The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1953, Page 4

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, December 11, 1953 The Key West Citizen a Onty Daily Newspaper in Key West and Menree County t 9. ARTMAN WORMAN D. ARTMAN Sid Shae ees at eel Cee ee anonymous communications. LET’S BUILD FINGERPIERS TO PROVIDE DIVERSION FOR MANY TOURISTS That's a tiptop idea, advanced by local motel own- ers, to build fingerpiers for amateur fishermen at the city- owned Mallory wharf. The Citizen has said repeatedly that our chief “industry” is the employment of civilians in the Key West Naval Base. But that employment is sure to fall off to a minimum when peace and security comes to the world. And in view of President Eisen- hower’s speech Tuesday afternoon before a United Na- tions assembly, that peace and security may come to the world shortly, With that thought in mind, Key West’s outstanding factor in our economy is our tourist trade. Our main attraction is our incomparable climate, but climate alone is not enough to attract more and more tourists and keep them here longer and longer. We must provide enter- tainment for them while they are among us, and no other thing will give them as much pleasure and create as much enthusiasm in them in being in Key West as will provid- ing them with places from which to fish. The motel men mentioned other forms of entertain- ment, all of which are good, but angling outweighs all other diversions that may be provided for tourists. It is estimated that there are more than 30 million men, wom- en and children ip the United States who like to fish. | Leading winter resorts in Florida have been aware of that fact many years. Some of them have piers devoted wholly to the accommodation of “anglers.. And what is true of winter resorts is true ‘also Of sumtner resorts. It was stated that fingerpiers at the Mallory wharf would interfere with the handling. of a ferry or ferries operating between Key West and Havana. Should that joyful day for Key Westers come to pass, the piers can be removed. But Key Westers haye had their hopes raised high and then dashed to earth by proposals or supposed pro- posals to run ferries between the Cuban capital and Key West. The Citizen recalls that in the fall of 1941 it pub- lished its first story about what looked like a certainty that it would not be long before a Key West-Havana ferry would be in operation. In that year, the late Ste- phen Cochrane Singleton, then secretary of the Key West Chamber of Commerce, showed a Citizen reporter a let-| ter he had réceived from the president of the Gulf-At-| lantic Transportation Company. In that letter, the presi-| dent said he “hoped” to have the ferry operating by June ten TARGET FO am Ss forum and invites discussion of public issues mary will not publish | I Lr. we? Chapter 16 MORRISSEY was not hot and bothered; he was brisk and determined and his words were “How are things, Marty? I heard about you going down for Asana? I see you came rough without getting hurt.” “They didn’t have anything to go on except a suspicion that I wasn’t aooperating. But you aren’t here to talk about my life and loves: you're on the trail of that letter you gave me.” “Did the cops get it?” Martin shook his head. “Cloud 1as a picture of it, made at the Record office, though. He wants to get his hands on the original. It’s too bad about that mistake.” “Tt was the girl,” Morrissey said. “I told Cloud she’d made a mis- také. I remember what you said.” “Where's that letter, Marty?” “I had to put it where I can’t lay hands on it in a hurry. If ev- | erything goes right I'll try to get | it for ou later.” “Tell me where it is and Fl our someone after it.” “No.” Morrissey leaned forward abruptly. “How much do you want? I’ve already dropped plenty of 1945. Eight and one-half years have passed since a copy of that lette? was published in The Citizen, and during that time we have had many brilliant flare-ups about the supposed coming of a ferry. The Caribe Queen was glam- orized and died of glamorization. Yes, let us continue to hope we will get a ferry, but, while hoping, let us be practical. Let us build the pro- posed fingerpiers to provide a diversion that has many, many devotees among tourists. gaat ia Most smokers quit several times a day. ecesgeneasiceeteesaisiniesiuisties ieee tides The couple that hasn’t seen tough days doesn’t ap- preciate the value of the dollar. ossword Puzzle ACROSS 28, Is able Vigor 29. One indefinitely AISTSHBIRIATS|SMETTAIB] CIE MEAL (BEI BRIU/E| AIGA) 4 Fresh-wate: lake 8. Afresh 13. Wedding TIEINJE!T] band SLUR MEMIO/DIE |. MSIOIN] EINISMBAILIAITIEMEEIRI | [AICTE BE NIAIMIE JOMES [E/N] Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie 5. Creek . Ur; 8. Insect 9. Negative tantalum. 19, Help wanted 20. Female ruff 21. Belog ing to that gir! 24 River bottom 35. Exceeding!y 26. 27. That which an ani 44. Therefore 45. Foreign 49, Be aware 51. Wicked 52. Salutation oT el | 1. Tablet 2 Slender finial 3. Went by 4 Blunders 10.Come in” Ti 11. Tired 16. Large weight 17. Her brother a ol PCE in this deal, but I'll go for another thousand. Take it or leave it.” “Just for that,” Martin said, “T may never give it back to_you. What I dislike most about Ennis is that he thinks he can bribe me. I haven’t got anything against having money, but I am particu-|ful po! lar how I get it.” “I want the letter, Marty. Get that straight, because I'm not fooling.” * Martin was nearing the point of | exasperation. |, “We're not getting anywhe: he said. “I've outlined the situa- | tion as plainly as I know how. | Youll have to make the best | of it.” “Be good to yourself, Marty. You know how much trouble I can make if someone crosses me. | You wouldn't want any more problems tham you've already got. <5 +, Another Grave By DON CAMERON “Get out,” Martin “Get out before there’s trou right here, with me making it.” “You're not being smart.” Mor- rissey stood up, buttoning his coat; neither his face nor his eyes betrayed the slightest emotion. “Most people think twice before turning on me.” Martin glowered at the door after it had closed behind Mor- rissey. He had made a dangerous enemy, but far from bein, t about it, he was glad. He hed More than a slight suspicion that Morrissey had murdered Searle; and now that an open break be- tween them had been brought about by the gambler himself, he would enjoy trying to prove it. cc minutes after Morrissey had gone the phone rang again. Interrupted in pleasant specula tions charting the successive by which his late caller might Maneuvered toward the electric chair, Martin answered with a A liquid burbling sound in the receiver startled him; it ended in an explosive sob and then a hoarse voice struggled through and said thickly, “Lee. Oh, Lee, you've just got to help me.” “What's 2” Martin asked, involuntarily mimicking Dexter's manner of speaking. For the voice belonged to Clarabelle Messmer; its husky plaint called up her like- ness as vividly as if she had been in the room, blowsy and muddled and quite drunk. “T'm so frightened, Lee. An aw- was here most of the afternoon trying to make me say things I didn’t want to. 'm sure he thinks I killed Richard. I can’t sleep or anything, I'm so worried.” “There's nothing to worry about.” “That’s what you always say. But ever since that horrid re- Porter was here terrible things have been happening. Now I'll never get any of that money. And you'll have to get that letter from him se I can burn it up before he aes ee to make more pronbie so police won't suspect him.” ap r He said, “You're talking to King now. “Yes, that’s his name, Lee. Wil- ton King or something like that. He lives in that apartment where r Richard passed away and 1 ope he goes to prison because he was always trying to make trou- ble for Richard.” “This is King,” Martin repeat- ed loudly. “I'm not in prison yet. | 's room, and he isn’t | I'm in here.” “You're—King? “Martin King,” said Martin pa- tiently. “Remember the nice chat we had the other day? It's too bad things didn’t work out the way we thought they would.” “Why are you in Lee’s room if he isn’t there?” ON A ddd tttd tind Annual Christmas ... Ear To USED CAR The Ground SALE By JIM COBB DUVAL STREET VIGNETTE: 'plish or to fulfill.”. . Helen Sloan We spotted Sam Harris, dean of Stetson, who is making a name for Ww, . herself as a dramatist in Miami, soe lean cere a = was a weekend visitor. One of her jval Street today with a spritely plays is being produced in Miami’s step, Reason: Sam has a Key West studio M and she’s hard at work story in the current Salt Water on a novel between her drama Sportsman magazine. They entitled classes at UM. Key Westers will it “The Lady and the Tarpon” but remember her for her stint here |we think Sam’s title was more on the Latin American News. . . dramatic — “An Acre of Tarpon.” Anybody that doesn't believe vet Story concerns a run of tarpon, in eran fire fighter Johnny Roberts jof all places, Key West harbor. has been around city hall for a Sam's been a magazine contributor long time, ought to talk to him. for a half century. . .Chaplain He remembers when the tower was Joseph Remias, who held forth at damaged in the 1909 hurricane. the Naval Station here, is now as- The storm also demolished the signed tq a troop ship operating brick fire house in the rear of the between Seattle and the far east. building, killing two fire horses. ‘A former contributor to The Citizen, That was when the city made the the Chaplain has a Christmas num- switch to motorized equipment, ber appearing in the Nippon Times Roberts says. . .‘‘Colorful Florida” . . Attorney George Brooks, after , 1954 engagement calendar has a trip aboard a shrimp trawler, two color photos of Key West and has this to say: “I came, I saw, I Monroe County. One of the scenes quit.” When we asked George if he is a shot of a Navy blimp over could vouch for the statement that Cow Key. The picture was snapped “shrimpers earn their pay,” from South Roosevelt Boulevard Brooks was pretty emphatic in near Thompson's Island. Other praise of the men who run Key photo is of the Bahia Honda Bridge West's greatest industry. . Speak- up the keys. . .We asked Ben jing of attorneys, it’s pretty com- Knepper why the Key West Com- |mon knowledge that they have a munity Chest campaign goal was |way with the English language. set at $50,285. We could understand |But, we at The Citizen office the fifty thousand, but why the thought we had caught’ city attor- $2857 “It's my lucky number,” Ben ney J. Y. Porter with his verbs explained . . . Saw Louis Dion, ac- down the other day. One of his countant at Miami Coast Guard jopinions contained the word “‘ef- headquarters on Duval Street. The fectuate.”” Dions reside in Coral Gables. . . | “He means ‘actuate’,” said a col- The January issue of “Scenic league. South” nas a two page spread on “Nope, he means, ‘to effect’,”” the Seven Mile Bridge. Photo was \said another. made from Pigeon Key. . .Met “Ain't no such word,” a third Ralph S.erra, former clerk at the opined. Naval Sta He's now stationed The city editor, which is what at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Keeps she is paid for, went to the dic- up with affairs here with The Ci- tionary. There is such a word. It tizen. Charley Smith is also work- is a good word. It means: ‘To ing at the huge Cuban base and is bring to pass, to effect, to accom- due in the city shortly. ; “I’m staying with him for a few days. We're old friends. Shall I have him call you later?” Clarabelle sniffed. “Mr. King, I wish you’c retur:. that letter I wrote for you. You can’t have any | use for it now.” Hal Boyle “You needn't worry. It won't be | used in any way.” “But I will worry. After some- | one is dead—and so tragically, too —you don't want things around to show you bore them left | Says animosity when they were alive. | It’s like speaking ill of the dead, don’t you think? “I haven't the letter with me now, but I'll see if I can get it for you.” It occurred to him that this garrulous creature might after all tell him more than anyone else about the conference that preced- ed Searle’s exit from life. At least hers would-be a different slant, and it was possible that the clue he wanted—or the pointer to the clue—lay there, unrecognized un- til now. “Supposing I call on you in the morning?” “That will be all right. Not too early, though.” “Ten o'clock?” “Then or a few minutes later. Tll be expecting you, Mr. King. If you see Lee before midnight, tell him I do wish he'd telephone me.” Martin wrote a note for Dexter, left it at the desk in the lobby and took the subway to the Vil- lage. (Te be continued) NEW YORK (#—Would you like! Being afflicted with a weak, los- to develop a forceful winning per- ing personality is a terrible handi- \sonality? ” cap in this world, a world in which A lot of people would. But there Self-assertion wins respect, wheth- jare some who would be glad to er the cause in which it is put settle for a forceful, losing per- forward is worthy or despicable. sonality. Win or lose, they would You are the prisoner of people like to have any kind of personality with greater will power because that had some impact. Count me among them. Some people are born with the power of decision, The rest of us acquire it. We acquire it from others. We are jalways ready to meet any emer- gency—if there is someone around to make up our minds what to do. We are the guys who can't say no. We would rather have our teeth knocked out than return a negative answer. In fact this happened to jme several times in grammar school. The class bully would ask ‘me: | “Do you want to fight?” you can’t, for some strange reason, offend them. Clothing salesmen, bus drivers, waiters, and doormen ‘are brushed aside by the strong- willed. But they dominate me completely. And how they can tell ‘at a glance that I am like a door with a sign saying “Push” is be- nd me. Panhandlers can tell this interior indecision at once. They never ask me for a dime. They start by demanding a dollar, and I feel like a bum because I negotiate them down to a quarter. The same way |with stray dogs. They follow me home on rainy nights for a hand- Science Plans New Attack On Housefly | By RENNIE TAYLOR jone or more of which may —: | Associated Press Science Reporter tute an invitation for some er | LOS ANGELES W—A new sci- Scientist to utilize some simple jentific attack on the housefly,SUbstance as a lethal weapon jaimed to hit him in the intestines, |*rnet eee a ecaugnituas bs hereon Buca ive been brought. about by the | First steps in the offensive are realization that DDT and other’ new (®—The Communist to find out how the fly converts Compounds are not going to ex- party newspaper Pravda today Pravda Reprints Speech Comments MOWCOW Well, I would look at his doubled- out, and they would stay there the up fists, and think, “I can’t tell rest of their lives except our land- |this fellow no, no matter what he Jord has a forceful, winning per- jasks me. On the other hand, if I sonality that overawes dogs—and jsay yen... |me, too. And while I stood there, trying) My wife has often commented to make up my mind what to do, on my jellyfish character. \bang!—out went another of my ‘You know, there is a kind of front teeth. strength in weakness,” she said Later in life this same inability once. “I notice you sometimes get to say no has got me into trouble your way just by waiting.” with ladies. That is the secret satisfaction of “My, did you ever in your life all of us weak-willed folk. When see anybody who looks older than the people with forceful, winning his food into energy and cell-build- ing material. When the facts about ‘housefly digestion are determined, |insect fighters will know more pre- jcisely about where and how to do terminate the housefly. Flies have published derogatory foreign press become increasingly resistant to comment on President Eisen- these chemicals, thower’s atomic speech before the In another report to the society, United Nations. Pravda itself still 1 do today?” a lady asked me just personalities get tired of pushing the other. day. And she almost bit us around and sit down to rest, me when I told her, “oh, sure—'well—then we flow around them Dr. George C. Deeker of the Illi- had no definite comment. severa’.”” That's the trouble with people \like water toward our own goals. | The only way to get what you nois Natural History Survey said| Tye comments from abroad la- | ; the hitting. the battle against insects is far | One of the new things is that houseflies have pepsin in their systems. Pepsin is an enzyme which helps meat-eating animals to digest protein. Dr. Bernard Greenberg of the University of Kansas reported the Pepsin discovery. Up to now it jhas been taken for granted, Dr. Greenberg said, that insects do not jbave pepsin. The new finding means that jthere is less difference between flies and the higher animals than previously realized. It means also that the housefly may be vulner- able to new and different forms of chemical attack. Another similar finding was re- jported by Dr. W. Chefurka, of the station at London, Ontario. Dr. Chefurka said he had determined number of such cases in the crim-for Providence in the American home. the steps by which houseflies break |down carbohvdrates. This involves a whole series of che ie from won. Despite the new chemicals, Dr. Decker asserted, the total weight \of insects produced each year ex- jceeds the weight of all other ani- imal life produced in the same | Dr. Decker said insects did more to reduce the yield of corn in cen- \tral and southern Illinois this year than did drouth. The dying of lawns and pastures sometimes has been attributed to drouth when the {real cause was insect damage, he asserted. |INQUIRY IS ASKED *NDON W—The Church of England has asked the government jCanadian government experiment for an official inquiry into homo-} sexuality because of the increasing inal courts. D THE CITIZEN DANY i beled the speech propaganda and demanded that the United States agree to the Soviet plan of atomic control which calls for nations to outlaw atomic warfare first, and then sei up controls. Pravda yesterday published an 800-word summary of Eisenhower's speech which proposed that atomic powers pool fissionable materials and know-how under the aegis of the United Nations for pzaceful development. The newspaper devoted much space today to the Big Three Ber- {muda conference. It said the con- lference proved a flop which “‘only lexposed the deep differences x- isting between the United States, Britain and Franc.” Jean Marois, substitute goalie ‘Hockey League, is one of the heirs toa* ng shoe business in Qus- pe A who have strong winning personal- want in this world if you can’t say ities. Whether you agree or dis-'no is to weer out those of impa- agree with them, they end up by|tient strength with your own end- getting mad at you. less power of indecision. Whisky Is Risky Oklahoma City 4 — Whisky is just too risky, the Tristate Insur- of liquor to Policemen. q ance Co. contended here be-| “We appreciate the ype { istri between a friend sending our a weer tice wae Hunt. eaes i git ta letid a eo spirit and our officers going into to set aside a ruling instructing y bar and asking where Santa the firm to sell insurance to David Claus is,” Leonard said. L. Veatch, aamitted bootlegger. |_. 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