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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-05-22
WINNER WILL.
BE ENTERED IN.
STATE FINALS
W,ylene Strong Defeats
Five Opponents To
!. Win Award

Miss Wylene Strong, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Wyatt Strong, IS
Harmon street, won the oratorical
contest sponsored by the joint edu-
cational committee OF four Elk
Lodges and Temples. held Sunday
at Lucy Thurman Branch Y.wC.A.
Miss Strong. who represented the
newly ganized Temple, Lady Ca
mile, won the favorable decision OF
the judges because Of the clearness
Of her diction. poise and confidence.
Goes To State Meet
AS result OF her victory Miss
Strong will represent Detroit in
the state oratorical meet to be
held at Jackson. June IL. where
she will compete against represen-
tatives from other cities in Michi-
gan. The winner OF this contest
will 60 to the regional meet, and
the winner of the regional contest
will be awarded the one thousand
dollar scholarship.
The judges were: Mrs. Madeline
Fowler. executive secretary OF Lucy
Thurman Branch Y.WC.A.; Mrs.
Rosa Gragg. president OF the Asso-
citation of Colored Women's Clubs:
Mrs. Willie Mae Johnson. political
and social leader; Fred Hart Will
liams. former state director Of edu-
cation for the Elks: w. T. Boyd. ac-
countant and income tax expert.
The sponsoring committee was
composed Of: Mrs. Charlotte Map.
chairman of Beulah Land Temple:
Miss Mary Simms. chairman OF
Lady Camille Temple: Mrs. Helen
CAN'T. E. B. Williams. chairman.
Pride Of Michigan Lodge: Lloyd NJ.
Golfer. chairman OF Motor City
Lodge. and Brazil J. Bryant, grand
trustee.
Miss Strong spoke on The Negro
and the Constitution" The other
contestants are:
Annie Hibbett, Northern: Gwen
dolyn Coleman. Cass: Wilhclmina
irwin. Northwestern: Harry G..
Lewis. McMichacl; Sylvia Massen-
berg. Mile. Each contestant was
awarded two dollars in war saving
stamps. while the winner was given
five dollars in stamps.
The program was opened by Mrs
Helen CAN'T. chairman of Florence
Ames Temple, with the audience
singing America" Mrs. CAN'T then
presented the state director. Mrs.
Carrie Curtis. who conducted the
contest
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-05-22
Hughes Receives
Honorary Degree

CHESTER. Pa. - tANP) - The
honorary degree Lift D., will be
conferred on LanGston Hughes.
poet and novelist. next week at the
commencement exercises Of Lin
coin university here. Hughes was
graduated from the school in 1899
and since tina: time has distin-
cuishcd himself-ass a writer, lee
turer and traveller.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-05-22

The German U-boat was sunk
of the Carolina coast some months
ago while the Icarus was on a rou-
tine run southwark from New York.
The captured crew was taken to
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19
NAZIS HAVE LOST 100000 MEN

More thar 100000 Nazi soldiers are
now believed to have been killed, captured
or permanently crippled so far in the war,
reports c. L. Sulzberger, writing from Lon
don to the New York Times.
The newspaper correspondent says the
estimate is based on confidential figures, as
sembled by the intelligence division of one
of the United Nations and German insur-
ance statistics Struggled out of the Reich.
These are astounding figures, ndicat-
ing the enormous losses that the Germans
have suffered in Russia, where the bulk of
the heavy fighting has occurred, according
to the RedSHArmy theory that successful
strategy in this war against Hitlerism in
wolves bleedingi it to death. NJ
The confidential report made avail,
able to the correspondent estimated Ger
man losses, up to June 80, 1912, at 1885,
600 dead, 100000 severely wounded and
incapable of further service, and $500 900
lightly wounded
Losses at the same rate for the second
half of 1912 would bring the totals to l. $780,
600 killed, 10000 incapacitated and
more than 100000 when prisoners and
missing are counted. These figures are
termed conservative in view of recent events
in Russia where the Red Army's Winter of
fensive is playing havoc with German
armies .--s. -
The estimate is that Germany has
about 100000 men under arms at this
time out of a population of &c, 100000 males.
of whom 100000 are children less than
15'years old and 100000 are men over 65
years of age This leaves $4,000, 900 men
disposed for military and auxiliary duties
at the fronts and behind the lines
By subtracting the men under arms
and those dead and capacitated, the Reich
has manpower reservoir of IL 200, 900
left. This is not enough for the extensive
and heavy requirements of the German
war effort, especially when it includes boys
between fifteen and seventeen and old men
above sixty years.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19
THE BOX OFFICE CHAMPIONS

: We see where Messrs. Bud Abbot ana
Lou Costello have been voted the nations
best box-office attraction by the theatre
owners of the country.
This seems to establish the popularity
OF the comedians with the public. 1t also
goes to show just how far away our judg-
ment IS from that of the public
Anyhow, in free country, the puble
pays its money and it makes its choice In
cidently, the comedians have given more
than $40 performances in 400 Army camps
and have been responsible for the sale of
an enormous amount of war bonds.
They deserve the good hand that they
get from the public even if we cannot agree
with the public'S choice,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19
SHOES ON THE FRONT LINE

The order rationing shoes to three pairs
a year for every man, woman and child is
another indication that the nation must use
its available supplies for the needs of the
armed forces.
The order will probably be followed
by others, regulating other commodities
now on unrestricted sale. Gradually, the
people of this country are beginning to APP
preciate what total war means.
There will arise complaints from the
same groups of citizens who criticize the
rationing of gasoline, sugar, coffee, tires
and food
The public will hear that there is
plenty of leather, that new supplies have
been mismanaged and that there is no nee
essity for rationing shoes 1t is what the
public will hear about any future rationing
regulations.
1t may be observed, however, that ra-
tioning can be avoided by any critic who
will enlist in the fighting forces Of the ma
ton. On the front lines, man can have
anything that he can get. He can enjoy
other things if he manages to live. .
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19
INCONVENIENCE ARE PETTY THINGS

The OPA is now striking with the sud-
denness of a camouflaged machine-gun, but
its latest surprise edict, banning the sale of
canned meat and fish till April 1, is of little
consequence in Key West.
There might have been some grocers
who had in stock canned roast beef and can
ned corned beef during the last month or so,
but the writer was unable to find any OF
them. And the only canned fish he ran
across were sardi1les of the cheaper sort and
an occasional few cans Of mackerel.
So Rrentiss Browns latest surprise or
der takes nothing from the tables in Key
West. So far as canned meats and fish are
concerned the tables will look the same
from now to April l as they had been look
ing for several weeks before the ban was
suddenly announced.
AS there is tendency among small
percentage of Americans, war or no war,
to try to beat Uncle Sam to the punch, Mr..
Brown, The Citizen thinks, is pursuing the
right course to squelch that type of Amer
lean. AS rule, he's the type that hurrahs
loudest when Old Glory is flung to the
at attention, when THE Star Spangled Ban
ner' is played. But when it comes to matter
of Tightening his belt a little more to pro-
mote the war-effOrt, his brain sets to work
to devise schemes to undo what the govern
ment asks him to do.
Had he been given notice that the sale
of canned meat and fish would be discon-
tinued in few days and would be kept off
the market till April 1, he would have
boarded these foods, instead of complying,
as every true blue American would have
done, with the OPA order
Some months ago The Citizen re-
marked, in a light vein, that Key Westers,
before the war is over, may pOpularize
again that good old standby of happier
days-grits and grunts. But The Citizen
was earnest, when it added, that, even
though we are reduced to faring on that
humble DISH we will be sundry thousands
Of times better off than those Americans
who are risking their lives so that we may
live as we have been accustomed to living.
Inconvenience, whatever they may be.
on the home front, are of little consequence
compared with the hardships in those
places where death tirelessly stalks day and
night. All of us can not fight, but all of us
can keep our chins up while we uncom-
plainingly submit to everything Uncle Sam
believes will help the men who are fighting
for us.
Inconvenience are petty things in this
war.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19
SHARE-THE-CAR DRIVE STALLS

directors vino are coodncsinE ne
so-called exit interviews eaulz-
les Of persons who insist on leaw-
ing their jobs ! have lived q.
worked IN. OF visited mary Of
the ccuntry's big cIueS. and Ct
all those. only New YORK can
tie wartime Washington n Is
reluctance 70 accept newcnnGx
And its the newconzz here
who are not driving cars and
who are looking for some sort CT
share-the-coSt. II not shzre-che-
cara transportation
There is enc ether important
factor The WashinEton share
yOur-czr program has ben KICK
ed around 50 much that 10 aEen-
cy has really rad Al opportunity
TO develop t. Most Of the tine.
II has been IN OCD. but even
there Il has had 10 sEi6Izg place
Of sufficient permanence 10 per
nit enforcement Of any Tzles
and regulations.
Officials are trying 60 CD
something about that n0w. III
the CONSENSUS Is that rs pretty
hopeless and never can - rrHzgnt
TO even the partIsl success winch
some war INDUSTRY areas have
approached
In the meantime, loczl trzns-
pOTtatl0n here As q wartime slow
down When the psablic trznsp0r-
tatiun system Is upset. as 4 was
by the recent big snow storm. u
becomes a definite threat % e.
fective prosecution Of the ~ar-
Russell E Singer. AAA -
eral manager. IN sg1gurIng I'D the
local report, said Much p0ten-
tial transportation space Tn the
DISTRICT is being wasted Ne
have a long Way 10 g before
We can say that the aut0rOblles
IN Washington and surroGncEng
territory are being used % max
imum capacity
That's putting il mildly.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19
BY RUSSELL KAY

clear, congressman are thinking
along independent lines.
= The fault does not lie with the
laboring man. A large percentage
of union members don't like the
present situation any better than
! the public does but they are pow
erless to do much about it so long
as the union bosses are allowed to
operate unbridled and unchecked.
Congress can very easily rem
edy the Situation and end the
abuses that have brought labor in
to disrepute by simply passing
laws that will provide for the same
supervision over the acts of labor
as now exist over the control of
; business and industry.
! Gross discrimination exists.
Business and industry are framed
! in network of federal and state
regulations to a point where the
! average employer is kept so busy
filling out questionnaires, sub
hitting to inspections and grovel-
ling to the majesty of the bureau
Gratis, he is miracle worker if
he stays IN business.
{ Labor on the other hand, is ,ac
countable, to mo- ,pne,, not even
! to those in its 1QWn.yanks. Tyran;
nical leaders impose ;3heir will. on
the workers am, they fan liks5S,
or else. No one seeks information
as to their incomes or y their ex7i
penditures. A. John Lewis may
spend a million dollars to elect a
president of the United States
without the consent of one union
member.
If an employer even acts like
he wanted to have something to
say about the operation of his own
business. labor runs screaming
to Washington and flock of bu
reaucrats. laWyercrats, concilia-
tors, referees, seconds and hang
ers-on come rushing to labor's
corner with everything from set
of -knuckles to dray-horse's
shoe for their boy, while the cry
of Foul goes up if the business
man even doubles his fist.
The outcome of the recent gen.
eral election gave ample evidence
of the temper of the American
people to this sort of thing and
the outlawing of CLOSED shops" in
Florida will be applauded from
ocean to ocean and coast to
coast. If labor was smart it would
accept this little restriction and
Re thankful it isn't any worse.
Eut ~ 9uess is the pendulum will
ewing the whole way.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print 1t
W thout fear and without favor; never be
always fight for progress; never be the Or
gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique,
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue,
commend good done by Individual or organ
ization; tolerant of others rights, views and
opinions: print only news that will elevate
and not contaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19
TOdav's Birthdays

U. S. Senator Scott w. Lucas
of Illinois, bern there, 81 years
ago.
DR.. Milton c. Winternitz, Yale
pathologist, born Baltimore, SO
years ago.
John H. Fahey. Commissioner.
Federal Home Loan Bank Admin
istration, born Manchester, N.
H., 70 years ago.
Guy F. Allen. U. S. Treasury's
Chief of Disbursement, born Del
phi, Mich, IS years ago.
Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English
actor, born go years ago.
= Thomas D. Campbell of Mon
tana, agricultural engineer noted
large-scale farmer, born Grand
Forks, N. D., 61Jyears ago.
70 -
Bishop Robert E. Jones, of Co.
lumbus, Ohio, of the Methodist
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19
LEGALS

~ THE CIRCUIT CoERT 0F THE
ELENENTn 81 DECHAL CtRCNET
oF THE STATE 0F FLORIDA. -
AND F-uR MONROE CufNTH.
~ CAANGEHN-
GmM~ N@. @~SW8
JOSEPHINE BEY Fans EENAlsI-E..
I'lafntHf.
-. nav 0RCE
WNLIE NESABLE.
Defendant
ORDER o. ~ NH.EG aEHaN
TO- WNLIE NENARIE,
2227 81 Jean ave.
Detroit. Michigan.
You are hereby required To ap-
pear 10 the bill % complaint
filed against you in the above
styled cause on the first M9nday IN
April, A. H. 1913. otherwise the al
legations 81 said bin u ill - taken
- confessed
Done and ordered al KEY West.
Monroe County. Florida. this lsGh
day Of February. a H. 1919.
(SEALB Ross e sawyer
Clerk Of the Circuit Court
BY: (SdD Kathleen Nottawe.
Deputy Clerk
WILLIAM v. ALBUHY.
Attorney for Plaintiff.
-26smars-l2.1s45
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19
BY JACK STINNETT
Alp Features Service Writer
WA GHTNGTON Feb ia

Alp Features Service Writer
WASHINGTON, Feb. l9-Ac-
cording to the District of Colum-
bia division of the American
Automobile Association. the ma
tional capitals share-the-csr pro-
gram has begged down
The AAA survey, conducted in
both the District and suburbs.
shows that cars arrive in SHOP
ping and government office
areas with an average of ap-
proximately two persons per
car, so slight an increase over the
start of the share-your-car drive
that it is hardly worth consider
ing.
Not only that, says the AAA,
but holders of B and c cards have
a record only fractionally better
than the limited A-card holders.
There are only two conclu-
sions to be drawn from this: Cd
The national capitals car-owners
are uncooperative; q this is one
of the country's most unfriendly
towns.
! don't know what the AAA
conclusions are. They wOuldn' I
state them. But / think both OF
those deductions are partially
tTC-.
Most of the capitals drivers
today are government workers.
Many are working to the limit of
their endurance and the rest
think they are. Generally they
feel, perhaps, that they should
not be- asked to take on the ad-
ditional burden of playing bus
driver mornings and evenings;
nor should they risk hardness or
late arrivals home by participant
ing in a transportation round
robin.
On the other hand, Washington
Except for its taxi drivers) is no
longer a friendly town" If you
want proof, ask the personnel
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19
100 LA TIE TO
CLASSIFY

! Thanks to the determined and
courageous effoltS of Attorney
General Tom Watson, a free-born
American in Florida, att least,
may seek employment in war
industry without first making his
peace and crossing the palm of
some union boss.
The courts have ruled that the
CLOSED shop" is illegal and con-
trary to public policy. The unions
will appeal to higher courts and
the outcome of these cases can
have far-reaching effects.
Just as industry in an earlier
day overstepped the bounds of de-
cency and fair play, so today has
organized labor abused the power
it has attained to the end that it
finds itself faced with an irate
public opinion.
Earlier New Deal Congresses
have given labor more and more
rope, egged on by All adminiStra-
ton determined to coddle and en-
courage labor, backing up its ev-
cry demand. Now the administra-
ton is beginning to stew in the
pot of its own unsavory brew.
One of the questions that Man
power CommissioeeEI Paul McNutt
will have to decide IS whether or
not, in ordering a fellow citizen
to give up one job and take an
other, that free citizen must pay
tribute in the form of union initia-
ton fees and dues.
Editor Gilbert Leach of the Lees
burg Commercial sums it up like
this:
If our fellow Hoosier, Paul
McNutt, takes one man out of a
job where he is making a living
on his own and puts him on a
job that he - McNutt - CLASH
fies as essential, and that man
is compelled to pay tribute to a
union racketeer before he can
start on the job or even after
he is placed on that new job,
then - that man becomes a
PEON."
The closed shop question with
of the MANY problems that must
be solved, and the present Con-
eress is being pressed for action
Unlike those that preceded it, this
new Congress gives every indica-
ton of being able to think and act
on its own. The rubber stamp has
been tossed in the ashcan and
with the feelings of constituents
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

If you can still get pastel shaded
after-dinner minis they can be
used effectively for coloring cake
frostings. Crush the candies until
like powder, then thin with a lit
tie cream and use as frosting or add
to other frostings to give the de
sired tint.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

We admire the Chinese tremendously
for THEN splendid battle against an over
towering foe, but we think they have lot
Ofneve when they begin to talk about what
the United States owes China.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

SLOW soon do You leave for camp. Bob"
Next Tuesday. Judge Bill and George
are leaving the same time. We're hoping to
wind up In tank outfit"
well, the way I've seen you handle a
tractor. Bob. you ought to be right at home
in one of those tanks. You're going to like
the service they're great bunch of fel-
lows. Just last week went down to camp
10 s1e young nephew of mine and he
introduced me to some Of his buddies. Fine
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

To remove all food parts from
fat used for deep fat frying, strain
the warm grease through heavy
muslin cloth into the container.
Cover the fat when it has cooled
and store in the refrigerator. Food
clinging to fat to be saved is like
ly to cause spoilage.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19
THE THRIFTY COOK
SAYS

Check up frequently to make
sure that the fat you are saving
for cooking is not rancid. II IS bet
ter to use several jars for storing
this fat and not pour some fresh
fat into that of a little off flavor.
This is wartime must"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

The Citizen in an editorial
paragraph says today:
Our grandfather no doubt
would have thought us flippant:
our grandchildren probably will
think the same of u.s."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

Cover meat and poultry with
waxed paper and store in the cold
est part of the refrigerator for
best keeping.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19
KEY WEST In
DAYS GONE BY
FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN
OF FEBRUARY ls, 1888

Colonel Carlos Mendieta, who
is freely mentioned as the next
President of Cuba, arrived here
yesterday afternoon from Havana
on the steamship Florida -
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

Miss Mollie Parker, chairman
of the Conservation Committee of
tie Monroe Council. for upem-
ployment Relief, announced today
she has received 100 packages of
vegetable seeds which she will dis
tribute to Key Westers who wish
to plant gardens.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

Mrs. George Morris returned
yesterday from Miami, where she
had been a guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Gordon Emf.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

Do not add soda to cooking
vegetables; it destroys Vitamins B
and G.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

Vanilla is the cured pod of one
of the orchid family of plants.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

Webster Russell returned Sat-
urdav from a two weeks visit in
TaVernier.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

3 Mrs. Ralph Sanders, who had
been visiting her mother, Mrs.
Leslie Curry, the last two months,
left yesterday for her home in
Atlanta. %.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

w. r. Kenan, one of the receiv-
ers of the Florida East Coast Rail
way Co., was in Key West on
an official visit yesterday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lunn left
yeterday for Miami, where Mr.
Lunn will have his eyes treated
during his visit there.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

Donald Williams, who is max
ing his home in Miami, arrived
yesterday to visit his mother,
Mrs. Charles S. Williams, Mar
garet and Eaton streets. -
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

Founders Day will be observed
tomorrow by the Junior Senior
nt-Teacher's Association at a
meeting to be held in the high
school auditorium.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

William Mendell left yesterday
for Philadelphia and New York
where he will arrange to purchase
a large stock of spring and sum-
mer goods.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

We read an editorial the other day on
Where the Money Is?" That's what we
would like to know
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

The State Road Department has
notified county commissioners
that its forces will start next week
to repair roads in Monroe county
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19
Especially the Last

Name the solids"
Mineral, vegetable, geometry,
and comfort"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

Henry del Pine, who had been
in Key West a week visiting
relatives, left yesterday for Gin
cinnati, where he is now making
his home.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-19

Vernon Spencer was a passen-
ger on the afternoon train yes
terday for Miami. where he will
spend a fortnight visiting rela-
tives and friends in that city.