The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 4, 1949, Page 2

PAGE TWO the Key West Citizen : hey Publisher L. P. ART! |. Owner * NORMAN BD. Manager ess = daly guna ares ena a Sega and * ‘Monroe County arterea at Key West, Plorida, as second class matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS xclusivel, titled to The Avsuciated Press is exc! 'y. soos I Ure Year —. ex ag ett 6.00 bree Months i ime Month 1.00 Ww PS ees 25 Li ADVERTISING RATES Made Known on Applicatton ° SPECIAL NOTICE SAI reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions «f Pespect, opituary ndtices, poems, etc, will be Shaped for at the rate of 10 centa a line. ives )fon, entertainment churches from wi revenue is to be derived are 6 cents ine, dhe Citizen Is an open forum and invites dis- eteeven of .public. issues and subjects of loca) or ow interest, but it will not publish anonymous Sinitabhieations: IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Afrportse—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and MONOGRAPH Attention, Co-Workers: ; The Oracte predicts a double holi- day on July 3 and 4, as well ason De- cember 25 and 26, 1949. THE ORACLE '-U, S. LOSES FACE IN CHINA <3 ‘With the situation in China some- what chaotic, many Americans are getting ready to pull up stakes and leave that eountry. The policy of this eountry in aiding the Nationalists, militarily and economically, has not succeeded in de- feating the Communists but it has made them angry, with the anger directed against’ Americans. By contrast, the British traders are planning to ride out the storm, according to hewspaper reporters. While the Ameri- cans were taking the lead in “helping China,” the British held their ground and let the Americans de the work. Conse- quently, recent anti-foreign demonstra- tions. were directed against Americans, not British, and yeporters say that stu- dents in Nationalist China, which was helped by this country, clamored for our Marines to be withdrawn. It is perhaps natural for the Commun- ists‘in China to put out a vigorous anti- American propaganda. They dislike the use of American aircraft and equipment by the Nationalist troops and make much of the bombing and machine-gunning of defenseless villages. U-BOATS MORE DANGEROUS There is considerable doubt in the minds of naval experts whether the equnp- ment and techniques which successfully operated against the submarine in World War Il can combat the greatly-improved type of submarine that is now possible, if equipped with the “Snorkel” which con- sists of “breathing tubes” and permits the submarine to cruise almost indefinitely submerged. _For his reason, it is said, the Navy has placed a high priority upon anti-sub- marine operations with the idea of de- veloping a defense that will meet the new type U-boat. Moreover, modern sub- marines are being developed for special- ized roles, Some are “pickets,” equipped with radar to detect enemy planes and, perhaps, control our own aircraft. Others are planned to be used in guiding missiles. MORE DANGEROUS | thos While the swiftness of traveling has been stepped-up to a degree that the peo- ple of the United States a @entury ago would have considered “fantastic, yet the safeguards against accidents, entailing the loss of lives, has been going on at a snail’s pace. Before ships were equipped with wire- less communication with shore stations, some ships, steamers as well as_ sailing ships, left port to heard from again. The sea swallowed up the ships and their passengers and crews, But even with the use of radio, now and then an airplane is swallawed up by the sea and leaves no trace behind. Such was the case of the DC-3 airliner, which disappeared between Puerto Rico and Miami on December 28. Captain Robert Lundquist, who had given instructions in flying at Meacham Field in Key West, was the pilot of the plane. He was amone the country’s mest experienced flyers, but experience is of no avail when mechanism fails. We look at a plane high in the air, and it seldom oceurs | never be to us that the lives of the persons in that plane depend on the proper functioning of an inanimate object. That object, machinery, failed in Cap- tain Lundquist’s plane, and its failing re- sulted in the deaths of persons. A fail- ing motor in.an automobile seldom causes the loss of life, though stalled cars have been demolished railroad crossings, causing the deaths‘of its occupants. The speeding driver of an automobile stakes his life in his tires. A blowout, while he drives at breakneck speed, generally in- jures or kills him. But he runs other risks, among them collisions or skidding off the road. Traveling has been speeded up, but traveling now is far more dangerous than ever before. 26 32 at Whenever you think you are getting to be something super, read about the stars that dot the mysterious universe. The Communist Party was crganized in September, 1919, at Chicago. It has had many names, changing them to serve Mos- cow and to evade the law of the United States. It is not a political party like the Democratic and Republican parties be- cause it takes its orders from:Mosecow. *: ENDORSES SEPARATE AIR FORCES The present separation of the Air Force and Naval arm is endorsed by a com- mittee of distinguished Americans, making a report sub-committee of the (Hoover) Commission on the Reorganiza- tion of the Executive Branch of the Gov- ernment. Pointing out that the safest course of action is not necessarily the cheapest, the Committee the opinion that prudence dictates the continuing develop- ment of both the long-range, land-based4 bomber program of the Air Force Stra- tegic Air Command and the carrier-based bombing tactics of the Naval air arm, A as a ex presses merger of the two now, concludes the Committee, might imperil combat effi- ciency. The Committee frankly takes the position that has been advanced in these columns for sometime, saying, “It may be that land-based planes will someday so increase in rance and power as to” elimi- nate any need for ship-based planes. It may also be that the development of long- ranged guided missiles will render all kinds of piloted strategic bombers solete. These conditions do not now e A Admitting that “the form and charae- ter’ of another war are not known, the Chevrolet's biggest newspaper weeklies to announce new what 5,972-newspapers look ‘like, Key West In. Days Gone By AS TAKEN FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF ‘ JANUARY 4, 1939 January 22; UUTOULLLUURUGELUGLULORETCTEEULELAALG AS campaign will use 5,972 tion. Representing an individual pu! Bottle-Snatcher dailies and Banish, here's * Chapter to *EJE'S comin’ around now.” & leng way off. I realized that I was blindfolded, | but tight. . And that my hands were tied behind my back, but tight also. I was sitting on a chair. The wooden kitchen variety. Which is to say, one leg was a ftaction shorter’ than the other three. It teetered a little as I im~- pulsively shifted position. And that brought more words again. | From just off the end of my nose, “Open up for papa, Barnes.” The lip of a glass was wedged between my lips, and a very bad brand of rye slid by and down my throat. It brought back the power of speech. Gurgling, and gasping, but nevertheless speech. “Where am 1?” I demanded. That brought a harsh laugh ‘ from one. And a dry, mirthless chuckle from a couple of others. “What is this?” I kept at it. “Who are you guys? And what’s the idea of the rough act?” “Just. making it easier all around,” he said. “The answers to a few questions, that’s all.” About that time I came to real- ize that they hadn’t bound my legs. And promptly the fathead in me toyed with the idea of popping up and kicking whoever was right in front of me where it would ’b hurt the most, I managed to kill the urge, though. “What. questions?” I asked. “Questions about what?” “Oh, this and that,” the voice in the distance told me. “And we're . | not in any hurry, Barnes.” “I am!” I snapped. “I suddenly don’t like it here.” “Just a tough guy, but dumb, eh?” The words were accompanied by a ringing smack across my left JAMESTOWN, N. Y. — James} cheek. ee hard enough toi knock ’ Bri * me out. Just enough to let me 5 eamen > jpaerolman, ae 4) stick around and watch all those culprit steal a quart of milk! bursted colored stars go parad- from a neighbor’s home, move O'Brien the cap and lap away. figured there wasn’ lice dog. Greens on the Stock Island golf, course, which have been jer’ improvement for’ several “‘Wdeks," Your Horoscope will be used by players in tomor- row’s play, Eddie Bushy said today. He added? con: thes —The keynote of this day is As. carry the bottle to a nearby lot, re- |much sense in arresting — a po- TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1948 piration. There is a disposition to aon, arg aw insexcelene adventure. Artistic in taste, these | 2 *|matures sometimes become easily | 5 egrrupted and guarding against! B. H. McCalla Camp, }this the native is well-minded. Spanish War Veterans, appointed there is a gr ; ite at a mecehet Tae is @ great tendency toward night to arrange for the met ori services to be held at the Maine, Oriental..customs and travel, ...,|. ing by. The words came to me from|™ me. “Just the answers to a couple of questions, and then you can ‘un along. £ ‘HE voice near me had been hard, and surly-tough. Like from the lips of maybe a bi, y- The distant voice was reedy. From a thin-faced guy? Maybe the thin- faced guy I'd ditched in ‘io City%, Could be, and could not be, also. And while I was straining for sounds I picked a some that were quite familiar. They told me things, but considering the situa~ tion not very important things. Boat foghorns told me I was very close to either the East or Hudson River. And then a differ- ent kind of fumbling roar made me elect the East River as m, best guess. I mean, I was sure was close to where Long Island traffic, to and fro, was crossing one of the pridges. But which one I didn’t bother to guess. “What did DeFoe say to you yesterday?” “Who's DeFoe?” I came right back. é He'd warned me to be bright, so I got it. A smack that seemed to loosen every one of my teeth. They were certainly playing in a blue chip league. “What did DeFoe say to you yesterday, Barnes?” “Nothing particular, that I re- member,” I said. “We just batted the breeze. Were you one of the six million there, too?” “Right,” he admitted. “And you didn’t bat any breeze with that baby. He made a date at your office for this morning.” I thought of DeFoe’s angry glare that had made me turn around and see nothing but im- ported potted palms. It appeared now that there had been some- body. And that somebody had heard us make the date. The killer? This character who owned the reedy voice in the distance? “Then why ask me?” I played for time. “Nobody’s asking you that,” he gave it to me pointedly. “Why did he want to see you?” y: “Be bright, Barnes,” I managed to hear the distant voice advising “I don’t know,” I said truthful- TUESDAY; JANUARY 4, 1949 —_——— ee assign aa $ co" 4 A nay we . . And then as I sensed move- Peale I added quickly, “And tell this plug-ugly here that slug- ing me won't change that at # just don’t know! “No?” “Nol” ~ q E that?” “You're a fool, Barnes! Did you “When I won't be,” I told him. * for letting me pitch one?’ “What do you mean? i “Me ask a question,” I told him. “All right,” he decided. “Let's have it.” “Why was DeFoe scragged in my office?” I demanded. Silence. Bunches of it. A great big carload of it. 1 could hear three different kinds of heavy breathing. Like three guys who had been running for a long time. “Once again, Barnes?” the dis- tant voice asked, and I could al- most picture his lips stiff and back my next taxi 1 ows against his teeth . .. if he had teeth. “Why was DeFoe scragged in my office?” I repeated. And then because I seldom let well enough alone, I added, “I aa a who ... I asked why? The other one, T ‘know! eh 4 And, of course, not having been the type to let well enough alone, I walked myself right into a ter- rific beating. I did come up onto my feet, and all the rough and tumble with hands tied that I'd learned and: put to use in the OSS came to my. rescue. But it came just a little bit late. I got in a couple of head butts, and I kicked a couple of shins, and also other parts of the human form. I even worked a leg trip-twist that dropped somebody like a ton of bricks. And then just as the bel- low of pain was starting to be music in my exploding ears the whole works came down with @ crash, and there I was under it all. But I didn’t know about that. All I knew was strictly from nothing .. . for the second time in one day! (To be continued) a NING: Cater) (pag tée comprises Charles James Johnson and G. shorn. The sheriff's office reported, to=/f* day that it expects to make ar-; been despoiling graves ,in City! Cemetery. ei Myrtland Cates, city poforcy-, cle officer, today resigng¢d fg: ac-, cept a position as an engineer on the lighthouse tender Ivy, ; Rainfall in Key West last year. was 15.53 inches below. normaly according to a statement,,issued: today by the local weather. Bu- reau. commissioners, will County hold their first meeting. fer, 1939 tonight. Three continue inrserv- ice, Chairman Carl Bervaldi, and ren and Norberg Thompson,,.and two members of the board’ are, William Monsalvatge oe ta) new, and T. Jenkins Curry. 1 Mrs. Carl Bervaldi, chairman, Mothers of the school for tomorrow afternoog. in the home of Mrs. Benjamin, Lawe, Harris, public Fred Sinnott, of Philadelphia, when uncle and aunt, Clinton Sinnott. a boy, is here visiting his Mr. and Mrs. Today The Citizen says in an. editorial paragraph: r “A word to the wives ig, nat sufficient.” TODAY’S { Commissioners Braxton ,B,. z has called a meeting of , Roont E who was a resident of Key West | s IN AND FOR IN CHANCER ¥ e Now ELZADIA JAMES, Plaintiff, vs. HENRY JAMES, Defendant. ORDER OF PUBLICATION TO: MONpon.cg 11-662, rests shortly of the gang that has Henry James, Residence Unknown. Tv is hereby ordered that you are required to appear on the 32th di of Jahtiary, 1949, before the entitled Court to the Bill plaint filed against you in enfithed cause and the K Citizen is hereby design newspaper in which this be published o consecutive we Witn the “ Aquiline Judges of 1 of Court. in tt Moriroe County West Key , this Clerk ¢ Monroe County, Anne ¢ Ry (sd) PAUL “E Solicit Longworth Deputy Clerk tf. } Dincharce 33) COUNTY MONROE COUNTY FLORIDA, Notice is hereby given tha beth B..Albury filed her final report 2xecutrix of the Albury, ased DIVORCE his Vuh 1948 jan.4,1949 | n to Make Appli- AN PRO} punty Judge of Mour mnity Florida, on the 19th day of Janaary 1949, for approval of ne and for final discharge as utrix of the tate of Edmund W. Albury, de- sed, on this Zist dey of Decerm » 1948, beth B. Albury, of the estate of »| never higher.” ahead of expenses. WE NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD AS IN tes ee By SAM DAWSON, AP Newsfeatures Writer NEW YORK—Higher prices are raising squawks all over) | the land. But more people are finding more money to buy more | things than ever before. The American standard of living was | This happy condition isn't uniform, however. Some claises | | of people have fallen far behind in’ the race to kéep income! | | These are the ones with fixed incomes: those who live on 1 pensions, annuities, savings from early years; most of the white! | collar class, teachers, salaried professional people; those | whose living comes from rents and dividends, which haven't costs has pinched the most. But the rest of the people are doing a lot better. Prices have soared, but Americans own more automobiles, home appli- ances and the like than ever before. ' Take that symbol of the Amer- } ican standard of living, the fam- ily car. Itc about twice what it did before the war, but more ‘|are owned now than then, and || people pay premiums to get their »} names high on some dealers’ lists. Nearly 29 million families own the more than 30 million cars now on the roads. And still more plan to, and expect to find the money advanced at the same rate as the cost of living, and many in| the unskilled labor group, where food and clothing takes the} major share of the family budget, and where the rise in living | ished Petty, a parking-lot A | A more persons employed in non- farm jobs now than in 1939, or a gain of 50 per cent. High prices may play a ma- jor share in jacking up the dol- lar total on national income. But some of it is due to increas- ed production. Since 1939 farm production has increased by one-fourth. The physical vol- ume of manufactured and min- eral products has increased by three-fourths. Take one example of this. The! per bushel | ear. But be- | farmer is+getting less for his crops this ganem PRICE INDEX nem cctaieraaeitainsinces * | His Kindness Pays $1,000 LOS ANGELES—For the | two and a half years, every time | Robert Petty, passed an el- | derly shoestring and pencil ped- | ler, he had a smile and a friendly | word for the old man. The other day, the peddler cashed some war bonds and presented the astun- atten | dant, with $1,000 in cash. Petty doesn’t even know his benefac- {tor’s name. Benjamin Franklin first pub- lished Poor Richard’s Almanac ‘in 1728. —————“—_____. total income from each of the fellowing: wages and salaries, farms, unincorporated business and professional activities. Div- idends were up 50 per cent, and income from rents and interest up 20 per cent. But here+’comes the rub. In come from transfer payments went down 10 per cent. These past Besides, transports, cargo ships and oilers | members of the Committee concludes that #8,jan4-11,1949.1to—no matter how much Dad] cause of the big crops he is: sell- | 2@: veterans benefits and bonus ANNIVERSARIES es, relief payme' ate expected to travel under the water. it would unsafe “to put all our eggs in ~ SARIES Retien ts enn ih eh comthel ne oe ee eS se buy Cialksecuuiabensticiee | re ey 2 ae ‘ < (1933 Probate Act, is the money coming} ing cars and farm equipment. The |?) ehents _. Naturally, the “Snorkel,” which per- | one basket,” and come to the conclusion | _____ (Know America) INTHE COURT. ¢ from? The nation’s total personal | total farm income has turned|, The American standard of liv mits the submarine to draw air from the | that “some duplication of effort between me es é A Haake s. {income has about tripled since|down since the harvest but it is | i9é Was never higher, for the ma 7 5 attorney - general, co: man, 3 : > > Ye eens Se: Bight aelIGeh eam ana as, not fo: surface and to discharge the exhaust from | Air Force and Naval power seems reason- | lawyer fitet U.S. Miniaer ty Aw ee ene nears ee fe oad ey pane Conall Diesel engines, greatly increases the com- } able whether or not the Air Force or the | gentina, born Dover, Del. » Died “St eral reserve board increased 75| There has been a change in the | June 10, 1824. 1809—James sed To All Creditors and Persons Hav-| per cent. faa eee. eee ey Who has been getting all this bat characteristics of submarines. More- wrether improvements are expected. {trends this year. Prices made | their spectacular rise between the Naval air arm is merged. Discussing the question of future stra- Go the FASTEST Way 47 minutes to M. Nack, New ¥ r ‘ . : York deaf and dumb poet, well-} You and each of you are money? The total amount of | spring of 1946 and the spring of | When we visualize the tremendous dam- | tegy, the Committee says: “Yet the present | known in his time, born‘ New eee aad dead onan eng NY | wages and salaries paid this | 1947. Now they are decidedly | M j A age done by submarines in World War Il, | range of bombing planes is not sufficient ee Died Sen ee aa elther of you, may have against! the) year is three times the amount | mixed. Ending 1948 lower than| — aa . F sae us Paes a eI ake .2—Washington C, uw, Festaie: of joseph b. Curl also) paid in 1939. {they started are the prices of lsthe Germans inthe Atlantic and the | to dispense with overseas air bases, which Lennie. Carty, deceased, late of said | Total income of farmers is now | farm products, foods, chemicals, PME YASERYICE Mihericans in the Pacfic, it iseasy to un- @fstand why the Navy is anxiaus to de- Nélop more adequate means of defense. manufacturer, college benefactor, born Salem, Ind. Died May 5, 1887. f 1851—James Pilkington, noted New York City policeman ath- the Army will have to hold andthe Navy service. Furthermore, defense against mass strategic bombing (of the conventional pattern) has improved so greatly that the County, to j textiles, hides and leather. But} “ge pleas fice when, it should be noted, in all! the prices of iron and steel, non-| at Key West, eight | fairness, farm income didn’t look | ferrous metals, farm machinery, | calendar months from the time of{sq good when compared to some} automobiles and other metal By | the first publication of this notice. | kh claim or demand shall be inj Other classes. | ducts have made their great spurt = After the ambulance takes away the | only practical method of attack in the | lt, born Cavendish, Vtx “Died . aid shall state the place ot/ Total corporate profits are four| this year. They average 11 per | =. Pepi yu ans ? April 25, 1929. segs ae chatl be sworn | times as high now as in 9. So} cent higher now than in January. FLY WITH CONFIDENCE ON wietims, it is too late to resolve to drive | future may be with atom bombs, carried |. 1858—Cartcr Glass, country ed- his agent, or his/ is total income from business and} Income trends have also been | slewly. by single, high-speed planes.” These, it ;ito™ congressman, famed secre- ty Such claim or de- | professional activities. Dividends, | mixed. And that is where much | NATIONAL ; was pointed out, might be launched from tary of the treasury, Virginia EMMA FROW, however, total only twice as|of the squawk against high prices As administratrix of the senator, borr Lynchburg,: Va. Died May 28, 1946. 1873—Blanche Walsh, - actress, born in New York. Died Oct. 32, 1915, me Ok tbe UORLALe of | much as prewar, and so does fale come from rents and interest. The great gain in total income is more widely distributed than ever before. re axe 19 muon in- | arises. Since the spring of 1946, while prices have done most of their high jumping, there was only @ 30 pex cent increase in | Joseph L. Curry, Leonard Curry and J. Lennie Cur- Ty, deceased. Enrique Esquinaldo, AIRLINES ROUTE OF TNE BUCCAMELAS For Information Call 1084 or your travel agant [= Hf armaments were equal in Europe the Russians would not disregard allied @greements about the control of Berlin, | we = either land-based or aircraft carriers “which, though highly vulnerable, are, at the sume time, highly mobile.” Ir, noted Indiana banker, plate | Attorney for Ges Zi-26.b2s5:ians-1 419s