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mo. WE HAVE NO
SHOES TODAY" BUT
TOMORROW WE WILL

B. L. Grooms, chairman of the
Monroe County Rationing Board,
received \ telegram yesterday
that shoes had been placed on a
rationing basis by the OPA.
The OPA's contemplated ac-
ton in this matter had been kept
a secret to offset any movement
that might have been made to
hoard shoes. Not even Mr..
GroomS, himself, or any other
chairman of a rationing board,
had been given any advanced in
formation that shoes would be
rationed.
So that there could not be any
run in buying shoes, the OPA or
dered that none could be sold
anywhere in the country today
Sales will be started tomorrow,
and, as Mr., Grooms pointed out,
a pair of shoes may be obtained
for coupon No. II in the No.
rationing book, which is now
used in Purchasing sugar and
coffee. "'"i'
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FOUNDERS DAY
TO BE OBSERVED

The PIT. A. of the Division
Street School will celebrate
Founders Day and Fathers Night
together Tuesday might, Febru-
airy g.
A very interesting program
has been planned for the gala
evening and one of the events
will be the presentation of the
Founders Dav birthday cake as
the door prize.
The mothers and dads of the
children will find it an evening
we'll spent, PIT. A. officials said
today.
The special program will in
clUde selections by the Navy
Choir and many other interest
ing features.
Pupils of the school are urging
their parents to be present. A
prize is to be awarded the room
having the most fathers in at
tendance.
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=: SOCIETY =:
LARGE NUMBER OF RESERVATIONS
MADE FOR CABARET PERFORMANCE

Mrs. James A. Hearn and Mrs.
A. M. Morgan are pleased to an
nounce the wholehearted support
of the Key WeSters and Army and
Navy personnel in making reser-
vationS for the Connally Cabaret
on the nights of Feb. 9th and 10th
at $50 o'clock, at the Habana-Ma-
drid Club.
Even though a very satisfactory
number have already made reser-
vations many tables are available
for both performances, and reser-
vations will be taken at 881-w or
974 until 5 p. M, Tuesday after
noon for the first show and 5 p. m,
Wednesday for the second.
Among those who have already
reserved tables are: Commander
and Mrs. Joseph Swain, party of
10; Mrs. Clara Bowris, party of 8;
Lieut.. and Mrs. Joseph Wheeler,
party of 8; DR.. and Mrs. William
Warren, party of d; Mr. and Mrs.
James A. Hearn, party of 8; Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Laid, party of 10;
Mr.. and Mrs. Norberg Thompson,
party of 10; Miss Eta Patterson,
party of Is; Mrs. R. E. Chersy,
table for 8; Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Eberhardt, a party of 5; Mrs.
Glorianna Bayly, party of 2; Mr..
and Mrs. Sebastian Cabrera, table
for g.; Mrs. Rob Roy Ricketts,,
party of 4; Mr.. and Mrs. William
Fripp will have 9 at their table;
Col. and Mrs. L C. Brinton and
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MRS. MARY ELIZABETH
SHELTON. SO

Miss Mary Elizabeth Shelton,
age 80, died Sunday morning a:
10:30 O'Clock at her residence,
1929 Petronia street.
Funeral services will be held .
O'Clock this afternoon from the
Ley Memorial Church. The body
was placed in the church at 200
o'clock this afternoon.
Rev. William Bryant, pastor OF
Ley Memorial, will officiate at
the services. Lopez Funeral
Home is in charge of arrange
mentS.
Survivors of the deceased in
clude two sons, John Luther and
Curry Shelton; three daughters,
MeSdameS Merville E. RoSam,
Hilburn Pinder and w. F. Ham
lin; a sister, Mrs. Julia Sawyer;
l8 grandchildren and a great
grandchild.
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Uncle Sam Needs No Weak Sisters
BY MARGARET KERNODLE
AP Features Writer


WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-Dr.
Dorothy LaSalle is worried
woman.
The thing she's worried about
is the way women are losing
their chance to be physically fit
for war wordsworth they must
do to enable more men to leave
civilian life for military duty.
What's happening in too many
places, she says, is that school
administrators, intently bent on
making boys fit to fight, shove
their sisters out of their own
gymnasiums.
DR.. LaSalle is travelling about
the United States appearing in
US. Office of Education insti-
tutes designed to encourage a
hurry-up program of physical
fitness for both sexes in high
school Uater there will be a
college program too In New
York and Boston more than l.
900 educators turned out for the
institutes, and DR.. LaSalle says
they were eager to pep up the
physical training program.
AS an expert consuitant to the
Office of Education, DR.. LaSalle
is on leave of absence for a year
from the East Orange, N. j.,
schools, where she is physical ed
ucation director.
She has studied American
women and children extensively
as an expert. She was a member
CT the White House Conference
for Child Health and Protection
called by President Hoover in
1929-31. Shes been in admins
trative work in New York and
Chicago and in Bennington, VT.
Her undergraduate and graduate
study was at the University of
Oregon and Columbia Univer-
Sity.
Training For Girls
Recently a man said to her
What do these school girls need
with physical training? They're
going into factory"
And that is the reason! The
very reason, says DR.. LaSalle,
that they do need physical train
ing just as many other women
will need it. They must be able
to do any little job and over and
over accurately and fast.
She explains the kind of en-
durance we women are to need
more and more will be the ability
to stand on our feet for long
hours of tedious and perhaps
boringly routine work. And We
require greater strength of feet
and abdominal walls than most
of us seem to have. For more
lifting, women must be stronger
in the arms and shoulders.
DR.. LaSalle not only found
some high school girls unable to
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Renedo saws, will be glad TO turn
over to the Navy for use as a
Seaplane base.
The lodge is located on Plan
tation Key, with a frontage of
800 feet on the stream and on
the bay. A wharf on each side
extends $50 feet cut into the wa
ter and has a T-head of 100 feet
On the site are u buildings,
including the administration
building, with three dining rooms
and suite of offices. There Is
a landing barge on each side of
the tract, and on the site are an
electric plant, a water system
and a sewer system. On the bay
side of the property the depth of
water ranges from six and one
half TO eight feet. "a
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REDS MOVING

Continued from Page One)
have been recaptured in the south
east sector.
Three Russian armies are ad-
vancing on Rostov, one from the
east, second from the northeast
and the third from the southeast.
The laSt-named is closest to that
city and it is that army that the
Stockholm report said has already
entered RoStov.
Another Russian army is report
ed today to be within artillery fire
of Hurst, and still another army
is said to have reached the suburbs
of Kharkov.
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party of 6; Mr.. and Mrs. John
Gardner have table for 6; Jack
Behan will entertain a party OF
5; Mrs. Flossie Baker, a party of
4; Herman Holsberg, a table for
4; Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Brown,
a table for 6; DR.. and Mrs. D.
Cobo, table for 8; Capt. E. B. Mum
ford, table for f; MIR. and Mrs.
Joseph R. Valdes, DR.. and Mrs.
P. D. Holloway will have table
for 4; Capt. and Mrs. Frank Par
son have a party of 10 at their
table.
Others making reservations are:
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Oxford,
party of 4; John Pritchard, party
of 4; Mr.. and Mrs. Jeff Knight,
Mrs. Allshouse, party of 6; and Mrs.
Airline. Mr.. and Mrs. Holste, Miss
Hall and Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Smith and party, Mr.. and Mrs.
Raymond Curry and party; Mr..
Sadler, Mr.. Sails, Mr.. and Mrs.
Shriver and party of 10; Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Wilson and party of
16; Ensign and Mrs. L. M. Lynch
and party; Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A.
Shredder and party of II; Mr.. and
Mrs Monte Street, table for 5; Mr..
Stearns, party of 4; Mr.. and Mrs.
Milton Sawyer, 4; Mr.. and Mrs. J.
L. Chapman, 5; Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Johnson, party of 8; Mr.. and Mrs.
Bert Baker, party of 8; Mrs. Joseph
Sawyer, party of 6; and party from
Boca Chica of 10, and others.
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COUNTY BOARD

Continued from Page One)
portant matters to attend to at
their first meeting, aside from the
naming of a chairman, the order
ing of the payment of bills for De
cember and January salaries for
those two months.
Late this afternoon Commits
Sioner Gomez said that, if he is
able to "dragii himself out, he viii
attend the meeting, but that. re-
gardlesS of whether or not he viii
attend, he was pleased to know
that the commission is going to ora
ganize, so that the affairs of the
county may be attended TO legal
ly.
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JUNIOR CLUB HAS
DEFERRED SESSION

The Key West Junior Woman's
Club which was to have held a
business meeting tomorrow eve
ming, has postponed it until Tues
day of next week because of the
cabaret that will be given to-
morrow and Wednesday evenings
by the Woman's Club.
The Juniors will, instead, at
tend the cabaret.
AT their meeting, next Tuesday,
arrangements will be made for
a series of affairs to be conduct
ed during the winter season.
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run an obstacle course but others
even unwilling to try. She has
discovered too MANY women in
uniform unable to take a three
mile walk. For reasons like that
she sees special need to protect
production work by training high
school and college girls for phys
ical strength now.
Teach En- Young
The best time to train women
physically is at high school
age, because then they develop
strength. That fits them for
whatever jobs they must do la
ter.
DR.. LaSalle pleads that moth
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MRS. PETRoNA VALDES. 81

Mrs. Petrona ValdeS, 81. died
Friday night at l0:45 o'clock at
her residence, 1907 Staples Ave
nue..
Announcement of funeral serv-
ices and burial will be made la
ter, pending the arrival of a
brother, Emigdio Valdes, from
Tampa.
Arrangements are in charge OF
Lopez Funeral Home.
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FOR
HAPLANE BASE
NOW AVAILABLE
CONSISTS OF FISHING LODGE
FACING GULF STREAM ON
PLANTATION KEY; LONG
WHARVES

The Navy has the opportunity
to obtain the use of fishing
lodge, facing on the Gulf Stream
and the Bay of Florida, with T
capped long wharves running
out into each body of water. for
the duration of the war, accord
ing to DR.. j. M. Renedo, former
ly of Key West, now of Miami,
who is on a business visit in Key
West today.
DR.. Renedo constructed the
lodge three years ago, and it is
now owned by his siSter-in-law,
Mrs. Ruby Renedo, who. DR..
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ers take as good care of them
selves as of their children, points
out that they, too, need exercise
walking will do), diet as bal
anced as their baby's and suffi-
Gent rest.
She advises mothers-to-be to
take extra special care of them
selves because their babies are
being born in difficult days: short
stays at hospitals and little or
no help afterward at home.
And her reminder for Ameri-
can women generally is that a big
reason for physical strength is
the fact that bodily fitness is so
closely related to morale.
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T omorrow's Tides
FORECAST

Key West and Vicinity: Con-
tinued cool this afternoon and
tonight.
Florida: Continued cool this
afternoon and tonight, followed
by slowly rising temperature
early Tuesday.
Hatteras, N. G, 20 Apalachi-
cola, Fla: No small craft or
storm warnings have been is
sued.
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the Receiving Station for

to the Receiving Station for
treatment.
Ensign r. J. Casper of the Re
ceiving Station stated today that
he would reques civil authorities
TO conduct an Investigation.
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Worlds largest oil line from
Texas to Illinois is completed.
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WEATHER REPORT

Observation taken at $50 a. m,
E.W.T. City Office
Temperatures
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Easy crop loans offered by
Wickard to spur food production.
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Bankhead tells Senate Allies
should fight and let us produce.
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SURFACE MEASUREMENT

DETROIT One degree of
longitude on the earth's surface
at the equator measurse 69.16
miles.
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Agriculture Department urges
planting of Victory gardens.
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MRS. JULIETTE KNOWLES
The body of Mrs. Juliette
Knowles, rs, who died in Miami
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Highest last "a hours -----------73
Lowest last night ----------60
Mean ------ 90
Normal 70
Precipitation
Rainfall "a hours ending
$50 a. m, inches --------- 600
Total rainfall since Feb. l.,
inches ----.--------- 600
Deficiency since Feb. /,
inches O.33
Total rainfall since Jan. l,
inches OIL
Deficiency since JAM. /,
inches --------------.--. 1,58
Relative Humidity
Tomorrow's Almanac
Evening star., 1943-06-13

further. "This road is now our
front line and our soldiers are on
it, closer to Tayug. There has been
fighting all day little to the north,
with many airplanes and much noise
of guns"
We reached San Nicolas with sur
prising speed and pulled up in the
tiny plaza in front of the rickety
church. I argued with the drivers.
Ten pesos to Tayug"
Il regret, sirs, that it is impos-
sible to 60 further"
Fifteen pesos for few miles.
Surely it is more than you have
made in one day in your life, viejo."
Finally they gave in. For Is pesos
they would take us as far as the
first sentry, and no farther. Going
west again, with the bony horses
trotting, we passed many calesas
and carabao-draWn carts fleeing to-
ward the mountains. The drivers
were urging on their animals, hop
Ing to reach shelter before night
which was only few minutes away.
A few hundred yards farthur on
we reached the sentries. Only a
faint flush of light was left in the
sky. We showed them oM press
cards and told them:
I'VE come from the nrothern front
Evening star., 1943-06-13

drank, and then kept going, putting
one weary foot ahead of the other.
That first night we stayed In a
small village by the river bank, as
guests of the village headman.
The second day we forded the San
Nicolas River 16 times. Once the
water was nearly to my shoulder
and we had to struggle to get across.
The worst part was climbing over
the last hump of the sierras that
second day. BY 4 in the after
noon there were unmistakable signs
that we were approaching the low
lands. The river widened and flowed
more slowly. We hoped that every
hill we went around or over would
be the last, but always there was
one more behind it.
1t was nearly 6 pm. when the
last guide left us at the last ford
ing place. He said, San Nicolas
Is just ahead" There were rice
fields, and some sugar cane and
fiat lands. But not San Nicolas.
When we finally came to a viii
lage, over across the rice fields, it
was Santa Maria. But it was good
enough. The calesa drivers said
they could take us to San Nicolas
three miles down the road, but no
Evening star., 1943-06-13

and wrists; whole families Of Fill
ipinos trudging drearily and steadily
along the trail. the women carrying
babies on their backs and the men
bent over with the weight of huge
packs; miners with their pith he'll
NETS, most of them carefully carry
ing their pet fighting cocks under
their arms; the fact that everybody,
everywhere, spoke some words in
English and with it the realization
that our occupation of the Philip
pines had given us obligations; with
cred 1gorot women wearing hori-
zontally striped skirts of faded
cotton. and nothing else, and their
men wearing shirts, and nothing
else; jaunty 1gorots riding sure
footed horses at a trot along that
narrow trail, one rider wearing
smart, heavy tweed jacket and
stock around his neck, and no pants;
villages of four or five grass huts
built on stills, with the dog sharing
the interior with the family and
the pigs doing underneath; Juans
haunting fear.
Those people were fleeing from
terror that had come on them out
OF the skies. We were racing for our
freedom. We rested only few min
utes at time, while We bathed and
Evening star., 1943-06-13

It is imperative that we be taken to
your headquarters to report"
One of them led us down the road
toward car which we could see
dimly quarter mile farther on.
We drove to headquarters and found
that headquarters was not there.
1t had just moved five miles to the
south. at Victoria. The driver took
us to the hospital.
II am sorry, sirs, but I cannot
leave. My duty is here and I may
be of some use"
A large, open truck drove up and
a group of patients who were not
badly wounded came out of the
hospital and climbed in. The driver
told us he was going to Victoria and
there was room for us.
The driver backed around and
headed south, following the roads
by the light of the moon which
was now shining brightly on the
Pangasinan plains. The miner sud-
denly said, so it's Christmas eve.
And instead of Saint Nicholas COM
ing to us, we've been to San Nicolas"
My own thoughts were, And this
is the night I was going to walk up
Fifth avenue in the snow"
(Copyright 1943 by Clark Lee, The
Viking PressD
Continued tomorrow)
Evening star., 1943-06-13

Information" was given by Mrs. j. r..
Fletcher of the Speakers Bureau of
the Theater Wing War Service.
Blow Webb.
The following officers were elected:
Mrs. T. A. Hayes, president; Mrs. B.
Sigmon, first vice president; Mrs.
Hogan, second vice president: Miss
Julia Taliaferro, third vice president;
Mrs. L. B. Morton, secretary; Miss
Betty Decatur, treasurer; Mrs. Ed
ward Walsh, historian.
A patrol boys party was held June
at the Blow School.
Adelaide Davis.
The association met last Wednes-
day and enjoyed Mrs. Ruedigers
letter telling them she had obtained
slide for the new playground.
The proceeds from a show given
by the children on Thursday will
be used to buy things the school
needs badly.
The mothers are donating punch
and cake for Boy Patrol party to
be given this month.
Wallach.
Plans for the patrol and gradua-
ton parties were discussed Monday
at the executive meeting.
Association officers for the coming
year are: Mrs. S. J. Hogan, presi-
dent; Mrs. Arthur Manders. first
vice president; Mrs. Alvin Carroll
second vice president; Miss Ella
Crook, third vice president; Mrs
Lorin Armiger. secretary, and Mrs.
John Carlson, treasurer.
Buchanan.
Three ambulances and two jeeps
represented by War stamps worth
S6,28775, were purchased at the
school this year. One jeep was
christened Rodney stillwell in honor
of an alumnus killed in action.
The association is contributing
half of the expense of sending three
of the patrol boys to Camp Earnest
Brown.
Langdon.
The following officers have been
elected: Mrs. A. P. Hofmann. presi-
dent; Mrs. Russell Garrett. first vice
president; Miss Louise Cliff, second
vice president; Mrs. A. M. Sower
third vice president; Mrs. C. J..
Bovine, recording secretary; Mrs.
A.. L. Smith, corresponding secre-
tary, and Mrs. ]. H. Van Saun,
treasurer.
Ketcham-Van Buren,.
Mrs. Donald Seller, the incoming
president, announces her chairmen
as follows: Mrs. Linden, student aid;
Mrs. Weber, publicity; Mrs. Schaef-
fer, program; Mrs. Mears, grade
mothers: Mrs. Wilson, ways and
means; Mrs. Moeller, membership;
Mrs. White, publications; Mrs.
Martin, summer roundup; Mrs.
Thompson, hospitality; Mrs. Bragu-
nur, study group; Mrs. Helm, safety;
Mrs. Webster, historian; Mrs.
Purcell, health; Mrs. Adams, garden.
The students, under the direction
of the associatio are rehearsing a
variety show to be presented soon.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
They Call 1t Pacific
CHAPTER Ia.
by CLARK LEE

CHAPTER IA.
The next morning I drove up to
the Pines Hotel, hoping it would
still be possible to get through down
the. south road. The streets were
full OF people, running excitedly and
down near the big park in the center
OF the city a group of young men
with knives and rifles and clubs were
gathering. Some had uniforms, but
most were in civilian clothes. I
talked to some of the men. 1--WE
tried to drive down to Manila, but
there is fighting on the road. The
lower bridges were blown up at 6
o'clock this morning.
I went back to the car and told
Juan and Carlos, "the bridges have
been destroyed We have to walk"
We drove south through the town
and up the hill and turned into
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CiN-Wide Home Yard
Contest Sponsored
ByP-TA Congress
Appeal Made to Keep
Children OFF Streets
During Vacation
By MRS. P. C. ELLETT,

f1eSldcnt, -. y. congress OF Parents
and Teachers
School will close in about 10 days
and while many older boys and girls
undoubtedly will return to summer
school many others will spend their
time in public Fairgrounds, in parks
and, unfortunately, in the streets
How we'll we have learned the les
sons of traffic safety will be reflected
in the record of traffic accidents
during the vacation months. Even
though automobile traffic has been
reduced there are still many cars,
trucks, buses and streetcars creating
a definite hazard.
The schoolboy patrols have been
making splendid contribution to
the safety education of the children,
and I venture to say that there are
few boys and girls who are not con-
scious of traffic dangers and who,
under ordinary circumstances, would
be but little trouble in the obser-
vance of the safety regulations. But
during vacation there frequently is
very little place for them to play ex-
cept in the streets. 1t will take more
taan law to stop children playing
in the streets. When boys and girls
are engaged in an exciting game of
ball, or cops and robbers, or any
other game that requires nimble
feet and quick action, they very
easily can forget the dangers of city
streets.
One sure way of preventing chill
dren from playing in the streets
is to make adequate provision for
their recreation in the back yards
of homes. Of course, many back
yards have been converted into
Victory gardens, but there are many
others which are not suitable for
gardening, but which would provide
ideal, safe play areas for young
children. The Child Traffic Safety
Courcll, in cooperation with a
number of other agencies in the
city, again is sponsoring the CITY,
wide home yard playground contest,
and entries will be received at
recreation headquarters, Sixteenth
and Lamont streets NV, until June
30. Prizes are being offered so that
In addition to providing much need
ed play space for neighborhood
youngsters, a citizen who makes the
effort to convert his home yard into
a play area may win one of them.
Not all accidents to children occur
as a result of traffic, however, and
a word may very we'll be said about
the lack of safeguards in many
communities. Inside our own homes
for example, I am sure may be
found many instances where acci-
dents might easily happen, such as
too highly polished floors with rugs
not firmly attached, a stair light
which has burned out and not vet
been replaced, things left on stairs
waiting to be carried up. These are
only a few instances of hazards in
the home.
During the vacation months, it
will be well to concentrate on the
safety of children and to put into
practice lessons learned. rather than
simply talking about what should
be done.
State News.
At the meeting of the Board of
Managers of the D. C. Congress of
Parents and Teachers last Tuesday
Mrs. Leo Raywid, summer roundup
chairman, reported 80 local con-
greSS units had held health eyan,i-