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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-11
FOnECAS1
THEY ARE AFRAID
AN EGG WILL DROP
(By Associated Press,

TULSA, Okla, Dec. 11.-Oscar
Payne, Red Cross instructor, is a
realist.
He staged mock raid on a civil
air patrol unit taking an evening
lesson.
The room was dimnied out as
the raid was reported and Payne
laid on the dram heavily as the
planes came closer and closer,
AS the first bombs were sup
posed to strike, the lights went
out, there was an explosion and a
terrific series of crashes.
Payne had slipped a horse-pis-
tol from brief case and had
fired it in the small room at the
same moment that he kicked a
large garbage-can lid and sent it
bouncing across the floor. -
1T took some time, for the
screams and pandenroniura- to die
down and even as long as ten
minutes later several people were
so nervous they had trouble light
ing cigarettes" reporter Payne.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-11
!. THE REASON OF A ROWING Itch

ries there are to be written, not
only in China, but in ali the cor
ners of the world where there are
wars and fighting men.
l told him about Frank Riggs,
known more intimately to his
friends as Dude. Dude came
out of Ohio State University and
he too went to China to " tteaach
young pilots How to Kill and to
fly. Perhaps you Remembered pic
ture of him in. Life Magazine not
so long ago, with two big forty
fives strapped TO his middle, grin
ming at, Clare. Booth Luce's cam
era. Dude" too, is a friend of
mine. One day he got note from
one of his pupils who, in admira-
ton was sending him a concrete
manifestation of his regards and
affection. He was SenGinG Dude"
a little gift, he said. When the
gift" got there it turned out to De
an 18-ycar-old Concubine. Flab-
bergcstad, DUE" sent the little
newcomer scampering back to ne
mama and then sat down and
wrote nc all about it. That letter
was printed in this column, and
when l printed it | wondered why
I wasn't out thCle Writing stories
myself instead of sitting here
publishing what othcr people
wrote.
I told him about Bill McGaffih
and Preston Grover, though
that was presumptious because
he knew all about Bill McGaffin
and Preston Grover. They are his
boys. Preston Grover used to
write a column out of Washing
ton, and Bill McGaffin used to sit
at a desk just a few feet from
mine here in this office. One day
last February McGaffin turned up
on a British destroyer east bound
from Gibraltar. Suddenly that de-
stroyer was racing to the rescue
of British convoy that had been
attacked between Malta and Alex
andria. McGaffin didn't know it,
but Preston Grover was on one OF
the merchantmen in that convoy.
The Luftwaffe came and the
Luftwaffe saw and though it
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-11
LEGALS
THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC
rnNnAEV

THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC
COMPANY
TO HOLDERS OF FIRST MORT
GAGE FIVE PER CENT FIFTY
YEAR GOLD bonds OF THE
KEY WEST ELECTRIC COM
PANY.
Under the Sinking Fund Provi-
sion Of the Mortgage or Deed OF
Trust. dated August /, 1906, between
the above Company and State Street
Trust Company, of Bostofl,s the un-
dersigned Trustee hereby gives
notice that until december IS, 1942,
at twelve o'clock noon. 1t will re-
ceive sealed prOposals for the sale
of the above named bonds at a price
not to exceed los per eentnnf of the
principal plus interest accrued to
December &c, 1919, to- absorb, the
sum of Five Thousand, Three Hun
dred and Forty Two Dollars and
Seventy Two Cents. (s5.342,72) or
any part thereof Interest on bonds
purchased will cease en- December
&c, 1912 The right Is reserved to
accept or reject any and all pro-
hbusals either in wfspIe or In part
1SgATB. ,STREET TRUST COMPANY
-. RS: S. II, oWolcott. Vice President
I 6s1an, Maya ehuseffs, December 1
sn9fgfS TIHCNOd 2-4-gl4Lfs4S
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didn't conquer there was a run
ming fight, with some ships hit
and others lost, until, eventually,
the convoy got through, and then
McGaffin ano Grover went ashore
TO write their stories. Not until
those stories were being written
did either know the other was
there. Ii was one of the interest
ing journalistic events Of the war,
and their eyewitness accounts
were printed side by side in news
papers all over the United States.
l told him all this, and tried
TO make him understand that for
me, at least, the war now had be-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-11
SEAMEN'S SERVICE
: OPENS NEW CLUB
tny Associated Pressl

GLASGOW, Dec. IL. - The
United Seamen's Service, an or
ganization that does for American
merchant seamen what the Red
Cross does for men of the Army
and Navy, has set up here the first
of the clubs it will establish in
foreign ports.
It's headquarters here has ac-
commodations for $50 men. There
are beds, recreation rooms and
other comforts for men who can
get night off from their ships.
Clubs similar to the one here
the headquarters for the United
Kingdom-are to be opened in
other ports of the world.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-11
BY GEORGE TUCKER
4 AP Features Writer

Az Features Writer
NEW YORK, Dec. 1I.-More
and more during the last two or
three years l have found myself
hunched over cable desks reading
the dispatches from Cairo, Mos
cow and New Delhi, or sneaking
off to, neWSreel theaters to catch
the newest shots of attacks on AL
lied conveys, when l might better
and more honestly have served
this column by sticking my nose
into backstage theater doors or
inquiring into the domestic pur-
suits of Miss Gypsy Rose Lee.
One day when things weren't
going any too well at Sevastopol
and when, as usual, I was hanging
around the cable desk, one of the
editors jibed, Tucker, if you
spent more time on Shubert Alley
and less time over those teletype-
writers you'd write a better col
ufnn."
I didn't argue with him. There
wasn't much to say. l knew l
was restless, that I wanted to go
abroad as newspaperman, and
that if I couldn't do that I'd take
End best and go into the army on
my own. After all, l had had four
years of military experience. l
knew what dragging through the
dust and the bitches and the mud
was like. Long ago on the proving
grounds of MeCleHand l. qualified
for comfnission9ItW wasn't just a
hunch, orersometl9ing that nhad
come to me through rose-gloW
impulse. .2tGEp oh .aol 3hi {
So 1 went back to my desk. and
wrote out request for service
abroad, stating my reasons and
the way l felt as frankly as /
knew how.
He said, "Sit down."
He said, you've made applica-
ton for foreign service
He said, "Why?"
That's a funny question, Why.
If you answer honestly you might
be misunderstood. You might give
the impression that you think
your talents are too high for
Broadway. You might make peo-
pie think you're posing as a hero.
Nevertheless, ! tried. told him
about big, stocky kid out of
Birmingham, Alabama. whose
name is Bill Macdonald. Bill was
an early bird. Long before the
Germans went into Poland he dis
appeared into those lost, hidden
valleys of China and taught young
Chinese pilots how to kill Japs
and fly planes. Bill Macdonald is
a friend of mine, and today he is
Chang Kai-shek's personal pilot.
1t was he who helped build the
Flying Tigers When he gets back
to New York on those rare and
infrequent vacations we sit in no.
tel rooms and talk and keep
thinking of all the wonderful sto-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-11
GEORGE TUCKER
SAYS FAREWELL:
OFF To CAIRO
GOING AS REPORTER AND
WAR CORRESPONDENT TO
COVER EVENTS AND HAP.
ryEy1ssss;s:s tofs Wang ,sI5
BY cEoRGE TUCKER
.AP Feature. Service Writer

1 ~
NEW YORK. Dec 11.-Fm not
sure know howgto begin this.
This is one of THE last columns
I'm going to write For the du-
ration anyway. When you see
this III be on my way to Cairo.
I'm going over to take a part in
the war. Not as 4 soldier, but
as reporter as a war CORE
spondent.
I'm going because it's what
I'd rather do than anything in
this woodland because I'm
lucky. You've got to be lucky
to get in on the biggest news
story that has come along since
the Story Of CHation. There
isn't a newspaperman in the
country who wouldn't ,ehop off
his toes for the chance I know
j would. And I'm very, verN
happy.
When I was kid,oinll Lake
Charles, La, reading 1.ssTheq Dare
Boys on the Brandywine'r and
Surrey of Eagles Nest" I used
to wish l had been born a long
time ago so that 1 could have
ridden with Lighthouse Harry
Lee or been with Pickett at
Gettysburg.
But | was wrong. If I'd been
born then I'd never have known
about Krakow and Corfu and
Bataan and Rangoon and the
Solomon Islands. I'd never have
had a chance to span an ocean
on wings, and follow an army
through the western desert, or 60
into India and Turkey and Iraq,
or ride into Jerusalem on a
jackass. But I was lucky. By
an accident of time some or all
these things are mine now.
I've been writing about New
York for ten years. That's long
time. During that time more
than six thousand of you have
written me letters. Those letters
came from little cow towns and
big steel towns and from cities
and ham1ets and little hideaway
villages between here and
Shanghai and Honolulu and
Juneau and wherever this column
has appeared.
Answering those letters and
writing about the things I have
seen on Broadway and along
the waterfront and at Harlem
chicken heavens operated by
Father Divine has been one
whale of an experience.
I was in on the Lindbergh kid
mapping story, and to the best of
my knowledge I was the first
newspaperman in New York who
got his hands on the name of
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, that
stoical ex-machine-gunner of the
Kaiser's army who was convict
ed of killing the Lindbergh baby
and sent to the chair.
I saw Prohibition die, and with
it that curious, bitter blossom OF
the prohibition years-the speak
easy. A few of those speakeasies
successfully negotiated the tran
sition to legality and today they
are among our better known
restaurants and nightclubs, But
the great majority of them died
as they lived, q, behiindd closed
doors and drawn .rt,i snu}1 df a1s
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-11
AMONG CHILDREN

NEW YORK-Rheumatic fever
causes more deaths in, children
between the ages of 10 to IA than
any other disease.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-11
MUCH COPPER

ST.sLOUIS-The typical house
hold bronze door hinge contains
enough copper for 4,l87 rounds of
so calibe cartridges.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-11

come uppermoSt, and would be
untn il was over.
He said, An hight"
He said, Why haven't you
come to me before"
He said, You're going TO Cal
70"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-11

WASHINGTON-A dozen sum
naits Of the Owen Stanley Range
in New Guinea are more than TO-
900 feet high.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-11
MANY INSURGENTS

WASHINGTON. About 800
engine, navigation and communi-
cations instruments are needed to
opeate big bombing plane. ,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-11

Allied fliers now rule skies IN
South and Southwest Pacific
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-11

--.-Gnadalcanal forces outnumbel
feessM Marine Corps chief says.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-11

TomcxTow's Tldes
Naval Base)
High Tide Low Tide
1:20 am. 8:04 am.
2:36 pm. TAI pm.
FORECAST
Key West and Vicinity: Con-
tinued mild temperature; pos
Sibly showers this afternoon and
tonight. x. ..e...-
Florida > Mia temperature, in,
sEWtjfnt ligRt ha}R or drizzle
IN north portion, possibly show
'45on and tonight. h''ll'.~
: HHatteras, N. C., to Apalachi-
eeSia, Fla No small craft or
STORM warnings have been issued.
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WEATHER REPORT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Observation taken at $50 a. m.
E.W.T. (City Office
Temperatures
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Relative humidity
$40
Tosiiorfow's Almanac
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-26
Health Department
Reports

Great advances in the Public
Health Nursing Service of Mont
gomery County is cited as the out
standing accomplishment of 1941,
according to DR.. v. L. Ellicott, in
the Health Departments Annual
Report to be released in a few
days. This was made possible by
the addition of nurses through
the cooperation of the County Com
missioners, the Public Health Lay
Council and through the contribu-
ton of one-fifth of the cost by the
County tuberculosis Association.
Additional nurses were appointed
later in 1941 and they were able to
put in enough time to increase the
Health Departments home visits
for the year 1941 by 800 over
1910.
In the field of communicable
diseases there were 10 cases of in
fantile paralysis with one death.
Most cases made a complete recov-
cry. Because of the high diphtheria
rate the Health Department made
special effort to immunize all
preschool children. The highest
incidence Of diphtheria moved from
Rockville to Gaithersburg. The
decrease could be accounted for by
the work of the Rockville Lay
Health Committee for cutting the
high rate in Rockville. Measles and
German measles were highly pre-
valent but no deaths were record
ed. The v eneral disease clinics
showed a 248o increase in registra-
ton and strict enforcement of the
attendance of infectious patients
was carried out. The attendance at
the Maternity Child Welfare
Clinics unfortunately was poor and
DR.. Ellicott attributes this to the
fact that the clinic service is un-
able at the present time to make
satisfactory plans for the mothers
deliveries. If low cost planned
delivery service were available,
the maternal benefits would be
much higher in the county.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-26
Sugar Rationing
Dates Announced
For Consumers
Continued from Page u

Continued from Page u
receive their ration books immed-
lately. One member of a family
will be permitted to register for
the entire family, reporting at the
same time how much sugar the
family has on hand. Stamps will
be taken from the book at the time
of registration to cover such sup
plies in excess of two pounds per
person.
The War Production Board has
not determined just how much
sugar will be rationed to each con-
sumner but OPA officials believe the
individual allotment will be either
II or u of pound week.
The OPA pointed out that a
number of administrative details
remain to be worked out, including
the question of special allotments
Of sugar to home foodcanners.
Mr.. Burr noted that the ration
registration is more involved than
all other previous registrations. 1t
is a bigger job than either the
selective service or the census
enumeration. More people will be
covered than in the draft registra-
ton and more data will be compiled
on each individual than in the
census.
1t was estimated that the regis
tration in Baltimore City alone will
require between six to seven thous-
and registrars and it is likely that
volunteers may be called if there is
not sufficient number of teachers.
An equal number Of registrars will
be needed throughout the State.
A rough calculation indicates
that 1 registrar can register ap-
proximately 100 persons in the des-
ignated 16 hours hours on each
Of the A days.
Considering the Importance of
this rationing to the government in
the defense program, Mr.. Burr
urged that every Marylander give
his fullest cooperation by register
ing promptly and not waiting until
the last day.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-26
Richard Montgomery Students
Select Popularity Winners

Mara Maud Davis and Guy Bak-
er, Seniors at Richard Montgomery
High School, Rockville, have been
named the most popular girl and
boy students of the year. Although
conducted on a non-partisan basis
there was keen rivalry among
aspirants for the twenty-one diff
ferent "bests". Runners up in the
popularity contest were Vivian
Lowe and Hansen Watkins.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-26
PALM SUNDAY
SERVICES

The Rev. Raymond Philip Black,
Pastor
Christ Church, Rockville
Palm Sunday, March 20
500 A. M, Holy Communion.
HOO A. M, Morning Prayer and
Address. Blessed Palms will be dis
tributed at both services.
Monday, March 80
Holy Communion, $50 A. M,
and 1920 A. M.
Tuesday, March 81
Holy Communion, 700 A. M. and
1920 A. M.
Wednesday, April /
Holy Communion 7:30 A. M. and
1920 A. M.
determination and Prepare
ton for Easter Communion, 8 P.
M.
Maundy Thursday, April 2
Holy Communion, 500 A. M. and
1920 A. M.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-26

According to the Glide" RMHS
student publication, winners and
runners up in the various CLASH
fications were: one who has done
most for the school; girl, Bobbie
Burdette; runner up, Helen Wal
ZACH; boy, Hansen Watkins; most
personality: girl, Mary Lee Mon
day, runner up Bobby Burdette;
boy. Lawrence Cecil, runner up,
William Virts; most sophisticated:
girl, Edith Galloway; runner up,
Joyce Davis; boy, John Bell; run
her up, Alvin Veirs; wittiest girl,
Ada Berghers, runner up, Pat
Howes; boy, Lawrence Cecil, run
ner up, Peter Hope; best girl
scholar, Bobby Burdette; runner
up, Dorothy Cruickshank; boy,
John Bell, runner up, Robert
Browning; person with curliest
halr, BMl shepherd, runner up, Dan
Hooker; best dressed girl, Mara
Maud Davis, runner up, Louise
Bell; boy, Alvin Veirs, runner up,
John Bell; Most talkative girl,
Betty Ann Clark, runner up, Esther
Schwab; boy, Bradley Clark, run
ner up, Billy See; girl most likely
to succeed, Bobby Burdette, rum
ner up, Dorothy Cruickshank; boy,
Hansen Watkins, runner up, Robert
Carter; best girl dancer, June Ray,
runner up, Louise Bell; boy, Robert
Browning, runner up, Guy Baker.
Benjamin Stoddert was our first
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-26

Good Friday, April 8
Morning Prayer and Pro-Ana
phora, 1880 A. M.
Preaching of the Passion, 1900
to 800 P. M.
Saturday Easter Even
Baptisms, 400 P. M.
Easter Day
Holy Communion, 500 A. M.
Festival Eucharist. HOO A. M.
On July IL, 1913, Congress passed
an act establishing Marine Corps.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-26

An American firm which had
shipment of unpaid goods in the
Marine Post Exchange when Guam
fell refused all payments.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-26

"Oil King is the petty officer
aboard Naval vessel in charge
of fuel oil storage.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-26

The Navy needs 1000 college
seniors and 1000 juniors as future
officers.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-26

Navy men will have butter on
their bread this year-15, 900, 900
lbs. of it according to the latest
order.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-03-26

Benjamin Stoddert was our first
Secretary of the Navy.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
The Monitor-Leader
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7, 1912 PAGE 8
FEEDER Warns Cleueland's Grid
Fans TO Beware of Packers

For on the basis of cold fig
ures so far through the cam
paign, it appears these two clubs
have about as much idea of de-
tense as a couple Of Tony Galen-
to's.
The Cleveland Green Bay fuss
may not headline the Leagues
full weekly card, but it should
uncork a good portion of the fire
crackers, especially if the Pack
ers' SIS points in their game last
week is any indication.
AS for the championship" as
poets of the program, the chief
feature appears to be whether
Jimmy Conzelman's Chicago
Cardinals, can interrupt the
Washington Redskins rhumba
toward the Eastern division IT,
tie.
The unbeaten Chicago Bears
who have been running wild
over the western half up to now,
shouldn't have any too much
trouble in Brooklyn against the
Dodgers, and the rest of the
schedule - which finds Pitts
burgh at Detroit and New York
at Philadelphia is about q
dime-a-dozen on the open mar
ket.
But, when the Packers and
the Rams turn loose, anything is
likely to happen. Except for De-
troit and Philadelphia-who are
so far behind in their respective
sections that they look like they
are travelling in a second section
of the train-these two teams
show the worst defensive rec
ords in the League. Each has
had 1913 points scored against it,
more than any other outfit ex-
cept for Detroit and Philly. The
Rams have been hit for 1883
yards in eight games.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
BY SID FEEDER

NEW YORK, Nov. 7 - R-
This is just friendly tip to the
good citizens of Cleveland to
head for the hills, men," when
the Green Bay Packers parade
against the Cleveland Rams on
tomorrow's National Profession
al football League program.
This is not to suggest that the
boys will try any rough stuff on
the cash customers during the
proceedings, but the respective
defensive records of the ponder
Gus Packers and the rambunc-
tious Rams indicate that the airs
going to be full of footballs and
the Gladiators are going to be
doing more point-making than
point-stopping when these two
outfits say "howdy."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
Frank Crosefti
Promised Rest

CHICAGO, Nov. Z - R -
frankie Crosetti can sit out 30
days of the 1913 baseball season
and get away with it. But it
wasn't the New York Yankee in
fielder's idea. Commissioner K.
NJ. Lands yesterday suspended
him for that period starting next
season because he pushed Um-
pire William Summers in the
third game of the 1912 World
Series.
Lands also fined Crosetti
$3.50. Terminate Joe Gordon
was assessed q similar fine "for
language addressed to Umpire
George Magerkurth" in the
same game.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
Mouniaineers
Meet Pontiac

st. Mary's Mountaineers
journey to Pontiac this Sunday
to engage st. Frederick's in an
other game in the Second Dr.
vision of the Detroit Catholic
League.
The reshuffled Mountaineer
squad that started clicking in
fine form last Sunday when 1t
held the second-place st. Rita's
aggregation to a 90 tie, is ex-
pected to give the tough Pontiac
squad a lively afternoon.
Two weeks ago Coach Lee
Hart switched his squad around
drastically, and the team started
to click.
The lineup for tomorrow's
game will probably be the same
as last week, with Francis D.
LUCE and Wiess at the ends,
Harms and LaMontie at the tao
kles, Petitpren and Zischerk at
the guard posts, and Trombley
at center. Don Martus at full
back, Tommy O'Brien at quar-
terback, and Ken Vernier and
Lawrence D'Luge at the half
back slots will be the backfield
that will attempt to ram over q
victory Sunday. Harold Anger
meyer, former fullback who
suffered a broken collarbone in
practise, is coming along In
good shape and may be back in
action before the end of the sea-
SON.