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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-11-25
AN ARMY WIFE
from Miami.

VI Tie dDOVe literary gem, we Ee-
ceived another letter-evidence
again that water seeks its level
and sthatA the seeker found what
she. sought. For. her, the birds
will sing and the flowers bloom
along her path wherever it may
lead and the land she lives in
be the better for her presence.
After all, what one looks fol
DOES make a difference.
Here's the other letter;
Key West, Florida,
November IL, 1912.
MIR. Stephen c. Singleton,
Secretary,
Chamber of Commerce,
Key West, Fla.
Dear Mr.. Singleton:
This letter is by no means in,
tended as a criticism agains
those appearing in the Miam
Herald and Citizen, except t.
say | am sorry the writer's hac
such unfortunate experiences il
Key West and / can't help bu+
believe it was either brought or
by their own behavior or they
were just unfortunate in no
finding an apartment or house
to suit them.
1t is unfortunate that the
housing situation is as it is bu
il. one will stop to consider tina
only about three years ago Key
West never dreamed it woulc
need such tremendous housine
facilities and if the newcomer.
will just do as we have done, &C
cept what we find and make
the best of it until Key IVES
can do better, even if we do no
find all the modern facilities VIZ
have aat home and create thi.
feeling within. ! am sure they
will like. this Little Southernmost
City in the United States.
We have nothing but praise
for Key West. We have beer
here since February and while
we have lived on both Eas
and West Coasts and in the Mid
die West and abroad, this is thu
most democratic little city of al
and is the only seaport town
was, ever in where enlisted per
sonnet are treated with equality
and respect, where they are.wel.
come and accorded hospitality
in the homes, of the REAL KEY
WESTERS.
The climate is most healthy
and the beauty of the clouds anc
moon in Key West is the lovlies
scenery / have ever seen and i
will be with regret when the
time comes for us to leave
should we, have to.
May / take this opportunity
TO thank the unknown people Of
Key West who, when / frs
came here, in passing on the
street, said, GOOD MORNING"
! am sure it was Just that little
Evening star., 1942-06-06
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

Rubber and gasoline, next to
the war itself, have the admin
istration. Congress and the peo-
pie themselves by the ears. The
problems they present are differ
ent but interrelated. The coun-
try has plenty of oil and gas,
produced right here. 1t has a
limited supply of rubber, and at
present produces practically
none. The countries which have
furnished this country with the
great bulk of its natural rubber
are in the hands of the Axis
powers. The gasoline and oil
problem, so far as the Eastern
States are concerned, is one of
transportation. For the rest of
the country there seems to be no
limit on the stocks of oil and
gas.
Gas has been rationed in the
East to automobile users since
May Is. 1t is now proposed to
ration gas on Nationwide scale
beginning in July. The reason
advanced for this is the need of
saving rubber-meaning rubber
tires. Automobiles will be driven
less if the operators cannot get
all the fuel they want.
There has arisen great resent
Evening star., 1942-06-06
This Changing World
japanese Declared Pounding at Midway
As Prelude to Attempt to Seize Hawaii

Toxic naval staff has conducted
the war at sea with what may be
described as daring caution" 1t
has felt its way carefully and
has hit with energy and power
whenever and wherever 1t was
sure the opposing forces could
be overwhelmed.
Any attempt to invade the West
Coast at this time appears out
of the question. The principal
objective. according to Washing
ton authorities, must be Hawaii.
Without the possession Of that
base it is inconceivable that the
Japs will attempt any large
scale operations against the con-
tinental United States. But be-
fore the powerful Hawaiian de-
fenses can be tackled, it is essen
tial that the Japs possess Midway
as a stepping stone for their
principal attack. For this reason
we must retain the small base
west of Hawaii in our own hands.
Nazis Predict U. S. Reaction.
In diplomatic quarters 1t is be-
lieved the Midway attack, which
must have been decided on soon
after the Coral Sea battle, is con-
nected with the possibility of
second front in Europe. 1t is not
Of first importance to the Ger
mans how many men We send to
England for that purpose, but it
is essential, from the Nazi point
of view. that many American
men-of-war be tied TO home
shores.
Without adequate naval pro-
lection, in addition to adequate
shipping tonnage, any invasion
which the United Nations plan in
Evening star., 1942-06-06
Will Goering Follow Hess?
Observers Soy ReiehsmarshoI Often Spots
With Hitler and Moy Desert Burning Ship

discussion or even mention Of the
Hess case must cease Immediately.
More than that, hospitals and
streets named after Hitler's deputy
we're rechristened. The Office OF
deputy fuehrer was abolised alto
gether; the party chancellory, of
which Hess had been the head, was
added to the Reich's chancellory as
merely another department. Hess,
like Roehn, was blotted out.
Hermann Goering, alone OF Hit
ler's three main props, remains. So
does Goebels, but Hitler has never
trusted him as completely as he
did the other three; he uses him
because he is "gescheit" (clever,
brainy). So does Heinrich Hmm
ler, the sinister head Of the Gestapo
and, in fact, of the entire German
police, but Hitler probably fears
him more than he trusts him.
1t Is we'll known that Goering
from. time to time is in the dog
house, so far as his master is con-
cerned. The two men every now
and then have a spat. Now 1t is
the luxury with which Goering
loves to surround himself which irks
his master. Hitler doesn't mind his
boys enriching themselves and 60
ing in for high living, only they
mustn't put it on too thick.
Rates Fat Of the Land
Goering makes no secret Of the
fact that he thinks the second man
In the Reich-meaning himself-is
entitled to live off the fat Of the
land.
The storm blows over and Hitler
and Goering are ostentatiously
shown shaking hands and frater-
nizing in the weekly news reels.
They have had repeated spats
over conduct Of the war. So oc-
casionally Goering quits the front
and for weeks turns up at his
sumptuous estate in the Schorf
meadow, some so miles from Ber-
lin. He is plainly sulking. There
are even rumors in such times that
he has been given "stubenarrest," !"
literally meaning confinement to
his room. but more literally signi-
fying that he must not leave his
! estate.
Looking sharply at the newsreel
pictures, one can detect that there
isn't much cordiality In the hand
shake between Hitler and his
Reichsmarshal. But soon there
after there chances to be a Reich
stag meeting in the course of which
Goering, as the only speaker be-
sides the fuehrer, slobbers all over
with assertions Of loyalty to his
master. And he lays it on so thick
about the supernatural powers OF
Hitler that one may well wonder
whether it's just satire.
General opinion among those who
have watched Goering all these
years is that he is by no means
welded to the Nazi faith in the
bigoted sort of way that Goebbels
processes to be, and that Hess truly
was-until his detection.
1t is also known that relations
Evening star., 1942-06-06

dist Church, Sixteenth and P streets
NV, 6:15 pm. today.
Dance, refreshments. YWCA, Sew
enteenth and K streets NV, 7:30
pm. today.
Dancing. games, servicemen's
Club No. /, BOG Ninth street NV,
pm today
Dance, National Catholic Com
munity Service Club, 9l8 Tenth
street NV, 8 pm. today.
Dancing, games, refreshments, st.
Johns Episcopal Church, Sixteenth
and H streets NV, 8 pm. today.
Community sing, on-Sectarian
Tabernacle,' Youth Center, 6440
Piney Branch road NV, 8 pm. to-
day.
Bowling, sponsored by the Foun-
dry Methodist and Mount Vernon
Place Methodist Churches, Lucky
Strike Bowling Alleys, Fourteenth
and R streets NV, 8 pm. today.
Dance, Jewish Community Center,
Sixteenth and @ streets NV, $3.50
pm. today.
Dancing, games, Y. NJ c. A., 1876
G street NV, 9 pm. today.
Open house, U. S. o. Club operated
by the Salvation Army, COG E street
NV, all day today.
Servicemen are invited to Wash
ington churches. For location of
churches and times of services, call
the federation Office, Decatur 3132.
Games, swimming, Jewish Com
munity Center, $50 am. tomorrow.
Light breakfast, non-sectarian re-
ligious discussion, sponsored by the
Java Club, Y. w. C. A., $50 am. to-
morrow.
Sightseeing tour of Washington,
sponsored by the auxiliary group,
Red Gross Motor Corps, meet at the
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Club,
1015 L street NV, 10 am. tomor-
row.
Coffee hour, following church
service, st. Johns Episcopal Church,
12:15 pm. tomorrow.
FOR COLORED SERVICE MEN.
Open house, games. swimming,
Y. M. c. A., 1916 Twelfth street
NV, from 4 pm. today.
Evening star., 1942-06-06
BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER.
Uida UorlH

WlQe WOrId.
NEW YORK, June 6.-Will Her
mann Goering, like Rudolf Hess,
some day abandon the Hitler burn
ing ship?
Will he even, perchance. con-
spire against his master as Ernst
Roehm did?
Or will he go down with his mas
ter?
This subject is much discussed In
whispers among men and women In
Germany who still do a little think
ing of their own.
When Hitler seized power in 1888,
there were three men on whom he
relied more implicitly for loyalty
than anybody else. They were
Roehm, head OF the brown -shirted
SA troops, the only Nazi to whom
Hitler addressed the popular "du'
of the second person singular in the
German language; Hess, his trusted
personal secretary and later deputy
fuehrer; and Goering, his political
right hand man who is fond OF
calling himself "Hitler's most faith
full paladin."
Roehm was executed during the
purge OF June, 1884, for conspiring
to depose Hitler and set himself up
In his place. Hess few to England
under dramatic circumstances In
May, 1941. Goering remains as
field marshal, chief of the air force,
president of the Reichstag. premier
of Prussia, head forester of the
Reich, and director Of the gigantic
German four-yea plan for economic
-suficiency.
Masses Weren't Convinced.
The Hess escape had profound
repercussions. Here was a man
who always was regarded as his
masters shadow, a partisan who
had no other ambition than that o.
serving Adolf Hitler. He never ap-
pears to have had an idea of his
own: his job was that of executing
his masters will
Suddenly he fed. Was it as bad
as all that with Naziism, the masse:
asked?
They couldn't trust their ear:
when, after the British announced
the arrival of Hess in Scotland, the
German radio blared out the ex-
planation that Hess had been de-
mented for some time.
IF Hess is a sample, how many
other men in high places are crazy?'
I heard more than one German
say. Berlin wits soon took hold OF
the situation and coined the phrase
I'm crazy-I1l take a plane for
England"
The regime must have realized
that the explanation about Hess
suddenly becoming crazy was not
convincing with the masses. So the
Goebbels propaganda ministry en-
ployed typical Nazi methods-an
order issued to the press that all
Evening star., 1942-06-06
The Political Mill
Need for Synthetic Rubber Speedily
Indicates VoIue of Grain Alcohol Process

rubber production Is brought
about in this country. 1t will be
continued long after the war.
Furthermore. the synthetic rub
Der will be improved and its cost
Of manufacture will be reduced
as time goes on.
Assets Claimed for Each
The grain people naturally
want the grain alcohol process.
The oil-and the rubber COM
panies which are closely related
wish to make rubber out of the
oil process. The grain process is
the quicker. The oil process. from
the testimony given, Is the
cheaper.
There arises, however, the
question of conservation. This
country can grow grain ad in
finitum. The oil supply is an
other matter. 1t doesn't grow
and once it is used up it Is gone.
Alf M. Landon, Republican
candidate for President in 1886,
former Governor of Kansas and
an oil man. speaking yesterday
in Chicago, argued strongly for
the grain process for making
rubber. Il have always based
my public and private policy"
he said, ION the fact that oil is a
vital, irreplaceable natural re-
source. Regardless of my private
interest, thing that is the only
sound policy. Farm products are
replaceable. In fact, you can
make alcohol out of anything
grown on the farm.
THE War Production Board is
just getting around to making a
survey of the whole grain alcohol
problem" Mr.. Landon added.
"One of the Democratic Senators
accuses Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard of being asleep at the
switch on this grain-rubber sit
uation.
But the WPB does not
deny that rubber can be made
from grain by way of alcohol.
1t raises other objections, of cost
and transportation.
Would Use DistilIeries.
It think we should do every-
thing to cut the cost of Govern
ment, but not in a situation OF
this kind. We should take the
distilleries for massed production
Of alcohol for rubber. And GER
tainly we can get into production
more quickly that way than by
building petroleum rubber plants
from the ground up. Contracts
for some Of these plants have
only been let in the last few
Evening star., 1942-06-06
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MUSIC.
Concert, United States Soldiers
Home Band Orchestra, Soldiers
Home Bandstand, $50 pm. today.
Organ recital, Washington Chapel,
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints, Sixteenth and Colum-
bia road NV, 8 pm. today.
DINNER.
George Washington University
Law Glass of 1917, Mayfower Hotel,
7 pm. today.
DANCES.
All States Club, Hotel Washing
ton, $50 pm. today.
EXHIBIT.
Summer Art Show, sponsored by
members of the Arts Club, 2017 I
street NV, opening tomorrow
through the remainder of the sum-
mer.
OUTINGS.
Bird Walk, Chevy Chase Lake,
Md, sponsored by the National
Capital Parks Service, meet at rail-
road crossing at end of the Con-
necticut avenue bus lines, 7:30 am.
tomorrow.
Hike, Accotink Creek (VaO area,
sponsored by the Capital Hiking
Club, meet at Union Station, 8 a m.
tomorrow.
Barge trip down the C. & o.
Canal on horse-drawn barge, leaves
Key Bridge at 10 am. tomorrow.
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Dinner, dancing, sponsored by
the Covenant-First Presbyterian
Church, Fellowship House, 1868 Mas
sachusetts avenue NV. 6:l5 pm.
today.
Dinner, dancing, Foundry Metho-
Evening star., 1942-06-06

1t can be assumed that the Jap
anese have massed the bulk Of
their heavy fleet-battleships,
carriers, heavy cruisers and nee
essary auxiliaries-in order to
overcome the strong defenses
which protect Midway, 1,700
miles from Oahu Island.
Careful analysis Of the situa-
tion suggests that the major Jap
effort, at least for the time being,
will be concentrated on Midway.
It is possible, of course, that the
enemy will make demonstrations
along the California coast or
against the Panama Canal to
distract American naval forces.
But, in the opinion of most mill
tary and naval strategists, these
will be mere demonstrations, on
the order of the attack against
Dutch Harbor.
Japs Always Cautious.
1t is known in Washington
that the heavy japanese feet
has not been in action yet. Older
Jap battleships participated in
operations in the South Pacific,
but the Japanese have used
mostly cruisers and destroyers
in those engagements.
Few aircraft carriers have en-
gagged in sea battles since De-
cember 7. Hence, it is fair to
assume that the core" of the
Japanese Navy has been kept in
home waters for such operations
as are now developing.
Strategically the Japanese high
command has made very few mis-
takes. 1t is true that they have
had to deal with inferior United
Nations forces; but even so, the
Evening star., 1942-06-06

weeks, and undoubtedly some are
still to be let.
The operators OF the distil-
leries say they will need only a
slight change of existing plants
to produce alcohol for rubber.
New plants, closer to raw ma
terialS, should solve the trans
portation problem. If not, the
railroads are still hauling a lot
of non-essentials that could be
cut out. Furthermore, they
haven't fallen down yet on any
job that has been given them"
The Gillette subcommittee is
TO continue its hearings next
week. They will probe into re-
ports that the big rubber COM
panies-not to mention the oil
companies-are placing their own
interests ahead of the quickest
and largest production of syn
thetic rubber. There is no ques-
ton that large interests are con-
cerned in this whole fight over
the production of synthetic rub
Der. The Senate committee
members believe that the country
is entitled to know all the facts
in the case.
The main thing is to get rub
ber, in the largest possible guam
titles. in the speediest possible
manner. The cost, under present
conditions, when rubber is vitality
needed for war purposes as we'll
as for domestic, Is secondary.
There is also the question of re-
claimed rubber from which this
country can get a very large sup
ply of the material so much
needed.
Evening star., 1942-06-06
TidoI Bosin Bridge
Contract Awarded

Award of contract for the con-
struction of bridge over the north
bay of Tidal Basin. In connection
with the widening and extension of
Independence avenue as a link In
new arteries to Federal structures
in nearby Virginia, was announced
yesterday by the Commissioners.
The contract was awarded TO Alex
andria g. Repass and A. M. Cohran
e. Son, of Des Moines, Iowa. for
$773,845. The work includes seawall
construction and grade separation
structure along the eastbound sec
ton of Independence avenue at
point east of Seventeenth street
S.W.
Priorities have been granted for
the structures, and work is to be
started soon II materials are made
available. The bridge, to be built on
piles, will have q limestone facing.
Evening star., 1942-06-06
,etyeen Goering and Himmler are

between Goering and Himmler are
strained, and that the Reichs-
marshal is by no means in harmony
with all Gestapo practices.
1t is also known that his wife,
Emmy, intervened for many hap
less Jewish artists, and that Goer-
ing himself once said, when con-
fronted with the fact that one
Jewish kapellmeister continued to
conduct at the state opera. ''it is I
who determines who is Jew and
who not"
Furthermore, Goering is an Of
ficer from imperialist days. He al
Evening star., 1942-06-06

ways has remained q monarchist at
heart. He never has broken off his
connections with the former ruling
families of Germany.
On one occasion, to my positive
knowledge, an American in Berlin
was visited by a man claiming to
represent Goering, The question
he put was: Would the American
administration have the same OBJ
jections to Goering at the head Of
the German government that 1t
has to Hitler?
Watch Goering, is all that the
trained observer of German politics
can say to inquiring compatriots.
Evening star., 1942-06-06
SIX MONTHS OF WAR!
A Good Time for Stock Taking
The COmmander-in.Chief

The Commander.in.Chief
How has President Roosevelt held up under the terrific
strain of his tremendously expanded problems? How has
he made the transition from peacetime Executive to
the head of great Nation at war? How do his powers
compare with those of other Presidents? Clarke
Beach, writing in the Editorial Feature Section of The
Sunday Star will give you the to these and other
questions
review of the past six months has been prepared by
Blair Boles while Fred Vanderschmdt discusses the ev
dent preparations for invasion of Europe Constantine
Brown writes of the exploding of the myth Of Axis nv
cibility.
Evening star., 1942-06-06

Western Europe would get little
beyond the character of Com
mando raid.
The NaZis are convinced that
If the japanese carry their at
tacks dangerously close to Amer
ican territory and capture stra-
tegic points close to Hawaii or
the West Coast, there will be
such an emotional outburSt in
this country that any plans which
the United Nations make will be
set aside to permit American air,
sea and land forces to concen-
trate against an enemy who may
threaten our shores.
Evening star., 1942-06-06
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The Japanese attack on Mid
way Island, which had been an
ticipated in naval and military
quarters since the Japanese feet
began massing at home bases
several weeks ago, is considered
In Washington as the beginning
Of a major enemy. offensive
against the outer defenses of the
Hawaiian Islands.
While the battle Is in progress
there is, naturally, no informa-
tion as to its development. But
Evening star., 1942-06-06

Of large apart
ment buildings.
Here in New
York thousands
of them are un-
dergoing expert
ences W hic h
would test the
nerve of a Com
mando" or q
tank driver.
1t Is their lot
to hold open
house Tor all the
other tenants
Evening star., 1942-06-06

De uOllc.
But there's one
suggestion which
has been made
by a prominent
automobile COM
pany executive
which Is certain
ly vel and
might be more
effective tn a n
any other plan
in cutting out
Joy riding and
non-es S e n t i a !
travel and vet
Evening star., 1942-06-06

THE opinions OF the writers this their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented In The
Stars effort to ue all sides OF questions OF interest to It's
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1942-06-06
McLemore-
Apartment 'AIerts'
Touch Off BedIum
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

NEW YORK.-Among the un-
hohored heroes and heroines Of the
Home Front are those men and
women who live on the middle floors
Evening star., 1942-06-06

Louis P. Lochner, back In
America after fue months in
ternment in Germany, analyses
the men closest to Hitler.
Evening star., 1942-06-06
High Gas Tax
Suggested
AsCheck
Advantage Of Big
Federal Income
Pointed OUT
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

This Capital is seething with dis
cussion about rubber tires and gaso-
line rationing. Nearly everybody has
his own theory as to what ought to
Evening star., 1942-06-06
High Taxes and the Public

High Taxes and the Public
Senator Harry F. Byrd long batter for economy in
governmental spending has written an important article
for The Sunday Star and the North American Newspaper
Alliance in which he stresses the need for pairing down
of all non-war expenditures to a minimum.
Senator Byrd declares that the public really has not
pressed itself as yet So far there has not been much
reaction to the unprecedented spending of billions When
the new tax bill becomes law, he says crisis will be
reached Then, he expects the public will be heard Sen
ator Byrds article will warrant close reading.
Evening star., 1942-06-06

Your word may b N good ~ your
bond-but Uncle Sam would rather
have the bond.