The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 31, 1947, Page 3

mua OCTOBER i “$667 \ aE REY W “FROM ‘WITCHES TO rong 4 2d ers’ ght :@lothing ‘deem ites seb attice : vot the Sayxetgn (Mine of Repub- ‘ Ration few gnin- whistle blew .be- the morning shift. One, otis Wilken oot sees ithro window and .ordere: ki ‘opened... "The other two, tboth’ masked, entered the office : aad ordered the -two men ‘inside et . date ;the toilet and locked :the " bay ‘doer. When they :battered ithe °° ||) » ifteor. down .a few minutes ater, the andi had. ‘gone, taking -pay blue} . 7 venvelopes for “719 cog] .miners e campaign jhas pie aather-. oo acta ant ink momentum singe ;the war's: OOM: OH Pheak des The “oil beetle” reaches ..ma- soy smart sees there - was' i e usters could ¢ 4 ” bees’ bbut watch. ophe. anecesagry org ton, D.C. They . are ‘charged saith | eggs and honey: mentation of industry in. thea eriminal consditacy 6 restrain dors under circumstances. which ernergency shad anade ) smanopolies: «nde -througn. dixing comenission | ‘wiplate :the Sheman. Act. temporarily ‘legal. » ‘yrates charged by realtors. One uit *has ‘been .commenced Living Costs'.a ‘Tasgat he «h ae | whieh may -sérve as.a-test for this Now, ‘however, ‘the division has | “The thigh: cast .af :building Ma-.\ i oe cases. “Phis action, filed 122 pending cases. Fifteen .of'f{erials is a unajor issue ‘in ‘three! in the ‘federal court in Delaware. ones Cont ls before tthe oe vf tthe aa ending neta rae oe prevent. the U. S. eT - ourt; p- Co. purchasin , thropgh a ‘Whe’ sharpest tight is ‘against | cum . . eharged “with -the nae ‘subsidiary, the teat . }prices of food, clothing and- hous-! Saetin 4 ‘fixing ‘the «price ‘of eyp-/:Steel .Corp.,: largest -steel fab- ing. “Attorney ‘General Tom .C. 1m :boand; (2) Cement dnstityt:, ticator.an:the West Coast. —- Clark last August: ordered: the | charged swith rice fixing din sthe| oe Directories cement industry; :(3) ‘Line “Mate- 4 ‘Fhe’ anti-trust division is aéhi- au { joins. aimed at ‘thet high Sost ‘Ofil vial -Go.,: charged: with Poteet ovine eving considerable Mle in eae " : ngoling. and’. price’ fixing in the ating .interlocking Miata ; : ‘The ,preliminaries..of that ibat-’ “dzop-out” electric’, fi jeliminating he division .digcov- jalc, now «ake cheing fought -out,| “Phe Federal - Trade. Commis- |ers- that: dixectors of slarge .direc- rbefoxe .a federal grand jury in |-jon thas diled against: praetically'|tors .of large corporations ‘are “Chicago. Scores ‘of “meat -Bnd'lthe entire ‘steel ‘industry . a..cOm~ ‘serving-on ‘the ‘board of one:or ‘dairy industry officials” ‘have! igint _ charging an unlawful | lmore , competing. _ corporations, preen subpaened. prices n 5 ee - ithe .men concerned are quietly Suits under the Sherman’ anti, reminded that they are in viola- : tena all the railqoads of the tion .of the ‘Clayton Act. ‘and. Oklahoma federal courts: ‘nation—964 .of : them—are de-| This ‘has been enough in many ‘against the American Meat Insti-'|fending in ‘suits “alleging. they ‘cases to get ‘them to resign from | ntute and the, leading .meat ,pagk- | oner-charged ,thé, government orf ap but one :board of directors. ase, aceused of large-scale rice its military. “Acéight ducing ithe} Many .of ‘the division's pending SxIng. ° Wer. a ne. or ten.years old, Realty -and ‘Building ses are. ni ¥ A newly: Greated unit,” ‘in the | \ingtituted. long before the .incum- The housing phase was launch: | AntiTrust “Division is owatehing:| pene ney of — present .director, ed when ‘the division secured in- pian. illegal mergers. . “Astotneys! John F. Sonnett. Here are a dictments from .a District of ‘Co- +General ,Clark. said: many .com-'|few of the better known defend- jumbia federal .grand ~ jury {panies have been “teking -advan- pea on the division’s docket: pagainst - ‘the "National Association tage .of ‘the | ‘unsettled feconver-|' The American Society of Com- ad ‘Real Estate “Boards and the} jsion ign -peridd - ‘to! ‘buy: out competi: | posers, Authors and Publishers: "bing for oranges; it is‘a far cry. from the eriginal ‘observation: gc, ye — i een ont the day. Hallowe‘en was celebrated ‘by: the’ ‘Druids on ce are’ Aaeotiation, Tne.!: Tethnldol- British aes: long ,before Christianity... ‘ , or, ‘Inc.:_Bastman Kodak; Ameri- In the old-days, the: population lit bonfires on : ican Can .€o.; Chrysler .Corp.; jit was the one oight in the year on ‘which ‘ghosia “a lane to: Anele Ford Motor Co.; the General ‘El+ ony | were apt to be wandering. es oon bs ectric :Co:; -and Paramount *Pic-’ .,... hearthstones, aa WENE of going to partion. i }tures. COPS STEP OUT to have fun-with the youngsters in Boston, en- tertaining as many as 100,000 at a time with a .bang-up party that pays dividends in reduced property damage as well as community happiness. Other towns and cities have adopted the scheme which Kansas City police claim to have originated. The urge for pranks is harnessed. +e jAati- -Trugt : Division's: big: guns a<@ a ‘AS “HOST, Detroit Diuggist BOBBY SOXERS paint the Louis’ Stone ‘entertains poten- town for prizes in Toms River, ‘tial scab artists. ' é ‘New scale » p Rae AM, tel OS dh ~ pore re ge twat heist. | » ess - AR Newsteatures Writer y 7 EN, which’ started: out seriously’ “enough 8_.an cent aid pagan ceremonty,-is in the (process of being ‘streamlined and coriverted:to,community fun‘in United States. ‘In past generations, Oct. 31 was an evening of unadulter- ted mischief. Gates were missing from fences the next morn- ing, the cow was mooing uncomfortably from ithe neighboring ‘church ‘bel and almost all American store windows were liberally scribbled over in soap. } The no-holds-barred fun of All Hallows Eve began to:take on the aspects of'a community problem and some 10 years ago police of Kansas City and Boston devised. with commendable ingenuity, a plan to keep small fry out of householders’ ‘hair. -,.«From Polleck’s , : The flash of RHINESTONES Fortunately, Hallowe'en also had_a tradition of party-giving. ; flash of : mgt mente . » athe glitter.of GOLD... the : So.the men with the night sticks were called in to.unseat the magic.of MARCASITE ... to old woman from ker:broomstick. The first year of the Big Plan, sparkle.on‘her throat, wrist and Kaneas City cops played host to gbout -12,000 youngsters who bobbed for apples and ate ice cream during the hours they would have devoted to ripping the.city to shreds :in Boston, two dress. Select ‘bracelets, pins, -eatrings, .chatelaines, chokers, = Jater, the gendarmerie played:host to 100,000. necklaces from America’s most From those beginnings, the idea has spread -until jt -is -al- ‘famous designers and our most .a common eek ae as routine as distribution of GREATEST VALUES. 4 as ig einer eee . inte ten, smischief pto- : 3 athe Cinb atid geal’ mer- Bhs ae chants wun. an, .annual contest for ‘the best soap creations WSs ee achieved in a supervised contest. Druggist Louis Stone (who x had suffered annually from soaped windows) tosses an an- nual Hallowe'en party in/Detroit. One year 3,000 potential window-artists showed up, many of them accompanied by their parents. Chicago's treatment of the theme is a little different: the boys in blue deputize school boys who are assigned to mischief- trols on the fateful evenings. It:has worked. : Out inthe farm country near Traverse City, Mich., the pub- lic school teachers restrained mischievous antics with a yearly Jack-o-Lantern contest, with prizes to boys and girls producing the most frightening specimens of pumpkins. All over the nation, young people’s clubs hold costume parties and play the traditional Hallowe'en games. Skeletons Exclusive cavort, witches ride -broomsticks and everybody hobs for « Satin g apples. Naturally, with such a.distinctive set of traditions hesiet of Trifari them made in America) trigger-minded promotion men have achieved some new twists to an old celebration. Core: Around the middle.of July some thousands of film starlets, under the eagle eyes of studio publicity men, climb into cheese- Kreisler cake versions of witches costumes and pose for thousands of pictures which will be sent hopefully to thousands of news- fan gy — ro papers and magazines. Costume Jewelry owers in Florida fill tubs with the fruit and poe es, girs “in a variation of an old Hallowe’en theme." the Fn of ston | country of Seattle, a smart promoter pill ly dumps a barrel of fruit into a swimming pool, puts about 3@0 ‘children in the pool with them and shoots a igual of a mass QUALITY = Jewe LERS gs tere feo Sor Wet Fe SEE OUR STORE There’s a truck farmer in Madison, Ohio, named John Cz whose hobby is growing pumpkins so that they assume the contours of human faces. Then he paints them. This Hallo- we'en hobby has landed Mr. Cz in the newspapers and on the radio. But whether the celebration involves practical jokes or bob-