The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 1, 1952, Page 8

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturdey, Merch 1, 1952 “Ginger” Gets Bouquet From Author Of Book She Reviewed PORTLAND, ORE. WRITER SENDS APPRECIATIVE NOTE TO GINGER Though our former Society Editor Angele de T. Gingras is no longer with us, she sends. us | book reviews which are evident- ly getting national attention. Here is a letter which came to The Citizen for “Ginger” as she was better known to Key West- ers, The author of'a book “Gin- ger” reviewed, took. the time to write an appreciative letter, ‘This in itself is news. The letter to Ginger follows. We are printing it) before sending it on to her-in Wi ion where she ‘is now on «the’ Society’ staff of the Times- Dear A. deT. Gingras: ’ has just sent me an caedtone of reviews for “Elder Brother,” and I find I must take we ae, morg time fram my Rogue River Indians, in % right now for another publisher and under a pseudonym, to reply to yours. It:is a wonderful re- view-and J am ‘putting: it im- mediately in my purge to’ carry to” Pye Freelance Meeting e : AS wil at pellet ‘Stewart Halbfodk Mos . Steve. McNeill, Jo Lund, al, ~ I think I should tell you, how- -ever, that I can lay. no claims to “shattering shivery myths” or “tempering for the delicate ite of pre-teenagers”—at least Antentionally, I find that I can ‘sell..modern children on those I ‘Anew in what my own youngsters ‘i “the oiden times, moth And I did know the Chan family. “Ale Coe (father Chan) was my ’s. cook when he first ame to the United States. He Saved his money, married a pic- ture le from China and they etagh started having a a year. When Frankie I were both eleven, her father sent to China for an adopted son, antl, of course, Mrs. Coe’s seventh child, born that year, was a boy. I remember the Coe house very well, the smells rob prong in the front room and the strange cooking pots in the Kitchen, but when I thought I might look up Frankie after all these years (we both live in now) I was in for, a small shock. I took her to Tuneh, and she met me in the hotel lob- by dressed. in mink and diam- onds. I slunk down behinds the flowers hoping she wouldn't iknow my plain gabardine was three years old. ~My contact with the tong wars in those days was limited to Jim who ran the Chinese laun- dry at home. One week when he delivered the washing he told mother he -would be a day late king it up the next week; he -to: go to Portland on busi- ness. Jim never came back. The grown-ups, scandalized, later disvovered that smiling, quiet Jim was the hatchet man for his tong and that his opponent had been a little quicker on the draw, It didn't mean much to me. T only remembered Jim as the friendly little man whose pockets were always filled with liche nuts, who always stopped to inquire gravely about the health of my dolly, and who told me about his own son and little daughter my age who he hoped In Citizen © eC Se a = ! SCOUTING AROUND Troop Five celebrated _ their Eighth Birthday last Friday by mittee members to a wiener roast at Troop. Leader» Mrs. Neil Saun- ders, residence. The Scduts: demonstrated some of their out-of-doors skill by making sit-upons for thgir guests, Mrs. Jo- seph Boza, roop Committ bers, Mr. soseph Boza and Rev. Charles H. Meeker, Mrs. Charles H.,Megker, Mrs. Curry Harris, Rogers, Co-Leader, Romelda ‘jnviting-friends, parents, and Com- | Chairman, Troop Committee mem- . Joaquin Godinet, Mrs. Betty Shep- Officer. Radio Advanced To Warrant pard, visiting scout from Baltimore | and Madeline Curry former troop member. Mr. and Mrs. Boza who are Troop’s activities, filmed the inves- sin. girls receiving their membership cards and Year Pins. After cut- ting the birthday cake, gift of Mrs Harris, we were shown the movie record of the troop for the past year. This included our camping trip, our work in the Polio Drive our Christmas Party at the Boza residence, and the Troop march- ing in the last parade. Gloria Boza, Kathleen Cates, On- éliai Caraballo, Edna Lois Deland, Carolyn Jenkins, Carmen Lopez, Rachel Mattingly, Jean Weather- ford and Pearl Sosin were the girls receiving Year Pins. Other troop members attending were Di- ane Jenkins, Lucretia Godinet, June Weech and Barbara Sawyer. Troop Five is sponsoted by the Congregational Church Sunday School, has a wonderful troop com- mittee and a meeting room all its own. We are working on the Bird Badge in Nature and the Foot Rambler Badge in out-of-doors. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Whiting are assisting us with the Bird Badge. No Eclipse For US. NEW YORK. —(4).—The total eclipse of the sun, Feb. 25, was not visible in the United States The path of totality cr ed Cen- tral Africa and Arabia, and end- ed in Central Asia. The maximum duration of totality was three minutes, and occurred near Khartoum, Anglo- Egyptian Sudan. American as stronomers went to Khartoum to make observations. Industrial output in Britain in 1951 was 45 per cent above the 1958 level. to bring from China some day. So you see, I mustn't take credit for trying to revolutionize the fiction writer's’ guild. I wrote about my former friends. Thank you so much for a re- view which has given me much pleasure. 6810 S. E. Yamhill Portland, 16, Oregon Feb. 19, 1952 keeping a Movie Record of the titure of Emily Harris, Cecilia Pu- eble, Paula Warren and Pearl So- Movies also were made of the ~-|hopes he saw “no signs of any Key. West. DeRécher, whd has been serving at the U. | Petty, Officer’ to Warrant: Officer, radio electrician School, inance Department, USS Sea Cat, and the USS Diablo. He equipment aboard the Diablo, and the Sea Cat. | During the war he was on a successful war patrol in the vice, He is the son of Mrs. Rose A. Smith, 104 Locust street, ° ‘Steady Drop In Food Prices \ RAISES HOPE | | THEY MAY STAY DOWN By JERRY T. BAULCH n i | WASHINGTON \® — The govern- ed group of workers in the cit ment reports a slow but steady |says Ford Brand, member of the decline in food prices and cautious- | Board of Control. He said in ¢ ly offers the hope they may stay |recent speech that on an hourly down for a while. basis, the $1,200 paid annually to TORONTO aldermen are “the most (#)—Toronto’s expk The possibility also was voiced|the aldermen averages 37 cents that the next living cost index, due |an hour. late in March, will show a drop = ® for the first time in months. A full-grown menhaden, a species But Ewan Clague, commissioner | of fish, weighs about three-fourths of statistics in the Labor Depar- ment, said in expressing such of a pound and ‘measures’ a foot in length. per cent during the week ended Feb. 26. This is 1.3 per cent below go and 2.9 per cent be- |real downward trend” in prices. | “My opinion is that retail prices | won't go very far in either direc. /2 month a | tion during the next few months,” |!0w January, 1951, ihe said. 6. Clague said wholesale com Hope for lower prices, or at least | molly Lia me pe Hs y . ih i pelntive stability, seen in sev-|Cent in Me ae see as. ce eral quarters Friday: : Deena decline for | cent. 1. Clague told a news conference | Clague told newsmen that while food prices dropped 2.1 per cent | prices of raw materials have been between mid-January and mid- | geciining steadily from the record February. They fell 0.9 per cent | pj s the tuying splurge in the last half of January and an | yight after the Korean War started, fadditional 1.2 per cent between | prices of processed or semi-finish- | Jan, 28 and Feb. 15. ed goods are rising | orld War II, American Area, and the Asiatic-Pacific 1 Adele Beck, Mantua Terrace, New Jersey. They have two sons, Paul Joseph, Jr. UNDERPAID ALDERMEN | ta fictional mutiny Electrician | TWELVE YEARS OF COMMENDABLE SERVICE as an enlisted man has paid off for Paul J. DeRoeher; S. Fleet Sonar School as an instructor, was recently advanéed fri “He ‘entered Naval Service in: 1940; and. served aboard submarines from 1941 to 1951, when-he was transferred-to.the Sonat’ received letters of commendat Japanese-Kurile area als. Westerville, New Jersey. He Government Reports Slow But HOLLYWOOD een oe eevee se ‘sj NOTE! By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD = (w— Caine Mutiny” whether the U Navy approves or not The producer has had seve conferences with Navy b: ) the story, which is an account aboard a U {ship in World War II. So far, | Navy has turned thumbs down | co-ope 3 on such a project “We're working on a script now | dnd Til show it to them,” be I am convinced t ‘the story is pro - like their co - operation, beca they could provide me with ship I need — an old 4-stacl destroyer. “But right now I am of a mi to go ahead with the What convinces me is watching best - The Caine Mutiny’ is oroaching the sales made by ‘Gone With the Wind.” Guild at the Palladium Dan Producer ; , | Stanley Kramer plans to go ahead 18 with the filming of the best selling eral said | Kramer. “I hope they will approve | it, Navy. 1 would picture, whether the Navy appreves or not. seller lists. I am informed Party of the week was the annual tossed by the Screen Writ- alace. This is always one of the it. (Mighty Fifth Column Being VIENNA \—A danger signal is - going up over Western Europe to- day. It is not a war alarm. It is @ Warning against a Stalinist Tro- jan horse. ‘a long A mighty fifth column is being organized with utmost care to {serve Kremlin imperialism. ft is A, - Tange: program. .Die- Stammed, this Trojan horse would have its belly in Central Eu- Tope, and its feet reaching out in 'many directions — tg Italy, to Western Germany, to Greece, the Middle East. = * Non - Communists, including many Americans in official ca- Reackea ay the fifth column has | reac! Porpdrtions of alarm and | is still building — Srehilly. The | Soviets have:a vhain of command | running from the Kremlin through | the Cominform and into a tight or- | Vienna. a new. slogan from the East: “Unity of action.” Coupled with | this will be the: cry: ‘National re- | sistance.” This’ already is being » * OfficialU. Sv Navy Prog USN, of 90-1 Pgindiana,.,4 ‘Chief ; Duty stations have been: ‘the USS ,R-18, on which he served four years, USS R-16, USS Carp, the New London Naval Ord- ion for his work in electronics He earned the American Defense Ser- is married to the former May , and Thomas Wayne, 3. clared he was a pebble - kicker, the Gary Cooper - Jimmy Stewart type who kicks imaginary pebbles jas he tells the gal he loves. her. Sdmund Gwenn testified that he was a chin - chucker, the lovable old rascal who was nice to chil- dren but had a penchant for lar- ceny. Lloyd Bridges admitted to being a drummer and twitcher; he said he played the hero's brother ver | who always cracked up in time of | of stress. S.]| The. biggest laugh came when the | Dan Dailey arrived in an old pair on |of pants and a T-shirt, looking for all the world like a tall Marlon Brando. His specialty: “I sweat.” He added: ‘An’ I allus talk like this so peepl can tell wh’ I'm say- an’ Other secrets of success: Never standing up straight; muscle flex- ing and scratching. Dailey’s rou- tine brought roars of laughter-from the onlookers, who were well aware of the Brando school of acting. Here's a riddle about the Acad- emy nominations. It's offered by Humphrey Bogart: ‘The actor and actress, director and. writers of ‘The African Queen’ were nomi- nated for Oscars. If all the com- ponent parts of a picture are nom- inated, they why isn’t the picture itself?" Bogart hinted that big studio’ton- niving had something to do with S. hat use the ker ind the ap- nce | applied to the Middle East, but it | jis also to te applied to Italy and | France and perhaps to Western | Germany. Its eentral theme will be “resistance” to the United States. | The unity of action campaign is | to be directed largely at labor in | estern Europe.. The “national re- | tance” Will play. upon national- ist sentimepgay using former Fas- | cists, Nazis.and any others who | fre opportunist ‘enough or unwary | enough to co-operate. The Commu- | hists will remain in the back- | ground. | The burden of “unity of action” | will be benefits for labor. Every- | thing that labor considers ideal, everything that is out of labor's reach, at least in present - day Europe, will be promoted by the campaign. The immediate aim will be to lure workers into unions controlled by the Communists, with strong emphasis upon the strategic areas —metal workers, communications workers, transportation workers, agricultural workers .When dom- ination is achieved the Commu- nists will have a powerful weapon for inducing paralysis whenever they strike. The Communist - dominated un- ions, meanwhile, will be used for ganization’ with headquarters in | Soon, the ‘world will he ee fort. ‘Organized With Utmost Care For Kremlin Imperialism By WILLIAM L. RYAN * Visitors At Key West C. OFC. s R. Albee, Miami, Fla J. A. MeLaughan and Mrs. F. B. Willi Mr. South Bend, India Mr.-and Mrs. P. L. Ruud, Lake Bronson, Minn. Louis E, Woodcock, Austini, Tex Dr: and Mrs. O. .B.. Storjen, Hallogk, Minn ? Miss Gatherine Hudsori, States? ville, NeG : Miss Ida. :B.' Bates, Asheville, N. C Miss Laura Meychant, Raleigh, N.C Charles: A. Nutter, ‘Southwick, Mass Mrs. L. M. McKeel, Va. G. N. Brooks, Cambridge, Md. Frederick E. Smith and party, Rockford, Mass. M. Disbrow, Holland, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Worth, Crown Point, Ind. John Yates, Nashville, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Groves, Nashville, Tenn. Samuel Honig, Nassau, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Marteni, Detroit, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon M. Her- ring, Washington, D. C. Cc. T. Wright, Rockford, Ill. Hillis Pence, Rockford, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Springer, Oneida, N. Y. other Soviet purposes. Nagging pressure upon governments for an end to defense efforts, and end to the remilitarization of Western Ger- many, resumption of East - West trade on terms favorable to the Soviet Union. At the same time the unions, co - ordinating with other Commu- nist - supported organizations, will be an instrument for spreading un- rest‘and for slowing down wherever possible the Western defense ef- Norfolk, 2. The Agriculture Department | Another point on the darker side ‘eported farm product prices | was voiced in Congress. A special dropped nearly 4 per cent during |committee warned that “economic Snow Falls In Georgia : highlights of the spring, banquet s ni season, Most of the other dinners feature lots of dull speeches, in| Your Grocer SELLS that the same period. The mid-Fetru- | depression’ will hit Detroit, auto |" . | ary farm price level was 8 per eaineries center of the nation, if which winners Mt tae awards ane STAR * BRAND a cent below the peak of February | civilian production continues to be | °VCT¥ON® an hadhas chauffeurs i i a year ago but still well above |cut faster than defense work is Bul tie cmolere, A ase Duy T AMERICAN COFFEE | 4 any other February on record. | made available a sprightly show exposing the foi | and CUBAN ft | bles of Hollywood. Highlight of the program was a panel discussion by 3, Secretary of Agriculture Bran- | Government advisers said 32,000 —TRY A POUND TODAT——— nan, testifying before the Senate | already are out of work in Detroit Agriculture Committee, reported | and another 37,500 may be laid off good prospects that high yields will | by July. The government is con 1ola food prices down. That de- | sidering legislati gend: mostly on weather, he | labor surplus added. | sreererers z | 4. 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