The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 18, 1949, Page 2

’ , Florida, as second class matter " THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is exclusively enti ‘we dispatches cred ed in this paper, here. rehes 5 cents @ line. ais- MONOGRAPH The Congress, Washington, D. C. | (,entiemen: The idea that the Nation, in the ‘ of its prosperity, should reduce ite indebtedness, hits you folks as a nowel idea. Instead of imposing further taxes in order to lower the public debt, indulging in the familiar pas- taxpayers’ al- Remember the | are time of inereasing the heavy burdens. ‘ ec and the ass. THE ORACLE —_ MARSHALL'S GREAT RECORD The resignation of Secretary of State Marshall removes a public of- al who has won general approval by » eminent services to the nation. Ax Chief of Staff during the great sar General Marshall, in the opinion of mpetent erities, made a major contribu- m to the success of American arms, He enerally considered one of the chief srehitects of military victory. Subsequently, when asked to assume the onerous duties of the State Depart- ment, the General did not refuse. He en- tered an area of activi and subjected if to partisan criticsm which was ong inarriving. Probably, he suf- feved somewhat in the general esteem ugh his connection with a partisan bobition We also wish to call attention to the feet that General Marshall represents the raw hate,” who were so vigorously criti- a by columnists and radio commenta- re at the conclusion of the war. He is vthy representative of a group of men whee «experience, training and _ intelli- yenee made possible the success of Ameri- ' thelligerency. For their great contribu- ‘ to the welfare of their nation and the : tien of this Republic they were swetyned and denounced by publicity- henting scribblers and orators. : The General, in his illness, is entitled . b ssure of retirement and it should ; rthim to know, if he needs as- > ee, that he hasa large place in the sffection and respect of the peo- ‘ his country 600 BILLS IN ONE DAY Something like 600 bills were drop- « inte the House of Representatives on (iret day of the session, with Represen- Chester E. Merrow, of New Hamp- taking the lead with billsto give 1.900,000,000 to China, $7,000,000,000 the Navy, $7,000,000,000 to the Air ree, another to outlaw the Communist Party and a fifth to amend the Constitu- tion eo that the President can make treaties wer the support of a majority of both Morises of Congress, : Of course, like most of the other bills * tuced, the measures sponsored by Mr Merrow have little chance of getting —#oywhere, In fact, the chances are that “Tow bills, Introduced by Republicans, will Pet a» far as firet base, Moreover, most ‘ mare introduced for the benefit of 1 ty in the district involved, We have long since learned to let eome people talk without interrupting them; the conversation ends so much Boones FLORIDA’S JUVENILE COURTS Florida’s Children’s Commission has issued a 9,000-word report on the special- ized juvenile courts in Ftorida, after a study that was begun on August 2, 1948, and concluded on September 20, 1948. The commission has summarized its recommendations and will consider them for final action at conferences to be held in March. The commission recommends that juvenile courts be granted jurisdietion in all matters of a judicial nature concerning children. It learned, during the study, that in some areas of the state problems per- taining to children are handled in adult courts, It will be recommended to the legis- lature that a constitutional amendment be submitted to the voters of Florida to pro- vide for the creation of children’s courts with original and exclusive jurisdiction in all cases involving juveniles, Primary object of the investigation by the commission is to try to aid the move- ment to reduce juvenile delinquency in Florida. It is believed that delinquent children should be dealt with by judges whose entire official time is devoted to dealing with juveniles. In that way, the commission believes, action can be better coordinated in the fight against delin- quency. The commission recommends that children’s courts should not lose juris- diction in cases of Serious offenses com- mitted by juveniles. The commission main- tains that this provision is of especial im- portance in handling cases of juveniles in the 16-and-17-year-old group. If all races were, in fact, equal, there would be no world problems because civili- zation and progress would be equally divided throughout the world. WAR PROMOTED SLAVERY Slavery, itis suggested, wasa de- velopment of warfare and the experience of the recent war indicates that future fighting will result in untold numbers of slaves. Since the end of the war with Ger- many, the United States, France and Great Britain, following an agreement made by the four big powers, repatriated all Ger- man prisoners-of-war. Russia, on the other hand, admitted holding 890,532 German prisoners-of-war early in 1947 and, up to March of last year, reported the release of only 447,331 prisoners. There have also been reports that the Russians are holding thousands of Japan- ese soldiers in what amounts to captivity. These men are, no doubt, working as slaves of the Communist regime. While there was some justification for the devastated countries of Europe compelling German _prisoners-of-war to perform part of the task of rehabilitation, one finds it difficult to believe that there is any justification for retaining enemy sol- diers in captivity at this time. The United States has asked the Soviet Government to give information as to the number of war prisoners still held in Russia, togeth- er with information concerning war prisoners who have died while in the Soviet Union. You can’t tell what you an emergency until you gency. would do in meet an emer- OUR LADY SENATOR “The little fellow has a right to eco- nomic security,” declares Senator Mar- garet Chase Smith, of Maine, just as much as the big man who seeks to pro- tect his interests by requesting beneficial ‘legislation. The woman Senator thought the Gov- ernment, in intervening in behalf of the economic welfare of the people, is not necessarily following a course of exped- iency. There is something to what the lady from Maine says. Everybody knows that, for many years, the spokesman of big business, whether financial or indus- trial, could get a hearing in Washington, but the unorganized mass of human beings, making up the bulk of the popu- lation, had no effective voice at the Capitol. As Mrs. Smith asserts, “little man” has just as much right to seek his economic welfare and to ask legislative favors asthe representatives of what is popularly termed big business. The hearing accorded the pleas of the “little men” is not diminished by the fact that, when it comes to voting, they have numbers, the so-called THE KEY WEST CITIZEN MEET: .THE PRESIDENT: ‘a (Second of a Four-Part Feature) TT only girl Harry ‘Truman ever had was Bess Wallace. They had met as little: tots; when both attended the Presbyterian Sunday School. school, and were gr and Bess were married in 1919. born in 1924, 1Aa They’ were ‘in ted from high school together. the ‘same grade in elementary Harry Their only child, Margaret, was is equivalent to a board of com- missioners or supervisors. | “It isn't business and it isaie| \ politics 40 run this county into debt.” Truman said during the course of his first campaign, “I want it to be made a felony to; spend money the county hasn't on hand.” He campaigned fre- The Trumans mowed. to Kansas City, where Harry went into | quently after that on a program, the haberdashery business with an Army buddy. similar luxuries were selling well in those days, and for a while the store flourished. Then came the deflation of the 1920's. store failed. Eventually, all creditors were paid in full. The But more than Silk shirts and / of economy and of receiving full value for money expended. Defeated for reelection to the county court two years later, Truman ran for presiding judge a decade later. when Harry Truman went to the Senate, he was!/in 1926, and won with Prender- still paying installmént#‘of the $20,000 deficit. His friends say he’s prouder of having’'met his debt than of anything else he has done. Another Army buddy, James. Prendergast, helped Truman to a’ new start. Jim went to his uncle Tom, then political boss of Kan- sas City, with a recommendation - CHAPTER 22 M* sidewalk debate ended in a compromise. I took a cab and went to the office. Lf-I was jucky there might be something there connected with the couple | of phone calls I'd made to Washing- ton, D. C. At that point in the jigsaw puzzle I needed a break. A great big break. Either one of them, or both of them, could give me that break. At least I ‘al iy they. could. And so I vali fingers mentally crossed when unlocked my office door and pushed it open. The first thing I saw was the yellow Western Union envelope on-the floor at my feet. It had ben slipped through the mail slot in the door, I picked it yp.quickly and saw at once that it was dated Washington, D. C. I read the wire; swore out loud, and read it again, It said: Before asking Paula what would would you:do first? Luck! Ted That is exactly what the: wire said, and after reading it six times I was still spinning ou} of control. I knew that it wasn’t‘any gag. And so I stared at the wire some more. I tried to figure it was in some sort of code. But after ten minutes of getting nowhere I gave that up. Yet something had to be there. If I could only make sense out of it. And then, suddenly, when the last thread of the Barnes’ sanity was about to snap, the tiny light came on way in back of my brain. It. grew and grew like the head- light of an on-rushing locomotive and then blew up silently as I let out a happy yell, and smacked a hand palm first on the desk. “Eureka!” was what came out of my mouth. “Got it, so help me. You're a louse, Ted, te make me sweat, but I love you!” After those few words I calmed down and did some more think- ing. A great big hunk of the jig- saw puzzle was in place to stay. But there was another big piece that should fit right alongside of it I mean. the piece in ‘the form ———— for Captain Harry. In 1922, Tru- ‘| man attained his first political of- fice, when he was elected to one! of the three positions on the Jackson county court. This body gast’'s endorsement. He was re- elected in 1930. As presiding judge, he was responsible for a $25,000,000 highway and public building program, the largest ever undertaken by a Missouri county. When Truman ran for United he States Senate in 1934, was of that sheet of paper covered) with Herbert Varney signatures Yd found in Cardeur’s waste Paper basket. 1 studied the paper filled with the same signature. More than ever I was positive that it was the results of efforts to improve a signature until the forgery and the original would match. Sure, I figured that out, but it didn’t tell me anything. If only I’d found at- tempts to practice René DeFoe’s signature, then maybe... A SUDDEN blinding thought crowded out all the others. I sat there stunnned for a mo- ment, and then I felt very foolish for not having come up with that thought hours before. A look at my desk clock told me I had just eight minutes before the bank where René DeFoe had opened his fifty thousand dollar account would close for the day. I used up two of those eight minutes getting out of the office and tak- ing the elevator down. Luck was with me, because somebody was just paying off a cab as I dashed gut onto the sidewalk. I grabbed it, and waved a five-dollar bill in front of the driver’s face. He earned the five with a couple of minutes to spare. The safety deposit vaults were below ground. I hurried down the stairs and over to the grill-doors. The guard looked at me and smiled politely. “Herbert Varney,” I told him. He nodded, repeated the name, and shoved a signature card under the grill-shelf for me to sign. Then he pulled open the file card cabinet drawer, and started thumbing through it..I made as though to pick up the pen. I did it very slowly. And just as slowly I dipped it in the ink well. By then the guard had stopped thumbing through the cards. He had one card half pulled out. He looked at it, and then at me. The smile slowly left his face, and his features began to harden. I put down the pen, snapped my fin- gers, and started fishing through my pockets. “Something wrong, Mister?” The guard's voice was like ice! cubes dropping on more ice cubes. And his eyes on me were twice as cold. “Yes!” I said in savage exas- peration. “Varney forgot to give me that letter of identification. Now I’ve got to go back and...” I mumbled it to a full stop as I turned and hurried back up the stairs. A hand was on my arm, and a cordial voice in my ear. “Why, hello, Mr. Barnes! j Haven't seen you in here in years. | Anything I can do for you?” I turned my ‘head to look at a pleasant enough, smiling face | that didn’t mean anything to me for a moment. And then it did. He had been a third assistant vice ‘ president, or something. Probably now he owned the joint. “Yes there is, too,” I smiled at | him. “I wonder if you could tell mie FOr ARES ~ “I'd be‘ only too’ glad to, Mr. Barnes,” he bubbled. “Could a man, or woman, pro- duce one identity and take out a checking account,” I said, “and then, say a day or two later, go downstairs and rent a savings deposit box under another name? Could that ‘be done?” “Not in this bank, Mr. Barnes,” he finally told me. “Thanks. Thanks a lot.” Unless I was completely off the beam, which of course could be, Mr. Jones, or Smith, or Kelley, or: whatever his name was, had certainly overestimated his bank! And then a taxi drifted slowly by, and seated in back, where h thought I couldn’t see him, wa: “Sore-Jaw” Franz Eurlich! One ; look at him and I-did a fat- headed thing. I shifted into high from a standing start and raced out toward the cab. A couple of cars missed me by inches, and I missed my target by a couple of feet. Two feet more and I would have yanked open that cab door and leaped inside. But Eurlich had barked at the cab driver, and the sudden burst of speed left me in the middle of the street look- ing like I was shaking hands with thin air. (To be centinued) TODAY IN HISTORY ! (Know America) 1802—Detroit ,. incorporated a town—population some 2,000. 1836—President Jackson's s cial message to Congress recom-i mends reprisals against ‘France and building up of coastal de-; ses—France had refused to, ve million dollars due us. — Indian Chief * Crazy) captures wagon train of} Horse immigrants west of the Missouri} and kills 20. i 1912—British Capt. Robert Fal- con Scott reaches South Pole after a heart-breaking trip only to find evidence there that Nor- way’s Amundsen had already been there only a month before. j are Your Horoscope TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1949) —Here is a life of success, if there! ig proper leading. in contemplation or absorbed in ambition. With education and the right life, there is great strength; without it only medi- ocre success due chiefly to want of definiteness of action. swift family! flying among Members of the fastest known birds. LEGALS x \ ro WARE PINAL 1919—The Versailles, Peace! Treaty Conference —formally| ™§,, opens. 1930-—U. S. House votes to con-} tinue the pi ming of industrial! alcohol to discourage bootlegging. 1943—German subs reported in droves off America’s . Atlantic Coast. ; i 1946—Steel industry rejects! Truman’s plan and_ strike i called. 1947 — Lieutenant Governor Thompson sworn in as Georgia governor in “battle of,, the gov- ernors”. i ! Color blindness may be citer] acquired or congenital, To AN Whom It May ¢ Notice is hereby ‘ Fl ry, for tor of the estate 0: ce , on this 17t ) ARTHUR Administrator © of Carl Curry, de LEGALS uN VoTice NA name Blorida, intend tor titious name with t Cirenit Court of M rl woops Owners, STATE OF PLO “OR MONROE COUN N CHANCERY. Case No, 11-689, FOUN EDWIN SOLLOW AVY, IR Plaintiff DIVORCE OWAY, vs .OLLY MARTIN SOLI Hant nLON LOW AY, taken as therein will wder is to 7 Week for four ¢ Weeks in The Key West Citizen, a] newspaper published ino the City of Key West. Florid 2 AND OR f January, ERED this 10qi- Do 19. ARL. R. Monroe Co By: Xathi ALLAN B: CLEA (sp) , JR {Avorn for Pee os ecu zane, SAMTTMMHVENETLAN BLEND SHUINNNNNNNNNNE™ } Massachusetts lawyer, senator, | Go the FASTEST Way secretary of state, orator, Presi Wi alate bury, N. H. Died Oct. 24, 1852. | 1813—George B. Graham, Phil-} PA i A Mi ; ciated with Bell in the first TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, | a ~ (No. 2) In Business and Poli scarcely known outside Missouri.) When he attended the He seal the nomination with e|his friend and early plurality of 262,000 votes over; mentor. @ few days otter he two opponents. He was chairman{came vice president. of the Senate sub-committee that ay | ae truly sorry. He made the railroad finance investi- | m riend.” gation which ulted in the; before and after Pearl wrote the Civil Transportation’ Truman tried to get Act of 1940. He held the hearings! in the Army. He and virtually wrote the Civil down by General of the Aeronautics Act. | George C. Marshell. chief Truman narrowly averted de- staff. because of his age. vi feat when her ran for reelection pty rhe — powry < pty + ts in 1940. The Pendergast organiza- | ci nex' tion had been smashed mia was to keep close watch leader sent to prison on an in-| government war expenditures, come tax charge. Ignoring “boss-| The Senate authorised the ism”. as an issue, Truman ran as) quiry he suggested. but a New Dealer. coining the phrase | only $15,000 insteed of the Gi “the good right arm of the Pres- | 000 he hed requested for his * ident” for himself. , mittee, Senator Truman In Pendergast’s adversity, Tru- named chairman. Me hired @ man remained loyal. “I wouldn't yer and went to work. desert a ship in distress.” he de- AP NEWFEA’ clared. “Tom Pendergast nev (Tomorrow From Senate asked me to do a dishonest deed.” | White House etive TODAY'S | Aline amet shoes ANNIVERSARIES asine i ae (Know America) | hour 1782—Danie] Webster, famed adelphia editor-publisher } ed-Graham’s Magazine, born in} Philadelphia. Died July 13.) 1894. { 1818—Nelson Ludington, Mich-| igan-Wisconsin lumber industry pioneer, born in Putnam County, | N. Y. Died Jan. 15, 1883. 1854—Thomas A. Watson, ton _ scientist-shipbuilder, DAILY SERVICE Save with oor Commetation Pine Gawd tiedets costs only 6. ples tam er eae ticket, Reputar Fare 67.19, pian tam Bos- | asso- | Hl competence te le- | om NATIONAL AIRLINES phone, born Salem, Mass. Dec: 13, 1934. 19§9—Frank J. Goodnow, po-| litical scientist, adviser to China, president of Johns Hopkins, et Brooklyn, N. Y. 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