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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-28

The recently elected officers of
the Key West Woman's Club will
be installed at a meeting to be
held Monday afternoon. After the
installation, an entertainment and
a reception will be given.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-28

If you have lost all your ration points
you cannot obey the injunction to feed
cold, though you certainly can starve
fever.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-28

Everybody wants price ceilings on what
they buy and no limit on what they SELL
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-28

American place name Gump, Mimi
Key West Citizen. Is the Mimi. Gump any
relation to BIN, w. ", Andrew, Ia, o.
Chester, Pa. Fort Myers News-Press.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-28

Borrowing money today is much easier
than paying cash. but now is the time, if
there ever was time, when people should
live on a cash basis
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-28

The Young Peoples Department
of the First Methodist Church
will give supper Monday eve
ming in the Sunday School an
mex
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-28
Today's
Anniversaries

tionary soldier. a Constitution
Trainer. Virginia senator, COVER
nor secretary of state. 5th Presi-
dent horn Westmoreland Co..
i8a1
1826-Silas s Packard. pio-
neer business educator, founder
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-28

The Girls Club of La Trinidad
Church will hold a meeting at 400
o'clock Friday afternoon.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-28

Money in circulation is reported
now near $4,000, 000, 900.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-28

Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Cain,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-28

1789-Mutiny on ship 'sBoun
ty" on return voyage from Ota-
heite to England.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-28

Lionel Bsrrymu-e z En
II Lo1d0l. s. wears So
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-28

1786-Maryland the 7th State
to ratify Constitution.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-28

There is no such thing as the moderate
cigarette smoker.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-28

Harold Bzuer- famed E1Ea
pisnist. born % wears sEo-
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-31
Ration Order Is Issued

Written specifically for Alas l, a new tire rationing order,
 ,nown as Ration Order IF, has been issued by the Office of Price Administration in Wash
 ington, D. C. and will become effective in Alaska on Decem |, l5. This is according to an an nouncement made today by Mrs Helene G. Johnson, Territorial Ration Executive for the Alas a Office of Price Administration
 Order IF will supersede the Re vised Tire Rationing Regulations in effect in Alaska since Febru- ary l942, though abandoned else where in the country when gas oline rationing was instituted. The new ration order was writ ten by Gerald Barrett, Rationing Attorney for the Ninth Region
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-31

taai have run more man ] O. miles, have been removed from the ration.Bg provisions and may be exchanged without certif.- ca.es at ceiling prices as set Up in Maximum Price Regulation 107. Prospective panalasers az reminded. however. that there is a ceiling on used tirds based upon their condition when sold. after the new ration order goes in effect" Mrs. Johnson sad.
 Of special interest 10 war con tractors stationed or garaged in Alaska, remote from source of supply of tires. is the provision that they may now secure an that they may now secure an tubes equal to 10 per cent of the running wheels of the cars to be supplied. Under the old regula- tions tire users could not secure such an emergency stock.
 Provision is also made for the Territorial Director 10 authoriza replacement of stock for retail dealers whose inventories may become too low to meet the po- tental needs of the areas which they supply. The Director also may authorize the acquisition of stock for those who seek in good faith to become dealers Pre- viouslv this authorization had to be made F Washington.
 Fees for inspectors have been
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-31
Stines
 Appointed

Appointment of Norman C. Steins, Well-known consulting mining engineer, as Area repre- sentative of the War Production Board for Alaska, was announc- ed today by George K. Com stock, regional WIPE director.
 Stines is well acquainted with Alaska and its problems, having engineered several large mining project in the territory, and lived there for many years. He is at present in the Regional of flee at Seattle familiarizing him. self with WIPE procedures and regulations and expects to open a WIPE office in Juneau shortly after the first of the year.
 Distance and the difficulties of wartime transportation have worked great hardship on Alaska" Cumstock said in an nouncing 1 h appointment. "Weeks and months have been spent in processing forms that should normally take only a few days, thus causing delays that sometimes were costly"
 "With the opening of territor- ial offices under MT. Steins, we hope to save as much as three to six weeks in many cases. One big saving will be in eliminating improperly filled out forms. Ap- plications have been received by WIPE in ashington, D. C., with out signatures and without much essential information. These have had 10 be returned. The Alaska office will work out pro- cedures to assist in eliminating this"
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-31

who embodied in it all the sug- ga tons made by the Alaska of flee of Price Administration n order to meet the need of the Territory for a tire ration order tailored 10 the special circum- stances existing in Alaska.
 'sIn other words, it is Alaska's own regulat on. written to meet 'Alaska's own regulation, writ ten to meet Alaska's own condi- Alaska's own conditions. We be- liove it will meet the essential transportation needs of the Ter ritory," Mrs. Johnson said.
 The new ration order is mark ed by both brevity and simplicity and will be hailed with enthusi- iasm by local boards which have been charged with the difficult task of administering the old somewhat complicated tire regu- lations. It covers only new tires and tubes, and the list of ehgi- bility for those tires and tubes. while not changed, is more sharply defined and identified. Briefly stated, it provides that only three classes of persons may have tires and tubes-those whose work is essential to the war effort. public health. and public safety
 Used tires. defined as those
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-31
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-r4r6ased under the new regu- lations from 50 and 75 cents to SI00 and S2.O0, dependent upon the s.ze of the ear or truck. These fees are allowable only me tIre to make the inspection. Wnen t ls necessary to remoKs IaosoagA inspection of tres and tu5es is required before d board may consider an application for replacement, and this cost which $ borne by the applicant, is not incurred for the inspection but for removal services made in connection with the inspection.
 Penalties are provided in the regulation for abuse of tires, eX- ceeding established speed limits, making false or misleading state ments in order to procure certi- ficates, transferring the ration ed tires or tubes at an illegal price, bribing, hindering, or in terfering with rationing off c;als. and for several minor of lenses.
 Copies of the new 'rationing order have been supplied all War Price and Rat:onine Boards in the Territory and may be seen at board offices in the var ous communities of Alaska. A limited number of copies of the regulations ar available at board offices.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-31

The office will also review any applications made to it and change unnecessary requests sub mitted because of misunder- standings of regulations"
 Comstock explained that as the nation reached it's peak of war production, more and more attention was being given to the civilian needs by WIPE
 Besides assisting in present ing priority and production prob lerns. MT. Stines will also repor to WIPE on civilian requirement which is the first step in meet ing shortages caused by war, Comstock added.
 "He will also keep Alaskans informed on the various relaxa- tions Of war regulations. Strict priority and limitation orders were clamped down upon the civilian economy shortly after Pearl Harbor in order to con- serve critical materials and di- rect the entire resources of the country to war production. These are now being relaxed by WIPE. For example copper and critical materials are available for the r7pair of household, farm and industrial machinery without priorities. In many directions procedures are being simplified MT. Stines will see to it that Alaskans are kept abreast of these changes"
 The War Production Board has also undertaken a general program of decentralization un- der which more and more au- thority and responsibility for action Is being delegated to re gional and district offices. Alas ka will also benefit by this pro- gram, since many problems can be handled in the Seattle region al office and will not have to be forwarded all the way to Wash ington.
 "We are arranging to give Alaska matters immediate atten- ton when Mir. Stines sends them in" Comstock said.
 Stines will open the first WIPE office n the territory in Juneau shortly after the first of the year. The size of the staff to be employed will depend entirely upon the work to be done, ac- cording to Comstock.
 Stines first came to Alaska in 1900 when he joined the rush to Nome, in between high school and college He returned in 1920 for the United States Smelt- ing, Refining and Mining Com pany and opened their dredging property at Nome in 1922. From 1924 to 1927 he was in Fairbanks for the same company, and opened the large dredging opera tion there.
 In between residences in Alas ka, Stines took in most of the world. From 1909 to 1919 he was in Russia, representing some of the largest mining companies operating copper, steel, coal, zinc and lead properties. He lived in Leningrad throughout the various revolutions.
 From 1922 to 1924 he was min ing in Ontario and from 1885 to 1889 he was in South America
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-31

in Columbia, Bolivia, Peru and Equador, operating gold proper ties. He returned to the United States again in 1889 and remain ed until he joined the staff of WIPE.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-31

Subscrie for The Nugget.
Evening star., 1943-04-08

THE HUMAN COMEDY" Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer production of William
Saroyan's novel, starring Mickey Rooney,
Frank Morgan, produced and directed by
Clarence Brown from a screen play by How
ard Estabrook. At Loews Palace.
Evening star., 1943-04-08

who has always been obscured by
the irrepressible ham in his previous
roles. 1t is true also OF Frang Nor
gan as the old telegrapher, a won-
derfully comic character so close to
tragedy that it alone represents
enough suspense for the average
movie. Fay Banter as the mother,
Van johnson as the older brother,
John Craven as his soldier friend
James Craig as Homer's young boss,
Marsha Hunt as the feather Drained
society girl, these and others give
the performances of their careers.
But the actor who steals the pic
ture Is young Jack jenkins. To Sa-
royan's point that the world belongs
to the l6-year-olds, he offers stri-
dent argument that it belongs to the
very young, the flve-year- -olds with
freckles.
Evening star., 1943-04-08

graph key. Some of these are tragic
things to learn, and Homer is con-
scious of their tragedy, but they are
imperatives against the day when he
will get news of his brothers death,
his own great personal tragedy.
The others have memorable mo-
ments, though not so many of them
in The Human Comedy
Most hilariously comic are those
which belong to the freckled-face
mite, Ulysses. Ulysses, played by
young Jack jenkins, is the universal
5-year-old, the perpetual quiz mas
ter ceaselessly seeking the answers
to all the unanswerable questions,
such as Whats afraid?" What's
home?" whats everything in the
world of a 5-year-old boy?'
The romantic element of Saroyans S
picture is rather an aside, but an
inspired one which gives him a
chance to build up two other char
acters as enormously good in Saroy-
an eyes. They are a kindly young
man who affects ruggedness in not
wearing neckties and an addle-
patted rich young girl behind whose
futterings there exists sweet,
lonely and understanding heart.
The passages of the picture de-
voted to the soldier son are among
the finest and most moving of The
Human Comedy" That son would
be Marcus Macauley, the clean, up
right, home-loving young American
who is fighting a war he hates that
he will be able to return home some
day, get a job, marry, have chill
dren and have his friends in for
evenings of music. These are the
things which alone justify fighting
in Saroyans estimate, and even
those who think they far understate
the case will be enormously i'm
pressed by the barracks, troop train
and other sequences in which Mar
Gus lives his loneliness and dreams
his dream.
1t is one of the charms of the pic
Evening star., 1943-04-08

Cd UIIeSS, tIIUI lItSSIy uI dIIIdUIC, 1IO-
y worthy of the earth that is their
'ritage. The Human Comedy" is
Evening star., 1943-04-08

Browns direction and Howard
Estabrook's skilled screen writing
treatment. But these are incidental
for what it really has is the throb
of life itself as other pictures have
had that quality only in vagrant,
fugitive moments.
The Human Comedy thus be-
comes the movie of life in America,
as great as Saroyan predicted it
would be. than which there is no
greater greatness.
Saroyans picture is almost fla
erantly endowed with every element
that motion picture needs. In
meeting the basic requirement that
1t shall never stop moving, 1t covers
the whole range of life and at least
the margins of the hereafter. En-
route it encompasses virtually every
thing in nature, love, death, patriot
ism, wisdoW, suffering, JOY, growth
and a score of others of the phe-
nomena of living. These are wonder
full things. Saroyan would have you
know. things to make you laugh and
cry, vet never to doubt that it is
good to be alive. That is an amaz-
Ing amount of ground to cover in a
single story, but the more amazing
thing is that it has been done so
effortlessly and SIMPLY
When the picture slips, as it rarely
does. it is into ver-sentlmentallty
Or, in one case, into phony, disso-
nant sequence in which the author
labors the point of what great old
melting pot his America is These
are trivial defects, worthy of mention
only that the Saroyan ego might not
reach the exploding point and thus
damage him beyond the writing of
more, and equally, exciting screen
dramas.
In establishing himself as the
screens best story-teller with his
first story. Saroyan has written the
tale of an American family today.
1t is the Macauley family of Ithaca,
Calf. There is mother. a dead
father whose spirit returns regu-
larly to the family hearth. soldier
son, coed daughter, a 16-year- old
son, and prodigiouslv attractive
freckle-faced boy of five. They are
simple. middle-class people. They
Evening star., 1943-04-08
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showino

Stage.
NatiOnal-"The Student Prince
with Everett Marshall: tonight at
$50.
Screen.
Capitol-"The Young Mr.. Pitt"
Robert Donat eloquently he: II am,
las. 4::30, tbs and 10 pm. Stage
shows: los, $50, 6:35 and 9:2O pm.
Columbia -" Tennessee johnson. :"
the President who was impeached:
II am, los, 3:15, $40, 7::3O and
$40 pm.
Earle-"The Hard Way" tale of
two diverse sisters: IL am, 1:40.
4:30, 7:l5 and 10 pm. Stage shows:
l, 3:45. 6::35 and 800 pm.
Hitler's Children" vir-
Evening star., 1943-04-08

never do anything dramatic, yet
everything they do under Saroyan S
seeing eye is thunderously exciting.
What they do is what every family
is doing more or less these days. The
little boy is growing up. The older
one is learning to be soldier. The
16-year-old works as telegraph
company messenger. The daughter
is going to college. The mother is
being a mother
The incident which illustrates each
of these activities is completely SIM
pie and unpretentious and gives the
picture its peculiar enchantment. In
itself. Saroyan never fails to point
out, the thing that happens is un-
important. The people to whom it
happens are important. He proves
his thesis in almost every sequence
of the film from the first in which
the hve-year-old sits watching a
gopher. dig in the garden until the
last in which the middle son and
his friend walk into the house to
meet the family.
The most heavily accented role
in The Human Comedy'-but never
to the point of obscuring any of
the others-is that of Homer Ma
cauley, played by Mickey Rooney.
SiXteen-year-old boys are the most
important people in the world to-
day, Saroyan says in the picture.
Their elders are fighting war for
them, he adds, to leave them world
which they can make warm and
wantless and peaceful.
Homer. therefore. is the hero of
The Human Comedy" He lives
score of experiences which never
lack for drama. He runs and wins
hurdle race in high school He
discovers that his rival in calf love
is nice fellow after all. He de-
llvers a telegram to a woman, an
nouncing the death of her soldier
son, and he becomes aware of grief
in the world He meets and be-
comes the friend of Willie Grogan,
the elderly telegraph operator in
his Office. From Willie he learns
that when people drink there may
be reason for it. in Willie's case the
reason being a terror that he will
be retired after so years at a tele-
Evening star., 1943-04-08

ture that it bursts regularly into
song, fine device to illustrate the
authors point that his Macauleys
are a brave people. All of them
sing, none very we'll, but well enough
to show that theirs are hearts which
never will break no matter how
heavily burdened. In one sequence,
that on the troop train when the
soldiers burst into Leaning on the
Everlasting Arms" the singing is so
infectious that audiences are i'm
PEELED to join.
X X
Under the spell of Saroyan's writ
ing, those who play the characters
he has drawn give the performances
of their lives. That is particularly
true of Mickey Rooney, an astound-
ingly subdued performer whose
Homer Macauley reveals the actor
Evening star., 1943-04-08
tues of not being one: 11:25 am,
.CS z IN z .AA nd "A

tues OF not being one: 11:25 am,
1:25, $3.50, TAO and 9:45 pm.
Little "Ziegfeld Girl" return of
musical: II am, 1:30, 4:10, 6:55
and 9:35 pm.
Metropolitan-"Air Force" Flying
Fortress avenges Pearl Harbor: II
am, 1:35, AIS, 6:55 and 9:35 pm.
Palace - The Human Comedy"
the people speak through Saroyan:
Ills am, 1:50, 4:25, and $40 pm.
Pix-"Sunny," return of another
musical: continuous from pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts:
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1943-04-08

the long delayed
picture of the
people for the
people, by Sa-
royan, of which
every one has
been dreaming
all these years.
1t has Mickey
Rooney, an enor-
nously appeal
ing child actor
n a m e d Jack
jenkins, Frank
M or G a n and
scores of other
players. 1t has
C q Z g u c e
Evening star., 1943-04-08
Sar0yan's Human Comedy
Is Screen at Its Finest
Story of an American Family Today
Is Enormously Rich in Drama,
Made of Simplest Elements
BY JAY CARMODY.

the with which he alone
motion
Comedy chose call it. The people will it
will That
for he mirrors them the picture at the Palace they will
OF
efortlessy dramatic. :---
Evening star., 1943-04-08
Still Less Specific

"SomeWhere in Sahara" is the new
title for the Columbia drama for
merly titled Sahara" starring
Humphrey Bogart and an all male
cast
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-20
A Thought for Today
By-Passing Congress Again

Former Senator Prentiss Brown says that OPA Administrator Prentiss Brown achieved masterpiece when he provided for food subsidies to the processors to help lower price ceilings without decreasing the return to anybody. War Information Director Elmer Davis on the radio tried hard to explain why it is bette" for the consuming public to pay for part of it's food through taxes rather than in store prices. But members of Congress, ln- cluding many Democrats, got up on their hind legs and protested bitterly about the new attempt to buttress an anti imitation program that, by concession of high officialdom, had broken down so far as food prices were concerned. The congressman, in many instances, are dubious of the value of the subsidy Sys- tenn or go so far as to consider it specific ally vicious But their bitterness does not spring from that difference of opin- ion. It arises from the fact that once more the executive branch has 'legis- lated" "refrom" which Congress, after careful deliberation, refused to enact There is big question whether such subsidies have any practical value. II they do it is as another indirect method of sharing the wealth - in this instance, of making John Smith pay for part of the Brown family's food.
 In any event, Congress had been asked to provide funds to finance subsidies, and had refused. Whereupon, on the plea of emergency, using funds appropriated for other purposes, the administration began doing what Congress had refused permis- sion for it to do Once more this raises the question whether it is possible for the Republican mechanism of Demo- cratic government to function in time of emergency or whether it is necessary for us to eliminate the law-making branch, sidetrack the judiciary by work ing so fast that it cannot intervene ef- Actively, and entrust our government entirely to the White House.
 Perhaps this is what should be done There are times such, for example, as while the House was Adding futilely With a new tax bill - when the public gets awfuly fed up with procrastination, poll tics, delay. But if such departure from our system of government is to be made, it should not be done by attrition and subterfuge. We should make the change voluntarily, democratically, with our eyes open to all the consequences.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-20
End Bad Practice Now

The Guffey Coal Act came into being in 1885 on the demand of John l.. LeWlS, to prevent a coal strike. The Supreme Court held the first act unconstitutional. A revised Guffey Act was passed in l937 again under the spur of coal strike threats.
 MT. Lewis insisted on a law such as the Guffey Act which forced the mine operators to raise coal prices so that the mines could pay higher wages to labor This was an indirect way of levylng a direct tax on the public for the benefit of a specified group. The Guffey Coal Act was to have expired in April, but the House and Senate extended it for thirty days on the ground that Congress should have time to consider it's renewal
 In spite of the fact that a majority of coal operators have been virtually Sub- Sidized to the point of acquiescence m this legislation, against their better judg- ment as to it's SoundneSs as an economic principle, there is an undercurrent Tn Congress that it may be better to ellm- mate it entirely before our republic reaches that stage arrived at by Diocle tian in 300 A. D. when sons were com pelled to follow the vacations Of then fathers under penalty of death Diocle tian formulated a complex and vast Sys- tenn of price fixing, labor relations, and a scheme of government that conStricted liberty to the point of making his sub jects thoroughly miserable. It broke down.
 The New York Times points out the folly of our endeavors to fight imitation, and at the same time prOlong the life of an Act like this which not only en- courageS but compels price and wage boosting which all consumers must pay for the benefit of special class. It says in part:
 "If it were sound to set up selling monopoly for the coal industry, so that t can raise prices against the public in order to pay miners high wages, then 1t would be equally sound to turn other Tn, iustries into selling monopolieS so that hey could boost the price of their proo- lcts and pay higher wages to their workers. The Guffey Act is fragrant contradiction of the economic policy that