The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 25, 1946, Page 4

. ‘ Ree ‘eee aye cig ts OSES oiiasmne saemnennenet amnemmnene aemeeremeetnetn a Meee fAGE FOUK ~ FROM THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ; | " By DAVID G. BAREUTHER AP Newsteatures Writer EW YORK.—The LaSalle Hotel fire in Chicago, followed in only four days by the Hotel Ia., both at the beginning of a record vacation season in which hotels throughout the country ate. booked to capacity, point! up the terror of panic in public places, One of the most tragic aspects ¥+= - of the Chicago fire was the num- | will have time to consider other ber of persons killed in leaps from | @seape. windows despite firemen’s shout- ed warnings that they were safe in their rooms. Other victims | ager-of the National Board of Fire were found to have rushed out} Underwriters, reports that fires into smoke-filled, super-heated|are causing an average of 27 deaths every day in the year and ; dof Fire Un-|that the rate is increasing. He| derwriters, reporting that panic !urfes vacationers to prepare them- | takes more lives than actual ‘selves for fire emergencies with hallways where they perished. The National Bo: Canfield disaster at Dubuque, Warning to Vacationers W.. E. Mallalieu ,general man- flames, warns that one breath of |at least as much consideration as lethal heated air can kill long be- peed give to their travel folders. fore flames reach a victim. A Dangerous Impulse Awakened at night by the smell of smoke ,the average person has} ; je a natural impulse to rush to the! the more pertinent. door o fhis room and open it to| see what is happening. If a fire has attained much headway the hall can be charged with air as hot as 800 to 1,000 degrees. This explosive air can rush into a room}; and instantly ignite everything in| its path, including one’s clothing. | The first act of a vacationer, ori hazardous are itied together. other sleeper caught by fire, ‘Preparedness prevents excite- ment,” he adds. The number of resort hotels jand tourist houses that are wood- nm structures makes this advice Almost every traveler, at one jtime or another, has occupied a jroom where the only means of secondary escape has been a :knotted rope, hanging near a rad- iator .Experience has’ shown that {only an athlete can use such a jdevice with safety. _Even more eets and blankets Safety engineers should be to feel the top part of »point’out that the average person, ; a door panel. If it is hot, or if the |especially women and children, doorknob feels hot, don’t attempt !cannot be expected to accomplish | te open the door. brace your foot against the bottom ; the feat of lowering themselve: If the door -does not feel hot, or jumping safely from windows. After studies of recent hotel and open it very slightly. Holdjfires the engineers said that if your hand over the crack and many of the victims had remained keep your face turned away. If,in their rooms with the door: you feel a rush of air or any sense ,closed and h of pressure, close the door quick-! windows for fr | 1 leaned out of the’ h air, they would ly. It takes several minutes for have been saved. any door to burn through and you If a hallway is filled witn VACATIONERS DRAW WARNING TRAGIC HOTEL FIRES What You Can Do In Case Of Fire AP Newsfeatures ‘N fundamental fire rules, upon which all authorities agree and which can be remem- bered by vacationers in crowd- ed hotels as well as by apart- ment dwellers and stay-at- homes, are: 1, Keep calm. Your life and others’ depend upon this. 2. Sound the alarm for the fire department first, then no- tify others. Every second counts. 3. Never shout “fire” in a crowded public place. 4 Walk out, if you can. Don’t run, Running causes panic. 5. Don’t jump, except as a last resort to avoid actual burning. 6. Never open a hot door. Heated air kills before flames do. 7. Cover nose and mouth with a wet cloth. 8. Crawl along the floor to avoid lethal fumes. 9. Close all doors and win- dows after you to check the spread of flames and trapping of others. 10. If clothing is burning, lie down; roll in a rug or blanke' smoke, but not with impassable heated fumes, tie a wet towel over our mouth and nose and crawl long on your hands and knees. Smoke is less dense near the floor. How , a handkerchief is not a !gas mask and the American Red Cross reports that many have per- ished in fires because of the mis- taken belief that it is. Danger of carbon monoxide poisoning lurks in every fire. Postponed All Robert J. Jerry Demolay |} meetings have been postponed! for the present due to the polio | situation, according to an an-! nmouncement made by Chapter Adviser Harry Knight. The Weather FORECAST | Key West and vicinity: Partly | cloudy with few showers and! thundershowers today, tonight and’ Wednesday. Moderate north- east to east winds. . Florida: Partly cloudy today, tonight and Wednesday, with few afternoon thundershowers in ex- treme south portion. East Gulf of Mexico and Jack- sonville through the Florida Straits: Partly cloudy weather ex- | cept few showers and thunder-| showers extreme south portions. Moderate northeast to east winds | today, tonight and Wednesday. Jacksonville to Apalachicola: No small craft or storm warnings | have been issued. REPORT Key West, Fla. June 25, 1946 Observation taken at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time (City Office) Temperatures Highest yesterday Lowest last night Mean Normal ‘. PRECIPITATION Rainfall, 24 hours ending 8:30 a.m., inches 0.71 RELATIVE HUMIDITY 72% TOMORROW'S ALMANAC (Daylight Savings Time) Sunrise ne ---- 6:39 a.m. Sunset S anes O19 p.m, Moonrise 3:03 a.m. | Moonset 5:43 p.m. | TOMORROW'S TIDES Naval Base High Tide Low Tide 6:50 a.m. 0:12 a.m, 8:35 p.m. 1:53 p.m. oo I N&O In the 17th century England, | the hangman of Dumfries was entitled to dip his iron ladel into | each bag of produce as his pay from the inhabitants of the | || JACKSON SQUARE U.S.O. PROGRAMS WEDNESDAY 8:30 p.m. Photo study group. 9 p.m. Voice recordings. THURSDAY 1:00 p.m. Deep sign at the J, USO in advance. 9:00 p.m. Movie quiz. FRIDAY 6:00 p.m. SPECIAL G.S.O. (Girls Service Organiza-} tion) meeting — weiner } roast at the Club. Dance } called off because of po- lio epidemic. SATURDAY 1:00 p.m. Bottom fishing—girls and sailors sign in ad- vance. 9:00 p.m. Feature movie, “Home Across the Bay.” SUNDAY 9:45 a.m. Java Club. 12:45 a.m. “Marine Life Adventure” along the keys. 1:00 p.m. | Gilmore motor launch party toSand Key.GS.O.\j; g@ eS eee eeeeeee sign in advance. 8:30 p.m. | Coffee Hour. 9:00 p.m. j Movie. Nearly all ant instincts, includ- jing those that might pass for fishing— | son Square | Siegfried Line | Mostly Junk Il BERLIN (AP).—The Sieg- | fried line—Hitler’s famous | but futile west wall—isn’t worth ripping up, Allied offi- cers. have. concluded. | Many of the emplacements now outmoded will be ignor- | ed, mute reminders to the Germans for whatever they want to make of it. | The anti-aircraft batteries } and mine fields of the west | wall have all been destroyed | however, Lieutenant, General Lucius D, Clay, U.S. deputy military governor, said that nothing of any war potential would be allowed to remain intact. 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She al- so finds time for a lot of things most people long to do, but fail She owns a midtown Manhat- tan house, filled with antique Georgian English furniture and} When a thing is done, let it go, runs it with an efficiency any housekeeper might envy. Even during the war years her satin- wood and silver shone. She serves om the Writers Board, the Council Wine and the Board of Governors of the Women’s National Republi- can Club, She takes in a lot of weeks to a sick child whose moth- | “It’s all a process cf selection—! of-making -up your mind what ting a lot done, see Miss Kerr’s| you want and using your time program. To begin ‘vith she plans} and strength for that. The only —long term and short term. - 2 tliing.I ever wanted to do was to Knows just ‘about where she will be at my office, at the usual hours, until that date. Light fiction was the be any time tomorrow. Makes de- |} thing for which I seemed to have cisions now. Right after bre I certainly had no mes- fast she starts the house—writes | sage to give the world. “Whatever I've done has been and does the day’s telephoning. helped by the fact that I never By ten she is at her desk for a i |two-hour stint that produces’ \000 words. When the telephone |rings she answers it herself, and q Y Lif, T | goes rae back to work, Says it}, —— ° OO | is much quicker than re-telephon- and Enjoy our Life, ing the people who called. Using} DE that system she whipped out her;—Exp latest and current novel—“Love | Story Incidental”—in two months. | Even for her that set a record. Declares Novelist Sophie Kerr begin here es for living, from which emerge jher plots. | Two of the things you notice \first about Sophie Kerr ate. her {shapely graceful hands and her Most people don’t notice your ‘step is light and swift. ‘She mistakes anyway. They're inter- | dresses with chic smart suits and ested in themselves and don’t {Simple frocks accented with jew care what you do as long as |¢ls and topped with colorful hats. you don’t interfere with them. | Sophie Kerr was born in Den- ton, Md., where her father owned | get the lesson out of it and go and tear by not arguing. Arguing | Versity of Vermont. Wrote some ; years. seems to me a kind of expansion TOMances as a girl and sold a of egotism, so when people begin | few. and Food Society “As to the house, remember {the Chronicle Telegraph. Later | on it. | at once. If you make a mistake, | don’t worry. You can sell or | give it away as soon as you can | afford to replace it.” j For the rest of the secret of get- I hereby inform my patients that I will city until the 30th of June, 1946. k-|] me the opportunity to serve you. : instructions for the cook and maid | Greyhound bus. the - helicopter’ will.Jand at a clover- jleaf highway. intérsection elas she is bored. 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" still she finds time for things like an orderly room always looks jjoined the staff of the Woman's reading every afternoon for two ciean and a disorderly one al- |Home Companion and eventually] been invaluable to me,” she : s noth-| ways looks dirty. When it |Pecame its managing ditor.} says. “It taught me how to get erjis out of town. How does ane comes to furnishing, I think it Wrote nights and Sundays till she] along with people in business be Aes ter? gone ty a mous he pays to buy the best you can pal up a market for her work! and gave me habits of works ook a long time to get the, Cpe too ‘youch $$ s rae angwer, for Sophie Kerr is not in-{ °2 don't try tp set, too } clined to talk about herself. But finally, after dinner one evening, | NOTICE TO MY PATIENTS For those of you that wish to have your records, I will Thereby thank all those who have honored me by giving E. 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