHOLS said curtly, “lve checked. “Every sone -of the three patients has been in ¢ircct contact with Jerry in the pxst week.” Meredith said, “But, DrNich»!s. how does it happen his moth - not affected? And Isabelle? !le's engaged to Isabel. Yet neithe: 0° them is affected.” Dr. Nichols nodded. “Notice > thing that all three of these ~>- tients have in common?” he as’ 's about fourteen. for observation, the morning, ’'ll quietly. “They are all unc er- got this one in} nourished, rundown, ove: worked.” “So it’s only the weak and si * ly that are to be affected, if w: right and this—this horror do < stem from Jerry!” said Meredi*' her face twisted. “Poor Jerry!” To be continued ade a little dis- re. KEY WEST IN DAYS CONE BY! Rear Admiral lof the Boston Navy. Yard born Kansas, 61 years Osborne County, ago. Maj. FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN! OF MARCH 30. 1935 ' Gen. Fr La Casa Marina will close for the season Monday. Jo Davidson, Raymond Einhorn, and Mrs. Einhorn, has made the highest average in this year's senior class in the University of Florida and has been placed in the university's Hall of Fame. son of Mr]. tired, born |years ago. born Union City, PAT aS ago. Three picnics were given her yesterday for schooi children by. Harvey the recreation department of the former pecial TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS */born Harold, S. D., 59 years ago. born New York, 62 years ago. Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, rez) Constitution Fillmore, H. Bund TODAY IN ‘HISTORY Seemann eae recon TRE 1842—Historic first use of sul- pheric ether as an anestheic to patient by Dr. Crawford W. Long jo8 Georgia. 1867—Treaty signed with Rus- ‘sia for the purchase of Alaska’ | for famed sculptor, | per acre. L 1870—15th Amendment tb the, ratified equal j 65 rights to whites and colored. 1884 — Height of Cincinnati’s Felix X. Gygax ederick E. Uhl} ML, Floyd B. Odium of Jersey City, 'four-days’ rioting—beeause of the : noted investment banker,| ight sentences meted out by local ;, Mich., 53 years Courts to murderers. ; 1918 — Countrywide daylight savings first in effect. 1920 (25 years ago) Federal Grain Corporation authorized to of Boston, stant to the | Secretary of born Grand : FERA. Ranides Mich eaeraccl sell 5 million barrels flour to buy A daughter was born this’ <- = — od a ean ngekurore: is morning to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph! 7 ine ee es Folk in their home in’ the rear! TODAY’S HOROSCOPE Lphippines: of 412 Margaret street. i | 1941—U. S. seizes Axis shipping Self-confidence this R. M. Ellison, manager of the lodge at Mungon Island, }t2is day. Today yecessful | There is danger {disappointment ing he has had a most. s Begining April hina new | their opportunit schedule will be. adopted@\in the ‘strained self-confidence is apt to! evelop a self-satisfied operation of planes between Key West and Miami, it was an-|The later hours nounced today. p> }the “best © results. Abcut 70 percent of owners of : homesteads in Monroe Count! leave applied for exemp}ion, Be weekly. en today “Miss Cherryblossom, or, A Maid of Tokyo", will be present- ed again by the students of the Key West Junior®enior High | School Monday is the date set ‘for the second presentation. Leo B. Warren, who wag direc. tor of social activities in La Casa Marina during the winter, left yesterday for Miami. Today The Citizen says in an editorial paragraph: “A returned explorer tells that among certain African _ tribe: young girls are starved for sev eral days and then given a good beating before they are married. A foretaste of the joys to come, as it were.” Subscribe to The Citizen. Your Grocer SELLS That GOO) STAR * BRAND AMERICAN and CUBAN } Try A Pound T, 1 will 'natives from making most off tn, Subscribe to The Citizen—25c) s REAL ICE is MORE ECONOMICAL... It’ THOMPSON ENTERPRISES, mc. Phone No. 8 wereseevvcereveersos is the index to'in American ports. | 1942—Germans bomb Moscow and shell Leningrad. 1943—“Second stage’ of Allies’ “‘Tuniisian campaign ends. 1944 — Heavy fighting inside e Indian border. *s natives make that pride, hinder or the, for igs, unre- RESULTS FROM COLD conceit. | of the day give| DETROIT.—Frostbite is a form of mortification due to the action | ‘of cold in cutting off the blood ‘and ears. ‘PLACE ‘YOUR REFRIGERATION ona BASIS and.you will get GUARANTEED Refrig- eration Service. 's Healthy and Safe... It’s PURE (ICE DIVISION) ‘Key West, ‘Fi. Dr. ‘Nichcls was unexpectedly » ae lage Dist $7,200,000—about be, acents 5)" of so-ca, pply from the fingers, toes, nose} | “8:00 pam:—Shelicraft Class. - <li, ‘The “leaf butterfly is so like fat first glance. LEGALS NOTICE PP INTENTION atte Sete ron or Low VPASNAGE OW SPROTAL tt Notice ts hereby given that, suant to the req of the State of Florida, as w at the general election in yn will be made by the Legisiatare to the of Florida 7 held during year i the Re AN ACT to be Rewintra of “Key viding for a Klectors And said City of Key on West We ida, For All Bleétions Held in The Year 1945, [re Viding for the Dates of Open ing and Closing of the Reis Books, Ming Yor © for the the Registration ing the | Registrate Declaring Vo List of, Qualified And/Or Voters of auld Key West, Florida, P tor the Exemption sons Service From Operati Requiring Re Act and Re t or Parts 6f Laws in Cont Herewith. Dated at Key West 28th day of Mareh, A | J marso,1945 i Notice undersigned, Wil apply Florida. legisiature jaw | ment of . Acts {Stance of Which Hhe: (1) To re-establish the bow ries of the Everglades Drainag District by correcting certain rors and omissions in the present existing boundartes; To make avatlabl drainage easements ‘Trustees of Internal im Fund tn their deeds; ¢ for the debt To grant | the tien, tain the existin the Everglades | the interest and for t soil conservation and ws ax well ax for drainaye tien of lands rrainage or. Acts of 1231 ing th and otherwise forcement and « y English leaf when-it wings are folded that /Died Moreh 3, 107. Tits impossible to distinguish it! pers Died ‘Sept. 23, 1938. 1963—-Mary W. Calkuna, | Wellesley pitiosephy peveteiagy professor, bern Hartford. Gama. Died Feb. 27, 1990. MARGARE i ’ JEAN PERN. 1888 — De Wolf Hooper. | jector his day, gor Mew pap vem. 4 Maret SBAI oo eee vet by Florence ® mowrer, or By: MARK Rt Attest: kK 145 —_-—— ~ Fcc st tet TF HE HAD HIS LIFE TO LIVE OVER... . +» he'd do what he had intended to do. He'd save enough of his income to care for himself and family when ears ing power ends. An adequate SAVINGS accOURt Prog: am leaves little room for regret. It's » one, as long as you have an income THE FLORIDA NATIONAL SANK AT KEY WEST Member Federal Deposit Insusnes Corporation YOUR BANKING INSTITUTION ve: too late t | | | }