The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 24, 1949, Page 2

Christmas has so firm a hold on our imag- inatidns, often, particularly in the days of the 1930-40 depression, we have spoken of Christ- mas cheer when there was little or nothing to qieke us cheerful. But we Key Westers. have much to be cheerful about this Christmas. Of e ix ee courage in Zachary, coeaee all es. = tee sonia | faa Jeng aa ase ituall ‘ o! i ‘ : t 50. Ci ly now. of Chicas a to the Christian world, but ‘ : " a ag temper that was in we are considering the event economically, the | , A ss : oe Boel v abundance of material things. for which we “should be thankful as well as cheerful. But cheer, whether at Christmas or an’ os os other time, comes to the man who has created i : “Marryin’ you?” Valse repeated, Saties, cards «f ihanke, reeniuston® | cheer for others. In that regard, no other group “ , 2 and his voice was rough now. ante Reticws, pocm: will ve 2 : ‘By heavens Armin, that she'll aie ome © ue _» in Key West has more cause to be cheerful 3 % never do! ae you Las ; mt mee hen from " . We Werives ‘ares conte @ line. | than the firemen at the No. 1 Fire Station. For He — ee gpm = open forum and invites dis- an of local © onth, they worked diligently re- min Zachary sat down again, Jectn more than a m Y rather suddenly, and passed a publiah anonymous pairing toys for neédy children, who, other- handkerchief across his face. wise, would have had occasion to grieve over Batter have a drink, 2 the thought that Santa Claus had forgotten : oo : as fr Fim: He, watched whe i 'y drank gu them. Tots have not the mentality to go to ‘ t | Zac ary drank it iat 8 ule, the bottom of things. Had they not gotten toys, oe : he ee ed, 80 in ed fuse neon i i See “ ways did. n.” through the kindly efforts of the No. | firemen, : : 4 , =r ye their minds would not have been able to de- gil te ‘ ee: a tne ee clid ne vidence of their own eyes, was rmine why Santa Claus had remembered - y DAVID A. GAUSE:idinef Raymondville, Tex., struggles with. | in_the faces of the other men as other children and had forgotten them. The | iso¢ men who haveustthrown him to the pavement after a | mind was busy. Five minutes firemen repaired hundreds of toys, painted-ond | five-block chase throygh, streets crowded with Christmas shop- later he was in the saddle riding polished many of them, so that, in many in-} pers in Lubbock, Tex,;;,Gause was arrested on a charge of theft ae Gun. Pee stances, it would have required an eye more from person after a feodstcre manager accused him of snatching caliente sooty gion discerning than a tot’s, to see that they were | 52.000 in cash register-receipts from him, Left to right. holding | his foreman was brief enough. an aoe Gause, are Milton God; Liovd Shuffield and Tommy Irvin. “Send Marsh and Huff here,” 4 = ki Good and Irvin are siat@employes. Emmett Shockley. reporter- he directed. “I want to talk to Other Key Westers were active also in photographer of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, happened to be i Se Wie eileen Oe seeing that the needy in Key West had a on the street maling? Christmas shopping pictures when the easiness in the two cowboys as cheerful Christmas. That spirit, in ing to chase passed him. He joined the pursuit and made this on the i they came in. make others happy, has been prevalelftin Key | ‘Po! Picture. Gh MANETS MMe =~ and dauchter, arrived Friday “So you lied to me,” he said. “We didn’t aim to, boss, not West since its earliest days. As The Citizen a ere cue peeks sper ‘We sure at ‘ “You hi bury him,” Zach- has remarked before, the hospitality for which K W Pf from Gulfport, Miss. Mr. Menden-| ary Said PUY rat Si the South was famous before the Civil War, ey esl in: dez will leave after the holidays) part of your report. And yet he | 8ra’ still prevails in Key West. , to join his vessel in Gulfport,| walks in here.” | . po ‘ thie! Marsh jerked a little, nervously. - Every street in the city is emblazoned with Davs Cone By wien oe ems peter ix, We ain't lyin’.” he protested. the atmosphere of Christmas. The feeling of i! — tific work. Mrs. Mendendez and Bary 2 wore We sure shot, like we i ‘ . joy and gratefulness is in the air. Key West- AS TAKEN FROM FILES daughter will remain for a few “Tl let it go at that,” Zachary bear Readers joy and g Y OF THE CITIZEN OF | months. agreed dryly. “The fact remains, | chi ers generally are prosperous and are in a | DECEMBER 24, 1939 The writers of The Oracle join the inhe: t Yuletide in position to observe or celebrate Christmas with | ssid ciuuneussinnnnene | Joseph Peacon was an arrival = : - ard oe a og ‘ Pa Merr: an abundance of material things, Joy reigned unconfingd,jn Key in®the city Sunday from Wisshine- . SOVIETS CLAIM | ermy in Manchuria used busem | ~ : wishing od y ‘ ; ton, D.C. coming to spend the} Continued From Page One) | cuinea pigs for germ experiments | ome West over the Christmas holiday { According to the Russians, the foretie® Jap army designed flea-pecked bombs to seatter plague and breed bacteria for widespread de STROU@ But we should give thought also to the weekend asa large number of holiday season with his relatives by several Japanese generals now s being tried by the Russians for! spiritual meaning of Christmas. The Citizen, | social affairs were reported in 4nd host of friends, eine : ns i i i i bservance of the year’s humbe: ae alleged war crimes. e accusa- hundreds of times since it has been under its | observance of the year's Rumber, 44... John R. Williams arrived] tions follow a statement by Gen- .present ownership, has advised its readers to : from Miami Sunday to remain|eral MacArthur's diplomatic ad-| struction of crops. The Russians oe 3 ; ; i ‘ 3 is ll this was done on secret} © to church on Sunday. Be sure to go to- al Street's White Way was S¢V¢ral days and is the guest of| visor charging that 374,000 Jap |S) @ g Y: 9 Duval Street's White Way, was Mr. and Mrs. Allan Knowles at} saldiers ave believed to have died! orders from Emperor Hirohite morrow, when the significance of the Nativity | turned on at 6:00 o'clock last Sat- 10: "oe on Southard street. |in Soviet prison camps. 376,000} According to the Russians, the | } : hrtet mas THE ORACLE rrr LABOR VERSUS COMMUNISTS : a : ~ urdav night for the first’of daily " : The American Federation of Labor | will be expounded in every church in our Is- spotlight ge dhe hein thee: alse ; Jap war prisoners captured by erm. progam ie, Series, ? a . A ‘i 2 Bree : Sten ue h ‘oday The Citizen says in‘an]} the Russians are missing. [the Soviet Union, the Mongotien; end the Congress of Industrial Organiza- | land City. oughtare ‘n town for the duration editorial paragraph: CRS ans tcians are counter-! republic, China and other states! Ai) @eegems ons quote a high officer’ thom bawe joined with other labor organ- oatioms te form a new non-Communist Trede Union International. The action wee token im @ conference of Free World Leber, Reid in London, and is designed to t ap en organization to rival the Com- mo age fed World Federation of Trade ne The trouble with most budgets is that |ing from Tampa starting the new i nicethabit, but it doesn’t set the] , schedule which includes ‘one: trip t th . fu : A é LEGAL TAX EVASION The vessel brought one first and Last Times Today C ( : p IS € p and Key Westers generally a Merry Christmas. | Steamship Cuba of the P'&O. house on fire.” i | they operate only on paper. weekly from Tampa, and:one trip on second cabin passenger. for | : Key West and. 129 first:vand six | Northwest Stampede ° President Truman has again spoken out in| second cabin passengers for Ha- | with ‘ 3, re I retur Thursday | RE, JAMES CRAIG favor of increasing government income through ee t he Lacie ; ‘hursday i ACK OAKIE . s * afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. 7 Technics Western higher taxes. In an article in the New York | Coming: EVERYBODY - | | Seme question arises whether the pew wonteation will be able to include all hose opposed te Commynist-led labor egetications, There are Christian unions the continent of Europe, among whom the Catholics are predominant, including sped Belgium, Italy and France. The Preset Reve get yet given their approval Finally, The Citizen wishes all its readers [°! the winter season. ¥"~ }.. “Pobacco chewing isn’t such 4] ing with. the charge that Japan's! The, Hus S. S. Co., arrived Sunday morn- Air weekly from Havana to: Miami. STRAND aisione, DOES IT Times, Godfrey N. Nelson observes, “There is} Ernest Hemingway Ss son at least one means by which the Federal gov- rene oe ee Bru I re ne Cuba Sunday morni ernment could not only stimulate competitive | yana, where they will spe <a business but could derive very substantial rev- } eral days, and possibly ang) 7 Mm NRO enues. Tax the income of all businesses con- | "2"! before returning. pete iirc acho ah ducted for profit, both public and private; elim- E. Last Times Today and Mrs. J. L. Meyd the Pew organization, but the Belgian | inate tax exemptions, irrespective of kind of $$ | BLUE SKIES (hrtetian eetoniets have done so and it is | ownership or form of organization. | with ved that the Ital sti allie oualh . P - g i : Your Grocer SELLS That:Good | yiyc crosny, FRED ASTAIR je Malans wi ollow suit, ‘Cooperatives and their owners, for ev- STAR BR AND 1 s0AN CAL ei rt BILLY i The American delegates to the con-| ample, should be taxed like ordinary business | ‘ reakaiselon: musta erene@ guert that the conclusions defin- | corporations on their entire earnings, and on AMERICAN COFFEE Ccoming: AQUI ESTA tely accepted the ideals of this country in | distributions made out of earnings.” and CUBAN ay JUAN COLORADO i nection wR fabor organizations, The In this connection, Representative Noah TRY A POUND TODAY! | ®"' "S..NG Simewes i executive board will include one delegate m Africa, ene from Japan, one from india. one from tran, two from Great Fir ita. ene from Cuba, one from Chile, me f the West Indies, one from Aus- tretie-New Zealand, five from Europe and four from North America. The North businesses of this kind, including government- owned enterprises “operating on taxpayers’ money, generally paying no interest .. . and Overseas’ ‘Transportation paying no taxes on their earnings even though they compete directly with privately-owned Company, Ine. companies.” Americ lelegates will lude 2 fi i a “ Bat ‘ oa og i ’ sea Sipe The government power developments, in- Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service Those trem Rurope will be stlosetid ro cluding the rural electric cooperatives, are per- : between. . h fect examples of the last type of business. In ndin , Ger vy, France, the Bene- | N aot ind a au e Bene- | ottect, all the taxpayers of the country are sub- MIAMI and KEY WEST We-do hot bow the exact purpose of sidizing the electric bills of a favored few. The Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS he new Federation but presume that it lass of the tax revenue that private utilities Between Miami and Key West coks t@ coae@inate the efforts of labor would pay on the same vouume of business is - throughout the world to improve its posi- 8g blow to atates oe — EXPRESS SCHEDULE ‘ " i all the taxpayers must kick in to make up the (No Stops En Route) n. Just what powers the international enc LEAVES .KEY WEST DAILY A Remarkable Value e New *. Up-to-e ganization wil have is not clear byt the : ‘ 5 ree CEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P. M. , powntbilityeexiats (hat, in the course of The legal tax evasion now going on is in- rives at. Miami at 12:00 o'clock Mid- Definitions are clear and concise Aged bemdtes he . ‘ojee | defensible. Mr. Mason's bill seems to be the night. are of ood Aa ears, may become a very potent voice ‘ e: LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT — oy in world affairs, Thus, the representatives | %*Wer toc problem which has become critical. SUNDAYS), at 12:00 o'clock, Mid, tonyms, Forms of Address. sed ober — night and. arrives at Key Wes abor, fram the free countries of the Few office-holders resign from jobs 6:00 o’clock.A. M. 928 PAGES earth, move toward a form of internation- with good salaries and little work. LOCAL SCHEDULE . my ip order to oppose a more evil form of al eae (Stops At All Intermediate Points), 52,000 DEFINITIONS " 7 LEAVES KEY WEST t ° erm@tionaliam emanating from Moscow. NEXT YEAR LOOKS GOOD CEPT SUNDAYS) at 8:00 o'clock aren deities SS A. Sains aaa at Miami at 4:00 Religious freedom does not mean the The consensus of opinion seems to be eaves icin . AMI DAILY (EXCEPT same thing in every country. that 1950 ought to be a good year—as SUNDAYS) at 9:00 o'clock A. M. and HANDSOMELY BOUND —— good as this year, or perhaps a little bet- aig at Key West at 5:00 o'clock New, tamiasted cloth. binding for This is the time of ~ year vane pen ter. a 5 to keep cien despite a oy ple begin to fall into cold water throug The key to the economy during the overs are blue, with title on a rich thin ice past couple of years—and very likely dur- PREE PICK-UP and DELIVERY SERVICE gold background priated in dark red. ——— ing the coming year—does not fit all doors. FULL CARGO INSURANCE Business in general is good; in specific in- || MAIN OFFICE and WAREHQUSE: Cor. Eaton & Francis Sts. Advertiaing is telling the largest num- her of persons what they want to buy, whether they know it or not. poor. stances it ranges from very good to nearly PHONES; 92 and 93