The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 4, 1945, Page 2

PAGE TWO a The Key West Citizen SUBSCRIPTION RATES IRTISING RATES F “ SPECIAE NOTION IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZER 1. More Hotels and Apartments. 2% Beach and Bathing Pavillon. 3. Airports—Land and Sea. 4 Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. Community Auditorium. { ee eee MAKING MORE ATOMIC BOMBS 1ac- by atomic revealed The revelation that our tories are producing bombs, President Truman, dication that this country i of the world in the production of these devastating agents. Mr. Truman said that the bombs duced might be scrapped if agreement with may be ends to keep ahead pro- nations leads to a feeling of safety and security. In addition, he expressed confidence that this result is attainable and that the world will have permanent peace. While the other President expresses cc dence in the future, his remarks should not | be taken as an indication that the Unitec States will trust itself exclusively to words good will. Until some international lice force is available to keep the peace of the world, it will for dividual nations to arm themselves in pro- Ith and responsibility. po- be necessary in- portion to their we: SHOULD STAY HOME A dispatch from London says that an American committee is expected in Great uin for the of protesting the tnglish policy in Palestine. Included among those listed as on the smen who have no business Whatever on the junket. Even other Americans, listed as private citizens, could contrbiute to international good will by permitting the government of the Unit- ed States to handle the It is safe to say that if a committee of eminent British citizens happened to come 4o the United States for the purpose of pro- in the Philippines, would be given and told purpose committee are three Congre matter. or the testing our policy that they Bronx cheer elsewhere, proverbial where to go. NECK BROKEN BUT LIVES 1 There was a time when a broken nec Was synonymous with instant death. This does not seem to be the inevit- of such an accident to- Salt Lake boy able day. City consequence An illustration comes from where an eleven-year-old was injured in a soccer game, and two days later complained of pains in his head. Ane that his neck had been broken but a doctor explained that a dislo amination at a hospital showed ed vertebra be- came wedged and there was little pressure on the spinal cord. Don't read some. write poetry, but don’t Death is the ticket upon which believ- pa but tried, are in a hurry to go there now, ers enter adise, few, unless sorely The suggestion comes that the United “States should adopt 2 nutritional program designed to guarantee an adequate diet to families without sufficient income to bu .it on the market. If this keeps up we will ‘all become wards of the government stead of an integral better part of it. Too -much paternalism weakens a nation, in- -stead of benefiting it. and then we will be dependent and controlled, in- taken as an In- | ite W but walked home | SHARK’S 72-HOUR VIGIL No other creature in the world has so stories told about it as the reporting the rescue of four om a raft, a press service sent a local dateline this gem: days and a night a giant wam around the raft. The men, ered badly from thirst and cold, arful that the giant fish would at- raft, they said. (To whom did - it?) At times he swam so close could have put their hands on him.” sefore relating the experience of J. (Pilot) Roberts, chief clerk in the tax assessor’s office; Claude AI- y many years United States immi- officer in Key West, and now re- , and the writer, who were surrounded chools of sharks while the three clung » an overturned boat, let us consider the - of the shark. Nothing on land and nothing else in is voracious as the shark. It eats, yrges and devours again. It t, and, except when drowsins -on the move, searching for food. the shark, which swam around r two days and one night—72 it was circling the In a a under “For two voraci ca ve on while Id a hog, the most voracious thing . circle a sty, out in the wide, open hours without eating any- W rould a hungry man circle a res- he -knows food,is in it, hours and not go elsewhere*to-took 1? voracity and rapacity too of the well illustrated when, in 1924, rhinodon typicus, the largest of swam in toward Boot Key. to the northeast, to die, but was cd before he died. The rhinodon, Was thi rant, because re narks, a male, be reconstructed for the New York Museum f Natural History. The towing had bare- ly b ‘ore schools of sharks attacked rhinodon, un be the his sides and gorging them. saw as many as eight sharks at a time y up the sides of the rhinodon and at its flesh. And they saw sharks, tomachs could not hold any more, return to the attack, swallow ot flesh, disgorge and attack again, monstrating their dominant- instinct devour, devour, Imagine that shark swimming around its 72-hour vigil without Tugmen said roree, our, ratt during Roberts, Albury and the writer had ish aboard the boat when it capsized, ent from the sinking fish-attract- boat was a 15-foot dingey with mutton sail. The ,mast was un- because it Was carrying the bow ard the bottom, and set adrift. Within 10 minutes so ‘many sharks had gathered d the boat, Roberts cried out: ’This is too much for me!” and climb- the dingey, which was down to its rs, grabbed an oar and stood on the forced a foot under water by t. and began to paddle, and while paddled he counted 17 sharks. Look at that big brute there!” ted. “He's longer than the boat.” - and the writer looked to where s pointing and saw a sulky tiger really y longer than the The stepped, tow thwart, he he sho as Watch him!” his r darted sr, but the writer cried, clap- rht hand on the water. The tiger away and returned a few minutes another clap caused his dorsal swiftly through the surface like And the tiger didn’t re- ping fin to cut Roberts and the writer knew, because of their experience on the Union Bank, now Trumbo Island, that that clap like the loudest thunder to the covered sounded The sharks left after they had de- fen mpt to attack Albury and the writer, who remained in the water the entire time the sharks circled the dingey. The man-eating shark is the carcha- redon rondeleletii, found chiefly in the In- dian Ocean. feet eet, The largest now are only 40 but according to teeth and bones of found in Florida’s rock and bone phosphate deposits, they attained a length 90 feet in the Tertiary period when all of what is now Florida was under water. But that another story. The tory is that we have no man-eating shark in these waters, and no shar the species, of is 2 hours without eating. In countries where illiteracy is high- the people are least prosperous, est, towed to Key West by a tug to | biting huge chunks out of | red all the dead fish and made no at- } at all of the | | 150 species that would swim around a raft THE KEY WEST CITIZEN CAR came up the driveway, and parked in the curve by} the porch, The door opened and| a little black dog jumped out | eane flying across the yard.| Ciose behind him came man with a slight limp. Anne watched them her heart beating high excitement. Her cheeks flushed and her eyes shone. John came and stood beside the chair, just looking at her, saying noth- ing, as if words might break the spell that held them. a “Well, I must say—you’ ve been} long enough coming! “Yau've been long sending for me!” “I wouldn’t have now if your mother hadn’t told me you are a very stubborn fellow! Now what do you mean by planning to go) | flying off to the ends of the earth} without ever discussing the mat- ter with me?” “Would young Mrs. Wayne Mc- Dowell be interested in my} whereabouts?” She looked up and their eyes met. “Oh, is Wayne to be married? she as nocently. He came around to stand in front of her, his mouth a grim hard line. “Look, Ann let's stop sparring. Why did you send for me?” “You said you wouldn’t come unless I did—and I couldn’t be- cause I read that Madeline Car ton had been divorced and I was afraid that you—that you——” “Anne!” His hands were on her shoulders, making her face him. “Anne, do you mean—— he looked at him squarely, asting all fear and pride away. “I mean that I love you, John Lowell! What are you going to about it?” He stood there for as if stunned, then he wild whoop of joy. “Do? What | do you think I’m going to do?”) And she w in his arms where! she had wanted to be for a long, long time. ( enough ed in- moment gave a a ee DAILY REMINDERS | By | Standard Press Association | EEE TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES Phila- author 1736—Thomas Godfre. delphia poet-playwright, of “The Prince of Parthia”, first play written by an American- born to be produced on profes- sional’ stage, born Philadelphia. Died Aug "4.1763. 1818—Jotin Le Conte, physi- cist, professor-president of the University of Georgia, born Lib- erty county, Ga. Died April 29, 1891. 1818—iWiliam W. Loring, not- ed officer in war with Mexico, Confederate general, army head after the Wilmington, N. C. Died in New York, Dec. 30, 1886. 1845—100 years ago—John A. Cockerill, drummer boy at 15 in Union army, journali: war correspondent, old New York World editor-in-chief, a great fighting editor, born Adams county, Ohio. Died April 10, 1896. 1861 — Lillian Russell, comic opera star and beauty, born in Clinton, Died June 6, 1922. famed stage Towa. TODAY IN HISTORY | 1783 — Gen. Washington bids farewell to his officers in New York; each bidding ,him fare- well in return, with moistened eyes, “I most devoutly wish that your latter da may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious j and honorable.” | 1867 — The National Grange, | Patrons of Husbandry, organiz- ed in Washington by Dept. of Agriculture employe { 1915 Henry Ford’s “Peace Ship” sails out of New York to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas. American-French Army of Occupation crosses into Germany people _ the: m more astonished than lat sight. 1925 — Some seekers found Florida. 1932 — First band of hunger | marchers, some 25,000 men, and children, ve in alar 600,000 camped home out in National Associa- Manufacture opening convention in New York, de- clares itself in poiitics to rid country of the New Deal. 1942—U. S. air forces make first attack on Italy proper. 1942 — Tokio broadeasts Japs finished mopping-up in the Phil- ippines. | 1943—U. S. carrier planes tack the Marshall Islands. | 1944—Americans and Ge | battle for the Saar Basin. ( TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS Maj. Gen. Frank D. Merrill, former commander of Merrill's Marauders, of Burma fame, born Woodville, Mass., 42 years ago. Frank A. Banks, civil en- gineer, builder of the Grand Chapter 30 ) tall] t Anne’s lip began to tremble. iY lanning| s | commotion ¥ {in * States. !gagements of born ‘retired, | ice ‘Ohio, 74 ye had released her and stood a to look at her she realized that this was not the bit- i taciturn man she had known or so long. This was the man of he had gotten a glimpse afternoon on the stairway, the man of whom his mother had written: “I wish you ut have agwi him when he w it! But I couldn't! I I've been waiting for you ne, John!” what are we waiting longer for? Come on. Let's go!” He took the rug away from her | knees and held out his hand. She| Y |had a fee g of utter panic for a moment. Her so long un- used, felt like He said, Anne, darling, 's nothing to be afraid of!” She put h him one tr laughing, half t slowly. hand in his, gave! V realizing that nething 1 was going on, gan to b. loudly. Mrs. Win- slow came to the door and Mr. Winslow came around the corner of the house aT see what the as. They were just time to see Anne take five and fall into John’s arms. y came running, the tears coursing down Mrs. Winslow’s che “I knew she needed you, John. I should have sent for you sooner.” Her father said, y mo Anne —I'll never answe be a ir exuberant thoughts | herent again, they plans. They would be| n the little cones Dr. Conover, sur- ended by the peo-| just as soon as) his assign- thought he weeks, It| 3 roune led a ple Anne loved, John turned from ment. He might six seas. gone ON be adie Niles Now | On Transport Ship | CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—Woodrow Niles, seaman, first Newton street Key West, during the war aboard cruiser USS Vincennes, whose crew now is performing | one of its most pleasant tasks ! that of bringing high-point Paci- fic veterans back home to the | ela 1401 served the being assigned to the Carpet” fleet which in more than 250 of the hips engaged in carrying vans back from the Pacific, | the Vincennes had stalked the Japs across more than 125,000 miles of ocean in her 16 months of action. The ship was credited with sinking a Jap cruiser in fan Bernadino Strait: in one of the most unusual surface en- the war. It a_pitch-black when the Jap ship w and the crew related afterward that it never had a chance to} fire a shot, so surprising was} the Vincennes’ attack. That task was accomplished in less than 20 minutes. JOSEPH A. PENT GIVEN PROMOTION (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, N. Y.—Joseph A. Pent, son of Mrs. Carrie Pent, has been promoted to Tec-5 Mr. Pent’s Key West address is 2423 Patterson Ave. He has been doing duty in Iceland for} eleven months. j Before larg- vet night sighted, | was ACTUALLY GRAVEYARDS NEW YORK. werld actually animals and Oil fields of the are graveyards of} plants which have} been subjecied to millions of of heat and pressure be- th the earth’s surface. \ Coulee Dam, born Saco, Maine, 62 years ago. Deanna Durbin actress-singer, in ‘Winnipeg, Canada, 23 | years ago. Roy E. Tomlinson, president National Biscuit Co., New York, | born in Chicago, 68 years ago. | Maj. Gert. Walter L. Reed, son of the conqueror of fever, born Ft. Apache, ; Ariz., 68 years ago. Dr. John W. Kerr, retired, ; noted U. S. Public Health aaa official, born Grand Rapids, rS ago. Rev. Charles C. Mere editor of The Christian Century, Chicago, born Harrison, Ohio, 71 years ago. TODAY'S HOROSCOPE Today's native will sionate and probably yellow be p: compas- jsionate. The mind may be given; to the gratification of the! senses. or the pushing of a self- | ish idea. There seems to be some ambition for power and wealth mainly for selfish rea-|{ sons, and yet there is a good | heart underneath. would be Thanksgiving when he returned. “In more ways than one!” Anne | laughed. “Yes,” John answered, “for you'll come walking down that e to meet me, Anne. By that time you'll be strong enough for it. You must try very hard to be walking when I return.” “Of course, I shall John. Noth- ing can hold me back now—and with you waiting for me at the altar, I know T shall have no trouble walking to. meet you.” ND so John flew away across 42 the sea to write a writer as well as a military hero. Anne was busy getting her trousseau together and planning the future. She sent to New k for a billowing white gown and veil and when “they arrived ie took them to show to Cath- | erine Lowell. “Do you knov “this is the third wedding gown I've bought. Did ever a girl have so hard a time getting | band? The big, red-haired woman laughed. “It was fate, Anne, sav- ing you for John—and for me! Ar this time there'll be no hitches, for John is the deter- mined Sort of a man that will let nothing keep him from the wom- | an he loves! I have no doubt that | you'll wear this wedding gown!” “And you are coming to the wedding. I refuse to have it with- out you!” “Nothing shall keep me away,” Catherine, promised. “I am as de- | termindd as Jon!” At last'there came a day when Anre stood at the window and looked out over the fields, cov- ered now with a sparkling bla | ket of snow. Her heart sang jo: fully: “John morrow Tomorrow! And beyond tomor- row there stretched a_ long, lovely vista of days and years | during which they would make their life together. THE END. ANTONIO. ARANGO GIVEN DISCHARGE Antonio Arango, Jr., Store. | Keeper 1c, 1209 Division street, i was recently given an honorable scharge from the Naval Serv- ice at the Separation Center at Jacksonville, Fla. OIL PRODUCTION -About 400,000 bar- crude oil CHICAGO. rels of the the war came from fields discov ered since U. §. entry in the war States in United aboard Keport’ shows spent 13. billign years. RADIO PROGRAM ANNOUNCED BY STATION Subject to Change WKWF Where to Listen— 1600 On Your Dial Mutual Broadcasting System (* Designates Network ee) Tuesday, December 4th 6 P.M. to Midnight News 160 Club Fulton Lewis, Jr.* Moonlight and Stuff Arthur Hale, News intiele of Sports* Leave It to Mike* Adygntures of Falcon* Gabttel Heatter Real''Life Storie: Forum of the Air* Overseas Report* The Better Half* All the News” Orrin Tucker Orchestra* Musi Ne Dance Orchestra Wednesdzy, Dez 7 ALM. mber Sth to Noon 7:00 8:25 9:00 9:15 9:55 10:00 10:15, 10:30 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 Sunrise Serenade News Frazier Hunt* Shady Valley Folks* WKWF Program Resume Church of the Wildwood Waltz Time Fun With Music* Cecil Brown, News* Elsa Maxwell* Take I: Easy Time* Lindlahd* Noon te 6 P.M. William Lang* Morton Downey* Barnet’s Orchestra Coast Guard Band* News Luncheon with Lopez* John J. Anthony* Cedric Foster* Jane Cowl* Queen for a Day* Griffin Reporting* Listen to Leibert Remember* Music of Manhattan Erskine Jchnson* The Johnson Family* Melody Hour* Peter Howe* Superman* Captain Midnight* Tom Mis :00 ° Gass Sasnsassa @SeeESHReE SHE SHE SOHE Ss te bo aSo ”” Anne confided, | a hus-/ will be home to- | produced | ! daily in the United States during 51 DECEMBER 4. 1945 = NAVY LOWERS DAYS GONE BY FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF DECEMBER 4. 1935 The West, is Red Cross drive in Key which has been extended, nearing the quota it was an nounced this afternoon. Four hun- dred is the number of member- ships a ned to Key W the number has now re Boxes in the rear tez Cigar Compa | were destroyed in a day, but only slight damage done to the building . of the Cor ny'’s building > the story | that would make him famous as | Work on all WP. y West were discontinued tema Two basketball games will be | played Friday night in the high school gymnasium. Chief game between the Park Tigers and the Busy Bee Bake! is Archie Lowe left today | ami on a bus for «Mi ss t Frank H! Gato, who had been visiting relatives in Cuba retura- ed yesterday. Key West Garden Club will hold a meeting tomorrow morn ing beginning at 10 o’clock, Im the Woma clubhouse on Division | street. Benjamin Russell who is cor nected with the United States Na val forces in Newport, arriv- ed today to spend two weeks with relatives. i, s Phyllis Hill, who had be ing Mr. and Mrs. Avery Johnson, left yesterday for her home in Jacksonville. Today the Citizen says in an ed itorial paragraph “How some | tomobiles while they are deeply jin debt is something honest men fail to unde rstand. LEGALS Curr COURT OF ft SUDICIAL CIRCE OR MONROE COL * OF FLORIDA, EN CHAN- sv { CERY, Case No. 14 | WARREN REYNOLDS I One LANDY Defendant PUBLICATION vs. DIV ISSIE BEATRICE ORDER OF TO Jessie Beatrics 2156—C—-Street Olmstat Bland Apartment Clerk of the Monroe Coun (sd) Florence i. $ Deputy Cle S. CARO, for Plaintiff. nov20- hy THOMAS icitor ATNL9NS COURT OF THE NEM JUDICIAL CIRCE ND FOR MONROB COUNTY, OF PLORIDA. IN CHAN- IE CIRCUL * Case No. | DONALD ERWIN ¢ D EDITH # PER OF PUBLICATION Sarah Edith Bliz Oo Gler Atlanta > th Grant r four consecutive e Key West Citizen, a | paper published in Key West, ida De and Ordered this | of November 1 (SEAL) Flore 9th aay Bs By: (sd) Flore THOMAS S. CARO, Solicitor for the Plaintiff, ane No. DORRIS ELTAAM ET Plaintiff DIVORC JOHN RICHARD EV ANS, EVANS, ORDER OF PUBLIC STON Otherwise therein will | Your Grocer SELLS That GOOD STAR * BRAND | AMERICAN | and CUBAN COFFEE Try A Pound Today! | i people can buy au-| ‘ion Jan | ACTION | POINT SCORES FOR RELEASE 73 NOB ENLISTED ARE ELI- GIBLE FOR RELEASE UNDER DECEMBER DATE, LIEUT. COMDR. REES ANNOUNCES Ai Suton m 41 to § NOB ch. ted men fr 38 idition to the Lt. sonnel Command Officer, yannouced, A. Ree disclosed thsi \ ad been to re- Yon Dee. 1 ar Nov lowered Jan. 1. make ap- addit pal No res ia al made for . Under will be 15 and 36 on reductions will 150,000 for scores beyonc the 22 the score 37 on Dee Score pro me ximately 1 tha ed as 39 0} be ible re duction of vio yuNc and 38 on ar will wate s (except WT) CB, xcept MM) CB, tewards, usly anne tende sary nd bakers. onnel of the fol- lowing ratings, hitherto ineligible f {emobilization under the formula becar the need rto for their services placed sible ships nlisted p ssifications, Jan. 1 on scores effec cle ae point tive on th She { trol, 38 points; SK 44 points (male), (X) Key points (male), (1) Punch Machine Oper 29 points 1 Corpsmen with tional or phys assigned to duty in Nay Hosps or Naval , 44 points (male) and Sp. (X) points (male) Punch Operate 38 a points (emal Card Accountir ator, 44 point (female); Hosy specialty i ical therapy. continental Special Hospit 29 guaints (female), nortation 44 ts (female ~ Officers of the gories who, having ficient ponits f were hitherto J lease except on approval of Chief of Naval Persoanel, | automatically for 1 without reference | Chief of Naval Personnel Shore Patrol Officers: Officer specialists in IBM or other elec- i trie tabulating machines; postal officers: officer graduates of Na- val schools: oriental language officers: officer ndidates; en- listed personnel under instruc- tion in Naval schools of oriental languages; officers specializing in physical or upational therapy and who are assigned to duty in continental } Hosps or Naval Special Hospitals. Men in foregoing categor- ies will. however, like other per- sonnel, be subject to retention on active for reasons of mili- | tary necessity, for a maximum of 90 davs beyond the date of their eligibility for discharge. Sp. occuy following cate- acquired suf- neligible for eligible s to the oc the duty. COLD PREPARATIONS . Noxe Drops Directed ELIT OLN, H. E. CANFIELD, M. D. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat SPECIALIST Also Glasses Fitted Office Hours, 7 to 9 p.m., and by | Appointment, Phone !Galey’s Office, 417 E: $16 Will open a Special Per- sonal Checking Account without obligation to |} maintain any fixed bal- ance, provided as many as [ee checks are written in any one month. vl As much or as little may lt be kept in the account as | desired, and the cost ! only 10 cents for ed check written. For further information call at the bank or phone for folder. The FLORIDA NATIONAL BANK at Key West Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation