The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 10, 1949, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN {Billy McIntyre PAGE TWO , . NO LIMIT Americans generally take for granted conditions of life as they prevail in the United States today. Occasionally, they may recall the hardships or snail-paced living by the country’s pioneers, . Sot Ls nd Ann Stre: er Or z} deiy Dally Newnpaper in Key West and Monroe County A bum wa}ké@ into a high-class cafe and asked the waitress for a drink of water. She said: “Sure, I'll give you a glass of F ida, as second clase matter shteree at Key Went BOMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS r basket was a crumpled it? No more than ten minutes. If! pape! Chapter 15 The Answcisted Prens is usively entitled to j water, that's one of the four things that we give away,” ” in pa o : Ly , » may tra y ‘ ae j - Y’ll come down to | of paper. Plain paper, perha| tem ot ail dispatches credited Today one may travel by plane from {What's the other three, lady? “Matches, toothpicks and WAS that knowledge startling? 1 get the as opout it And | stepped over, bent down" Warren County, Géérgia to Jasper, Flori- | good advice.” .“Ajsight, Miss, I'll take my allowance of the Ina way, yes. And ina way, n0.| maybe a brother to one of those | pulled it out just in case not, = more. = —— thought about when the little) «you've Sass ‘a right enough guy. letely covered with 6.00 3.00 1.00 225 required three months for Mrs, Rebecca her 102nd anni- }- Florida, «last was comp least, fifty signatures. But the natures were all the same ty And the name was... He Varney. wk kb & , geezer stopped talking was wheth- “Why does Jones want to di Your Horoscope \ er or not proof that my hunch vorce his wife? I that she was ; Was correct was worth thirty-five \ bucks of my money. I still couldn’t So go ahead and take your ume. Nobody else on this floor, anyway. So you don’t need to bother about some bozo sticking his head in. Strugis, who celebrated versary in Okeechobee, at ea: aT phe very loyal?” “Yes; dait he wishes! * MONDAY, JANUARY 948) ‘ ; i Thursday, to make the trip. elias inate who ee, ee Lesa aie UARY 10, 1948) make up my mind when he pulled|° With a nod, a wink, and a wave I say the signatures at th Mrs. Sturgis reealls that she was five hee Ned Sa fixity of pur-| me back from my thought trance.| of his hand he turned and went out}{orn of the sheet were #l.ghtly Lape 2 é : ; hk Oe pose and skill of performanc¢! «phat help any?” he asked, but| of the room, softly-closing the door | ferent from those at the top. LQ roqgert, coituary poems, will be | years of age when she and her parents “Have you enough ‘money to Which, combined with a power of | his eyes were focussed on the bill} behind him. ~{ from there I went on to note : Sy ate at shee xtrom.\emade the trip in an ox eart eart from War- | tke me home — insjayseab,- bey adaptation, should make you aj still in my right hand. there was actually a gradual ived are 5 cents a@ line. 5 A Bh friend?” “Darling;-you know I'd leader. If the strain of egotism “Maybe,” I said, and gave it to| "HE problem was where to start! ference in the way the name . witem! aia ren county to Jasper. She is now residing spend the rest of myeife riding’ and vanity which always goes! him. “Sure ‘you can’t remember| + because nothing seemed oo be in signed 1 pt oes ~ Se sa * ocn ie a SAE Se 3 z s ct i . peaks petite i Ss ike?” iece. ing, bi ni bottom. In short, ui ibliah anonymous | With her son-in-law and daughter, Judge | in a taxi with youtts’Phen quit, With this nature is allowed to| what the others looked like? ne ee Evereure heme ey te eal vanes ote be greatly} | He shook.his head firmly. control,; “Straight, Mister,” he said. { “You're a right guy, and if I could Tsure would. But I can’t. They was just guys with clothes on. The last one, though, anybody would half | remember at least. On account of the | that mug of his. But the others? named Herbert Varney had copied and copied uptil all little characteristic scrawls flourishes were'as they should “sor” I aloud. “Maurice Cardeur cracking, lock picking, and for seanning the curbefen,a-castoff, SOW you May not street car transfer and let's go. leved; but, reasonable home.” there is great prom: *. ¥L3 | “So you give the liat check girl! In the days following P a 50-cent tip? My, my, that’s bet- opening of Japan, the Ame! before.” flag looked so beautiful to there. I decided to begin with a small flat; well worn leather case that was half hidden under the, corner of a dirty pil'ow slip at my feet. I reached down, picked it up, undid the flap snap, and took a look. I had struck pay dirt first try. It was as neat a set of burglar tools and Mrs. Hancock. Mrs. Hancock is eighty years of age. When the operation of trains to Key st was discontinued in September, 1935, we heard many Key Westers who IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN We 4. More Motels and Apartments. 5 é ter than you ever did - ! are 2% Beach and Bathing Pavilion. spoke about our isolation, But that term | “But you ought to see the hat she Japanese it was popularly known | Nope.” as I've ever seen. Hae reds he sheet tae + ac ace il was rather strong abithat. times Welkansmave me” : jas the “flower fla {churned to walk out of the room,| As T'stared af it T wondered if signatures’ into ‘my pocket ° : . 5 * 3 ————_————— uddenly a screwy sor in-|i en part o! r bh woe ME ye 4 Consolidation of County ana daily mail service, incoming and outgoing, wk x ek 1 oat ela faree seemed 40 make _me|:tandard Underground equipment, | little bald-headed guy was ull : Bunny: “How come,you never LEGALS { é . 4 and ears as I walked up. City Governments. and were able reach the ls by tniay * \ | stop and turn around again. I had| or whether he had used it by way |" r ®& Community Auditorium. and were able to reach the mainland by | piay the radio when,,.your boy | the impression all at once that] of picking up a little “business” on], “You musta found some boat or over the Overseas Highway, after | friend is visiting you? fe | something was screaming out loud| the side. Then when I poked a takin long, huh?” he na passing over the water gaps by ferry. | wand it woing full Bast: anal ee { Hors alten bon Wnab ihedcitithe| Anger maitbe Gen packed bres | enot ta net Tal But a century ago and up to the 1880s, | didn’t hear my father walk in.” } | “"Ystood there so long just staring| poor light of the room, It was a] wasted my tame. Tere | at the mess in the room that the|bead chain, and hanging on the], As I started to slide a ten a vhen Key West’s i rg Rane) [a 8S il e 5 ook his bald MONOGRAPH when Key West's Population: was larger “Oh, a a one 7 re aS fie ae Dialaelt | bold-headed little geezer started | chain were at least fifteen keys of Lethe pre pee: ,! “om Monroe County Commissioners : than any other city in Florida, we had | vor. held up” “What, by @ robs amr,°% eee pivoncr: shifting from one foot to the other, all shapes and sizes. A com ait hr alae 7 oy - ol am ae as : P ; Aap 2 pat, by 8 | THEODORE CHASE, and shooting me snap looks that| them were even blanks. inc. 2 ies Gentlemen: only one mail a week. Schooners at that | ber?” “No, by. a freight train.” | eee Defendant. | Pecans increasingly” filled” with| that kind of an expert I wasn't able|, “Forget it, Mister.” he said time operated regularly between Key po UICAEION fear-quaking apprehension. Final-| to say for sure. But I was willing] Know a right gent when » see to bet quite a sum that that collec- tion of keys would open an awful lot of locks, both plain and fancy. And because I was willing to make ly he couldn’t stand it any longer. at's the matter, Mister?” he ked out. “You think I been kk Ok Hubby: “Why did you make a! lemon meringue pie when y know I don’t like it?”: Wifey: Dividing the clinic insurance be- tween the three applicants . instead of giving it to one concern only would have ‘No, you take it,” I sald, and the bill where I'd pushed it. “ something extra. To forget South, | Wlifornia, ed to nt West and Havana, but when they encoun- tered contrary winds,. it required a week ; we ¥ e trip. ay F ave Key | didn’t make ft ; he z j i: ever saw me. Maybe some more been the better part of playing politics, to mi uke the trip. Today Ee cee le RNG Key | did RARE HEMQD Bre naue BIS. ee SE etre ie whe dae ot F : that bet I slipped the ring of keys | P¥° pals will be dropping by. 1 I Wiectan a olane and bel intiavana in oor |i Was aneapole pie ee eee ee cheneine the alles Se ecycene Headlts tap dl into my pocket and tossed the case | iis pals will be dropping. but calling for bids would have been the eee ae iil never saw.an apple ‘pis with all| ations contained therein ‘will be | Shook my head to stop him. | of burglar tools back onto the floor. | don't want any fs them to Kad ' li ri ¢ 30 minutes. that yellow goo on il.” “L'il have | HkEn as confessed |. “Forget it,” I grunted without] Twenty minutes-later I got up| Was there. Get 1 es petter part of political wisdom, and saethi fe woul EHO BS He Die Ne | thie Order he to ie published once | Jooking at him. “The dough is all’ from my hands and knees, brushed He shook his head. and I set pleased the citizens most. Easing the Often we think that it would have }to confess, when the pie was in| a v four consecutive weeks | yours. ButI could do with a favor.” | half a peck of feathers from my self for the well-known ‘ : been impossible for us to have adjusted | the oven, I got to talking on the | pi in thes ciey oe “Yeah?” clothes, and mopped my. sweat-| However, it seemed to load, if ever so light, of the overburden- a Boe “i ie aia _ | phone, and I scorthed it. Then \ See ay Sa something screwy about beaded face with my handkerchief. | Barnes day for guessing wr our lives to the type of living of a century | fj tried to take the burn off with) |)" AND ORDERED this sth | said evenly. “Very screwy.|I had done the room, to coin @ at ron thated fe ed taxpayer economically sound, politically wise, and unequivocally just. THE ORACLE 8 i nee phrase, but hadn’t come up with a single thing. And then, suddenly, as I brushed off the last clinging pillow feather, I saw that I was wrong. At the bottom of an overturned waste- i day of January. Who would want anything they could find in this dump?” , “Not me,” he said. “Maybe I'll find out, if I look around myself,” I said. “How about unguentine.” K&R, “Mama, has our cat béen climb- ing all over you lately?” “Cer- | tainly not, dear. Why do you} \! ask?” “Oh, this morhing I heard papa say, to the maidr “Did you} ago, but had we lived then we would not have known of the conveniences of today and would have spoken, as people did at that time, of the modern way of living. A century hence, people will be saying about of things goes on in this dump I don’t get. But don't wor I never seen vou in my life And thanks, Mister.” I iLARY U. ALRURY, ttorney for Plaintiff jan.10-17. | MUUTUEUTUEUCEEUeagoneereiteetaaneeeneeege DROP THAT BONE i our way of living what we say about the } see the puss on the ol@ lady this) vor TODAY’S vou thii pu’re doi sourdor at monger life of a century ago. Improve- | morning?” 5 i ! ANNIVERSARIES f you think you're doing your dog a ul : b ert oe ck ates i ey es n big favor by tossing him that steak bone, Bee: % si HE ce C,tor theres 4 co your boy friends really al! D G B (Know America) ' oe ae 0 one an. slow poke?” ‘“AndiKow. -Why,! 1737—Ethan Allan, Revolution- you ain't. In fact, according to Tom Farley, last night we sat on the couch for | i : ays one Vy ary leader of Vermont's historic BIRTH DAY well-known dog columnist, you're not Let’s make 1949 a banner year in| 2m hour, and the guy didn’t start! x'\ xc oi UTISSGN, aise known AS TAKEN FROM. FILES oreen Moe eH porn pri i ; pe ae : . Finally I had U1 hi JOLINSON, NANCY. JOLNSON itchfield, Conn. Died Feb. 12, treating your pooch fairly at all. highway safety. Why hurry to kill a per- eeu age tac aie and NANNA JOINSON, Deceased Oe anien 1789. _By AP Newsleatures Te back up his bone boycott, Farley | son who might be you? do then?” “The poor mutt got} sis hereby given that J. Y. (aM nAAHMMEMMNMMUEM | 1804—Oakes Ames, Easten, = points to a recent speech made by Dr. A. R. : ; ite es ilxo known ag N ; “legal tender’ , Theobald, President of the American Ani- LITTLE AMERICA : . oe Bs Nancy ichnsen & Nanna the city council, at a meeting last see ho nocurninn. builder, | 28% 20 1884, in Norfolk, Va, Famous grounds , fer;, Se Rn Nant tS aah err eR CT TGEICe Oa WERt day, ‘congressman, builder- | lett Ammendale College aft mal Heapital Association, in which the dis- tinguished veterinarian blasted the idea The United States is finding that it ayy wifey, UM be epip ©) 4 emmond the sanitary and mosquito-con-| 9 137: o . ea . see that fan dancer better. |Sudge of Monroe Co : 5 : : 8. 1873. ceath he that ghe bone was good fare for canines. also has growing troubles nearer home in i + | Judea (of Moitrae County, IlorMs.) trol campiagn that) is being on-|| | 250) 7 ouisa tane Drew, Phile oe Said Dr. Theobald, “We still have too | the Western Hemisphere. “On my vacation f never went | {2% ipproval of sume and for tinal {ducted here by the W PA. EgeIGHTaE, actress miahagen | Aha ed a “XI “ ‘ ‘osta Riea is testi » “Tittla [away from the table’ hungry.” estate *. Johnson napa “grand old lady of the stage,” ge many bones fed to dogs. Bones are the Ph Costa Ric is testing the new little nae viet : nena yeu es eeee ‘ County Tax Collector Frank H. oe Prasat: Died Auge oT: silent ¥ Marvation diet for dogs. If a pack of | United Nations” of the Western Hemis-} vont away from the fable.” — Ladd said today that, thus far,! 1397 days. His hounds have placed before them a] phere witha charge that Nicaragua has oes 4 only 410 current automobile li- o9=4mmendore Svies eee ender oe ’ 5 Administrator nt cance! tazeihaveibean cold 1822—Theodore L. Cuyler, n b nd serwe slaughtered horse or cow, they will eat all | invaded her territory. In El Salvador, the | _ “I told that ae eaune that me Naney 1 dotnsen ae cae ted Brooklyn, N. Y. Presbyterian ants on level 6, a) ars were Ut ‘ar> bael im 1s as SS ‘lergyma 7 rora, N. Y. ' the soft tissues and leave the bony frame-| Army has overturned the Government. |joryo “what happen then?) amd Nanna Dr Har mG ule (chairman elcrey ma ponnen Aurora, N. Y der live y <8 work until last......“Under domestica- | Venezuela and Peru are inthe hands of |“Now my teeth aré the same! of the President's Birthday's Ball | 1847-—Jacob H. Schiff, New = ’ ae ving: 4 tion, with limited exercises, bones are | military cliques that have exiled the elect- | ¥@ Committee whasicay oa meeting | york banker, philanthropist and re ; ; - 5 = Seer i + for tonight to make preliminary | (07° Jone Pon Cormene nis X. Outhmes When his pal ¢setually harmful to the mature dog.” ed presidents. Chileans are just getting | ponay’s BIRTHDAYS + arr ents for the ball, which | Vie workey, bag ‘mn Germany| ularity waned in the '2¢s, he lam : However, the doctor had a good word | over the shock that high-ranking military G pee will be held on January 30 | : | millions. He went be vate oF “ “nn wer i ake over their Gov. now Americe = aoe ow 5 % ville a ow is comfortab’ paomey ter cemmerelal dog foods. “I be-jmen were plotting to'take/over'thelr Gov-| ster s, Gitford; board ehair Mwol destroyers and) 18) naval, aby willlhold almesting toma ow | Chicago pl as cade vel _ Neve that if it were not for dog foods the | ernment. man lot American Pall &) Vel planes arrived here today. Later | aternoon, beginning at 4 o'clock, SO. ETE Fe 4 . i . . = ‘i 4 dah ot - i av: m1 > ‘Ss. 4 r| — { nutritional disorders we would have today Unrest, thus, is rife in Latin America. | born in Salem, Mass., 64 years ceased, late of tine Clint they will ela fat novel te nore ores bila Richard reevvesverveyereeerlaam Z . : ‘ Monroe County, State muneuvers t ve relc in the; Son, art vil stree' { among our large number of dogs in urban | In many countries, the people are dissatis- ae ecEGHn ' NO arid each at, vou hereby Ganebeen een 4 : | cities STRONG ARM BRAND * areas would constitute afar more serious | fied. A Chilean court charges that the | y Gs LS EitGie Se ee aK van — | Today The Citizen says in an| TRIUMPH problem,” he said Argentine Government is fomenting a tor-artist, ‘born. in Morgan Co., are YOu NbN TNs no rae and ae fo pens Se palearanh COFFEE : ‘ 5 ea fs pe Angela street, today announced “Why is it that a woman a ' The conclusions to be drawn from | series of revolutions to replace civilian ad- joe 06 AROS the birth of a daughter. She | ways lowers her voice when she | MILL 4 thie? Farley has one, Says he, “Feed your | ministrations with pro-Argentine military An Bolg weighed — eight and one-half | for something and raises her at i dog one of the first grade commercial | Governments. Whether this charge can be | Dr. no pounds ane Das eepen a Domed she doesn’t get what she] All) Grocers ‘ Sdoods, such as the canned varieties certi- | proved is open to question. It appears to be | of General Electric, Behencetady, | fan ment eae —— _ roe | Lied by the government.” fneudesivelon politicalicontsultoieet | into oo. icin of Wit, Decen 1 Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Ferguson | " s, . . mn . -retlec 5 B1aSs, on pate pe 2 sons, k é d ior, D * hat bone? Master, you chew it. power, rather than Argentine inspiration, | Schenectady, 51 years ago. [ine and contain ave ang Seas ane 7 | + ' that is back of the trouble in Costa Rica. oem A. Johnson otWest Wire) Gauane ane) a and Mrs. A. J. Roberts \ verseas rans 10n ; BAD NEWS FROM CHINA In Cocta Rica, armed forées said to | 8!™4. ex-undersecretary off war, | Any such claim en ® anal OOD enna beised) Gomed cen wD TomokenaWa: cobryears)| tea within George M. Mixon, who came ; ? total about 1, men have seized some j ago. jmanner prescribe here yesterday to attend the mar- | Com an I 4 News from the, Far. East.indicates that | towns near Nicaraguan border. Costa Rica Re James G. Blaine af New York, Dated at Key West, Fl riage of Miss Lilian Lujan and} P Ys ne. the Government of President Chiang Kai- | charges th forces were organized and ank president, chairman of the 1 " j Aquilino Lop . left today for b ul pes Federation of Protestant Welfare ‘ Atlanta. Fast, Depen Frei Serv * Shek has received an unexpectedly serious | armed in Nicaragua and that, although | agencies, born in Neue York, 61 pee one " » Dependable Freight and Express Service + blew im the loss of Manchuria to ad-| they include some Costa Ricans, most of |¥¢ So. . 1948 :jan.3-10,19 The American Legion Auxili- vaneing Communist armies. Thus, for the second time in a genera- ion, the Central Government of China has had to write Manchuria off. The first The collapse of the Nationalist armies comes with some surprise to the ‘people. fthis country. Itis a matter of erable concern because it is @vidence' that =the Communist power is far greatér than | tions will last for a week, from January H 6:00 o'clock A.M. S suspected. However, there are those who | 16-23. | Local Schedule: S assert that the Chinese Communists are The turnout for Mr. Truman’s inaugura- (Stops At All Intermediate Points) ; nat to be confused with the Russian vartety | tion will probably be the biggest of all. | ceeT SUNDAYS) a1 8:00 o'clock but no one knows whether -there is any- | About 750,000 people are expected to | ots ios at Miami at 4:00 thing to this distinction or not. Let's see —who was it, besides Harry Truman, that thought the President would be re-elected. consid- | the men are Nicraguan soldiers and Mexi- can Communists. Few families understand how hard it THE INAUGURATION . President Truman’s inauguration will take place on January 20, but the celebra- come and cheer the man who scored one of the greatest upsets in political history. pensive for people to enjoy. What he wants, he has said, is a “real people’s inau- guration.”” Like Governor Warren’s | Tallahassee inauguration, we presume, up and shut the window “If you'll take your big of the w continued the popular ion is windows. in both th his fin the hips out for will he Raymond esta Loewy design and added new interior luxur: Mayor Willard M. Albury told + While offering a Tong lst of improvements in the new 1949 Studebaker models, the company hai The famed Studebakes in the Commander five-passenger Starlight coupe (shown) with its panoramic which provide stepyed-up perfosmance changes are retin pion engines, casion was when the Japanese gobbled ) is for the old man to meet the family Express Schedule: up the Province in 1931 after the so-call- | bills. ' (No Stops En Route) ed “Mukden Incident,” a) | LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EX- About half of the ills that afflict the | Mr. Truman himself is anxious to start aie Steere eink StS ieee human body originate in a pampered | his new term witha bang-up affair. He | : : mind hopes it will not be too plush or too ex- | , president of the was cooperating to its utmost in fr Mass. manufacturer, whose shov- in the West wpe agree USHMAN, second i to go on, tly R., born in Easton. Died May Y . and fo MIAMI and KEY WEST Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS Between Miami and Key West CEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P.M. Ar. tives at Miami at 12:00 o'clock Mid- night, LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 12:00 o'clock Mid. night and arrives at Key West af LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 9:00 o'clock A. M. and FREE PICK-UP and DELIVERY SERVICE FULL CARGO IN E MAIN OFFICE and WAREHOUSE: Cor. Eaton & Frencts PHONES: $2 AND $3 —~ ae