The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-15
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Points to the Northwest
Sun Valley Is the only resort !
ever visited that really looks like
you expected it would. It's a movie
set In real life, from the spacious.
expensive Lodge, to the quaint Ty-
ro1ese village with its wide-eaved
roofs and its statues Of sculptured
Ice. The surrounding mountains,
eaked in hundreds of feet of snow,
resemble the Alps. The thermom-
eter hovers around 10 degrees above
by day, drops 20 degrees at night:
and the air is crisp and exhilarat-
Ing.
There Is a ski-shop run by Swiss
refugee, who works Indian patterns
into notwithstanding probabilities.
There IS a night club called ''The
RAM" which looks like a Tyrolese
drinking place. There are Austrian
ski instructors. Bavarian skaters,
Prussian walters, Czechoslovakian
hangers-on!
Noted several well-known persons
including young Studebaker-in
wheel-chairs being pushed about by
nurses. These invalids are the
guests who've cracked UP coming
down! One of the importations from
Europe pioneered in Sun Valley is
the chair type of ski-lift. It is known
an the Chairway to the Stars, and
10 q little over two miles long. 1t
ascends a vertical height Of $500
feet on %, 200-foot Badly. mountain.
Thisllift .(l60 ehairs} cost quarter
million dollars to build. fla
Gessp,g- g. - ssg Ass g,f,
on at noon for Twin Falls, Idaho.
Dfned en- route at Japanese lunch
counter in Shoshone, 80 miles south.
The waitress was a dainty little Jap,
not quite Ave feet tall, called Susie
Nakata. She had been born "a sum-
merS previously on nearby ranch.
and had lived all this time In and
around Shoshone, town of not over
$500 inhabitants. Susie had never
been to Sun Valley, or Twin Falls;
once TO Salt Lake Cityl
Left next noon and drove 200 miles
to Idaho Fsalls, to address the Knife
and Fork club there. Was followed
by Maj. George Fielding Eliot. Aft
erwards on to Publisher j. F. Nc
Dermott's delightfully."- comfortable
house. and his charming guests.
Caught midnight day-coach for
Pocatello. Chatted en- route with
brilliant J. A. Nelson, travelling
freight adjustment agent of a rail-
road In the West. Changed trains
In Idaho's metropolis, where Idaho
potatoes are now selling at 40 cents
o hundred pounds. to the Portland
Rose Ten hours sleep in a Pull
man. on next afternoon at PEN
dleson. Ore, the city made famous
by the roundups. My car met me
here and we left Immediately. Three
hours later pulled into Lewiston. for
the night. Earlier in the afternoon
the hotel basement had been afire.
Interested in press report that Idaho
tops u. S. in healthiest recruits at
army camps. Only 80 per cent Of
its draftees have been rejected!
Then on to Moscow, and the Idaho
State university. Twenty-four per
cent of the students here are wom-
en- Men study chiefly forestry.
mines. law. Learned Moscow is not
named for the Russian city, but is
an Indian derivative, such as Bosco,
Wasco. Tako, etc.
Received the following letter from
Bill Parker. written in Cannes,
Alpes-Maritimes. Occupied France:
Having been a Reuters corre-
spondent in the Sino-Japanese war
and civilian observer in this war
Of Europe, I don't think much Of
wars or the people who conduct
them came over here at the
outbreak, on the first American
freighter to go through the British.
acontraband control. and with the de-
termination of enlisting In an Ameri-
can volunteer regiment, believin :
that ii represented q Great Cause
The American regiment did not ma
terialize. and was a volunteer with
an American ambulance unit. I'm
Questionably I saw more Of the war
than many other American writer's.
And ] debunk war as much as you
dehunked American society in your
Farewell to Fifth Avenue was
brought before a summary court
martial as a German spy-suspect ir
q French village where NOBODY
spoke English. and was saved b.
German shells falling on the roo.
Of the peasants house where was
being tried. I was the only Amer.
can eyewitness OF an actual big bat
tie between the French and the Ger
mans. as far as / can determine.
I was trapped by the Germans in
another little village and was among
them for six weeks. A great many
humorous as wen as tragic things
happened was In the exodus from
Paris. which I still think vas the
Siliext and most inexeusable eight
in all history.
SEEING THINGS: In wana Wal
Il. wash. passed q "Pantorlus1''
Which presses. cleans. spouxcs
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