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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-25
BY ROBERT N. COOL
AP Features Writer

BELFAST, Maine, June 25.-A
lot OF Down East cracker barrel
philosophers have left the cross
roads general store for war work
in the shipyards. Many of Names
offshore islands have reverted to
a state of primitive isolation.
This is the other side of the
New England war boom picture.
1t takes people from innumerable
rural hamlets to swell the popula-
ton of the industrial cities to their
present size.
Add to this emigration from the
villages the fact that summer Wis
itols this wear viii b tow, and you
see how the face Of Icw England
has been changed. IN more ways
than one, by the awar
Old RAILROAD Men
The first thing you notice as
your north bound tram ;rattIes
oversthe switch points Of Portland
his that old men seem to be running
1.-THE railroad. Veterans Of so and
20 have been called from retire
ment.
Later on, at Bath, you see where
the younger folks are. This fine
old shipbuilding community has
doubled is working population
in recent months.
Boarded-up summer homes and
cabin camps beside u. S. Highway
One, at what would normally be
the Start of the tourist season,
complete the picture of the social
upset which war has brought to
this American homeland of cul-
ture and recreation.
Build Barges
Yet in some white painted COM
munities, such as Belfast on Pc
nobscot Bay, war industry is on a
relatively small scale-the pros
pefity less hectic--and an actual
revival Of New England town life
is under way as local folks earn
and spend the money formerly
brought in by summer residents.
City Manager Cornelius Frost
said that on the waterfront $50
local artisans are building wooden
barges, as their ancestors built
wooden sailing vessels. He added
that townsfolk were also busy can
ming mussels for the government
which would have startled their
ancestors.
1--WE are restoring our city park
to its original function, as place
of recreation" Frost said, Two
years ago it was slanted for tour
lists. This summer we hope to re-
vive band concerts on Sunday af-
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CABINETS WANING WAR POWERS

machine handle the problems u
wartime mail.
Frances Perkins, as Secretary
of Labor, has lost much author
ity on labor matters since the
war started and the recent
strengthening. of the powers OF
the War Labor Board Claude
r. Wickard has seen much of
his vital powers as Secretary OF
Agriculture, in so far as they
apply TO wartime food supply
and distribution, pass 10 Food
Administrators Chester Davis.
Davis, however, is just one OF
the czars'', and some thinG
that the general food policies
like the general policies Of all
the Gears (prices, fuel, man
power, labor, transportation and
iubber)-will be made IN the
east wing of the White House
when James f. Byrnes calls his
five OWN colleagues in for con-
ferences.
On OWN, too, particularly on
Vinson and Byrnes, will fail the
job of refereeing conflicts that
arise out of the maze of over
tapping authorities in the al
ready existent war agencies.
They can't do that by delegating
important tasks to the now in
active" members of the official
cabinet That would only be
compounding confusion. 1t looks
as if the Presidents cabinet,
for the most part, is waning for
the duration.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-25

1t is reported that Colonel f. r.
Bradley, famed Palm Beach
sportsman, is betting that the war
will end before January |, 1914.
Bradley won fortune in calling
the turn on World War !, when
he collected on bets that it would
end before January |. 1919.
Much as | would like to agree
with the Colonel, I'm afraid that
if had anything to use for money
I'd be inclined to cal him on his
present offer. for if there ever was
a long shot, this looks like it.
| don't know whether John l..
Lewis has made wager with
Bradley or no. bu the way
things look at this writing. if he
has he appears to be all out to
protect his inves men.
can't even kid ms Il into be-
liaving that the European end of
The mess will be concl ded by the
end of this year. essen if we have
succeeded in mo- italy and
get a solid foothsld IN he contin-
'ent, for GERMANY knows .Ais time
that nothing but COMPLETE knock
out is going to satisfy anybody,
with oblivion all that the Nazis
can hope for, so indications are
they will fight to the last ditch
and they have a lot of bitches
left before that one is finally
reached. s. as.f M
AS for Japan, here again is a
case where it is going to take a
lot more than wishful thinking
to write the final chapter and
while we seem to be making pro-
gress, the idea that we can finish
the jopb in Europe and then clean
up Japan all in the short space of
six months just don't make even
half sense to me.
Maybe the Colonel is just try
ing to be philanthropic or some
thing. He probably figures he
might as well gamble his money
away on account of the govern
ment will get it anyhow, and
while there is no harm in that 1
hope no one takes him too serious
ly and decides that since the show
is about over we can let down.
| don't believe that the Colonel
has talked with the boys just back
from the South Pacific or Tunisia,
for from their accounts the Japs
and Germans are plenty full of
fight and while we knock 'em
down in every round. they keep
right on coming.
Personally. | hcpe t'se Colonel
is right and If I took him up and
lost I'd still feel it was "a good bet.
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WARS TWO FACES-WAY DOWN EAST

ternoons to encourage workers to
come there on their day off,"
At Belfast the war has brought
some increase in population and
a revitalized economic life, sim
liar to that of fifty years ago.
Rural Depression
But ten miles up the coast,
Stockton Springs is gripped by
the rural depression This village
of 900 persons has lost approx
mately 200 of its most active resi-
dents. Many of them have moved
to Bath or Portland. Half a hum
dred commute daily to other
towns and have little time left for
local affairs.
Service flags in the windows
show where ns-and daughters
have gone, explain mutely why
farmers are desperate for help
Three men sat listening to a
Churchill speech in La Furley's
general store. A year ago there
would have been fifteen, they told
me-.
Bespectacled w. F. Tiundy,
Town Clerk, shook his head sad
ly over Stockton Springs plight.
In the last war;" he said
twelve vessels were built in this
town At one time we had more
than $500 people but this time
we've been left behind, and gas
rationing will hit us hard from
the tourist point of view"
The others nodded agreement.
Guess I'll get back to my
hoein',' one of them said. Like
as not I'll never get it finished.
AS / left, the Town Clerk press
ed postcard into my hand. 1t
showed Stockton Springs as pro-
posed flourishing shipping port
and railway center. The card was
dated 1906"
Islands off the Maine coast are
paying similar price for victory.
Boat service has been sharply
reduced and thousands of summer
homes will not be opened this
year, ] was told. High wages
ashore and increased privations
on the islands have led to their
desertion, in many cases, by all
but the most hardy fishermen and
their families. Life has become
difficult and lonely, as it was be-
fore the tourist era.
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Mercy. Mol

Mrs. Plainsmith: ! hear yoI had
Madam Tonsilino sing at your re-
ception. She's a coloratura So
prano, is she not?
Miss Newgilt:No, she is Italian.
There is not a drop Of colored
blood in her.
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EARN EXTRA MONEY

DETROlT.-Many sulilers earn
extra pay in the Arny b. uark-
ing IN motion pictures operated iE
the War Department
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ADOPT RETIREMENT

WASHINGTON.- State legisla-
lures of Colorado and Wisconsin
have adopted statewide retire
ment systems for municipal en-
ployes.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-25
WORN IN MOURNING

NEW YORK. - Neckerchiefs
worn by enlisted Navy men were
first worn in the British navy to
mourn the death Of Admiral Mel
son.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-25
Heinz Hin, O.lt

He: There was souletlIuE
wanted Ga say 90 yuH but I f8rE8f
what II was now.
She: Was II -goud night
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FOUGHT ron TURKEY

observation-disclosures Franklin
waged a vigorous campaign to
have the turkey, rather than the
eagle, designated as the national
emblem.
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LEGALS

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
ELissGSIh JUDICIAL CIHC1lI
IN AND FOn mONHoE ooIN-
ny. FLORIDA. IN CHANcERA /.
NO. 0-4:s.
VERNON z. SPEDDEN.
Plaintiff.
VS.. DIVORCE
HENRIETTA ]. sPEDPEN.
Defendant.
TO: Henrietta j spedden,
So Burke Avenue.
Towson. Maryland.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED
to file your appearance or answer
to the Bill of Complaint in the
above styled cause on or before
August End. 1913. otherwise said
bill will be taken as confessed by
you. This order to be published in
The Key West Citizen once week
for four consecutive weeks.
DATED this 23rd day of June
A. u. 1913.
(Circuit Court SeaD
Ross c Sawyer
Clerk. Circuit Court.
Monroe County, Florida.
BY: (Sd.) Florence +. Sawyer. DC.
KENNETH Okla
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Miami Beach. Fla.
iun25:jly2-9 1898
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT or THE
ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT


ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Of THE STATE OF FLORIDA. IN
AND FOR MONROE COUNTY. IN
CHANCERY.
Case No. a-3I
ISABEL FERNANDEZ.
Plaintiff.
VS. DIV0RCE
LORENZO FERNANDEZ,
Defendant
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
To: LORENZO FERNANDEZ.
81 4th Avenue.
New York City, ". Y.
You are hereby required o appear
to the bill of complaint for divorce
filed against you in the above
STYLED cause on the first Monday in
August A. p. 1913. otherwise the
allegations of said bill will be
taken as confessed
Done and Ordered at Key West.
Florida. this 10th day Of June. A. %.
1913.
tCireuit Court Ross C Sawyer
Seai) Clerk Of the Circuit
Court
BY 6Sd-) Florence r. SAWYER.
Deputy Clerk
ENRIQUE ESQTTNALDO. JR..
Solicitor for Plaintiff
junll-ts 5siiyf2. 1913
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NOTICE OF INTENTION TO MAKE.
APPLICATION FOR FINAL
DISCHARGE


probate Law IO33l
IN THE COURT OF THE COUNTY
JUDGE. MONROE COUNTY.
STATE OF FLORIDA. IN PRO-
BATE.
In re the Estate of
HILARY l.. ALBURY, also
known as II. L. Albury.
Deceased.
To All Whom 1t May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that NJ
Floriette Albury has filed her final
report as Administrators of the
estate of Hilary Il Albury, also
known as IT. L. AIbury, deceased;
that she has filed her petition for
final discharge. and that she will
apply to the Honorable Raymond
r. Lord. County Judge of Monroe
County, Florida. on the 18th day
of July, 1913, for approval of same
and for final discharge as admin
istratrix of the estate of Hilary l..
Albury. also known as f. l., Al
bury, deceased, on this 18th day
June, 1913
NJ FLOR1ETTE ALBURY,
of the estate of
Hilary l.. Albury. also known as
H. L. .AIbury, deceased.
jun1S25 :jly2-9, 1913
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION
To; JAMES ID. SLATER, Defendant
I3o Creston Road
Stratford. Connecticut
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
to be and appear to the PLAINTIFFS
Bill of Complaint for Divorce here
IN. on or before the fifth day OF
July, 1913, at the office of the clerk of
the Circuit Court. Monroe County.
Florida. otherwise a Decree PRO
Confesso will be entered against
This Order to be published once
each week for four consecutive
weeks before said date. in The Key
West Citizen, newspaper publish
ed in Monroe County, Florida
Dated at Key West. Monroe
County. Florida. this Ord day Of
June. A. d. 1913.
(SEAL) (Sdl Ross C Sawyer
Clerk of the Circuit Court. Monroe
County. Florida.
A. C. FRANKS,
Attorney for Plaintiff
jun4- 11-1S-25 1913
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.
IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY.
FLORIDA.
In Chancery No. a-27
ADAH STAPLES SLATER.
Plaintiff.
+. ,, rs DIVORCE
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR MONROE COUN-
TY, STATE OF FLORIDA. IN
CHANCERY.
Case No. 0-4S
Iona CAMILLE HOFFMAN.
Plaintiff.
VS. DIVORCE ACTION
MARION W. HOFFMAN.
Defendant
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
TO: MARION w. HOFFMAN,
1903 Greenbrier Street.
Arlington County, Virginia
You are hereby required to APP
near to the Bill of COMPLAINT for
divorce in the above STYLED cause
son the End day of August A. n.
1913. otherwise the allegations
therein will be taken as con-
fessad.
This ordar TO be published once
week for four consecutive weeks
I'm The Kew West Citizen. news
naper published in Key West.
Florida.
Done and Ordered this 25th day
"f June. A. d. 1919,
(SEALl Ross C SAWYER
CLERK of the Circuit Court. Monroe
County. Florida
BY: (Sd) Florence E. Sawyer.
Deputy Clerk
Solicitor for the Plaintiff
jun25;ily2-9 1913
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
ELEVENTH. JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR MONROE COUN-
TY. STATE OF FLORIDA. IN
CHANCERY.
Case N0 AIS
MAY YORK,
Plaintiff,
CALVIN F. YORK,
ORDER or PIIRLICATION
TO: CALVIN f. YORK,
Residence Unknown
You are hereby required to ap-
pear to the Bill of Complaint. for di-
vorce in the above STYLED cause on
the End day of August, A. d. 1913.
otherwise the allegations therein
Will be taken as confessed.
This Order is to be published once
a week for four consecutive weeks
in The Key West Citizen, a newspa-
per published in Kew West. Florida.
Done and Ordered this 18th day
of June. A. d. 1913.
SSEAL) Ross C Sawyer
Clerk of the Circuit Court. Monroe
County. Florida.
BY: (Sd) Florence e. Sawyer,
THOMAS S. CARO-. 81 =
Solicitor for the Plaintiff.
j. jun1S- 25;jly2- 9.1943
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-19

groes ever reach the point where
they think that they or their kins-
men ought to ride in Jim Crow
Cars then the Negro in America is
lost.
A red cap or porter or waiter
need not treat colored passengers
with contempt because racial con-
tempt is written in the law. Even
within the framework Of segrega-
ton he can treat his kinsmen with
dignity and courtesy and thereby
repudiate its vicious implications.
know this from experience both
as a passenger and as a Pullman
porter. remember not many years
ago when a group of US porters
working in New England resolved
to give every colored passenger
on the Pullman cars we manned the
very utmost in service. Soon after
wards I recall I had a middle-aged
professor of a Southern school on
his way to Montreal. In the morn
ing after pushing up his berth, I
gave him without solicitation, a
nice clean fresh pillow. I then
asked him if he wished a table on
which to write. Each porter then
as he passed through the car smiled
and called out a CHEEKY "good morn
ing, sir" to him and by the time
we reached Portland, Maine, every
white passenger in the car asked
me in a respectful tone els that
Booker T. Washington" I have
watched the dining car men on
the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific in their treatment of colored
passengers. They are unfailingly
polite and pleasant and the effect
is always the same, respect on the
part of the white passengers and a
heightened sense of comfort on the
part of the colored passengers.
Finally, in singing out Atlanta
there was no attempt to stigma
tie all the Atlanta red caps. Ger
tainly those who have no such feel
ing of inferiority as that which I
encountered will not be enraged.
They will just be sorry that any
of their fellow-workers should have
so completely surrendered to the
philosophy of racial contempt.
I am intrigued by the name of
my Atlanta critic. My own paternal
grandfather came from Social
Circle, Georgia. It appears that
Ernest Edward Carter has some
characteristics of the Carriers that
I know.
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Thanksgiving

When the turkeys in the oven,
And the pies are set to COOL
And the snow has lain her blanket
Ov'r the ice upon the pool
And you hear the sleigh bells
jingle,
AS the folks come up the drive
Then you get that grand old feeling
That it's good to be alive
And as you hurry out to greet
them
Hoping no one stayed behind
You breathe a little prayer
Unto God who is so kind
For Thanksgiving would be
empty
And meaningless, should we
This day forget to thank our God,
Who blesses you and me.
Lincoln 81. Shogren.
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NO POTATOES!

When most of life seems upside down,
And things in general rate frown,
Don't fret about the way fate goes,
Feel sorry rather that you said:
Gall that steak-and no potatoes,
All this gravy-and no breadl"
Live along theory based on discomfort,
Yet never grow so SNUG you've no peeve to vent;
Life can be as sparkling as bubbles in champagne,
If you can take sorrow as you take blessing;
Ambition must have reason, it's folly to complain
Because the turkey has oysters in its dressing.
Aim high at sun, but make demands with sense,
That you may take your world without fence;
Meet Destiny halfway, step forward for your break,
What sadder plight than some forlorn tomatoes,
Who having begged or Tucked on steak,
Asks Providence, "Where are the potatoes?"
Too many wait some great modern parable,
Of loaf and fish, to and make things bearable;
In times like these Heaven sends no gift,
Save your own hard labor, industry and thrift
No special dispensations, no premiums Fate owes,
But the will and health to dig your own potatoes!
James T. Logan.
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charge of base operations, told him
what had happened and asked what
he should do with the men. Keep
them till morning, the colonel told
him, it will do them a power of
good.
The pay-of came when they were
compelled to stand trial for the Of
tense. They found themselves be-
fore a Negro judge and prosecuted
by a Negro attorney. Worse, they
were found guilty and fined, and
given a severe lecture by the judge,
who pointed out that the law was
administered without fear or favor
in Jamaica. The judges final
warning was that a second offense
would draw not fine but prison
term.
The Americans learned the hard
way, but they learned. When they
saw that they could not flout the
law and customs of the islands with
IMMUNITY they began to adjust
themselves to their environment.
Today they have made friends
among the Negro population and
mingle with them freely in public
places. They have learned too that
the removal Of discriminatory So
cial laws does not lead to indis-
eliminate marriage between white
and Negro, and they see before
them always a demonstration of
the fact that the individual still
enjoys the right under these liberal
laws to choose his friends and
therefore still has the right to de-
eide who shall visit him socially.
They are even becoming con-
siderate. The word "nigger" was
commonplace on their lips when
they first came; now they use it
less often and are careful in speech
and action to avoid giving offense.
In short, they are living democracy.
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Visitors To
Office

Visitors to the Minneapolis Of
fee of the Minneapolis Spokesman
and st. Paul Recorder newspaper
were: Messrs. Joseph B. Levy, D.
C. Allen, Stanley Gardner, Alther-
ton Hughes, Scott Tyler, S. 2 c.
Elmo Jones, J. L. Gray, Minneap-
oils; Sgt. Oscar H. Newman, Ellis
Field, ILL.,; Rev. FIR. William L.
Love, Rev. H. Reddick, W. R. Con-
way, Chas. LaBeaux;; Minneapolis;
Harry H. C. Gibson, Chicago, ILL.,;
Mines. Ninfa Bruna Bottali, Ethel
Maxwell Williams, Villa Newman,
Hazel B. Curry, Bertha Johnson,
Mayme M. Battles, Corinne Bum
and Mrs. Hugh B. Wilcox.
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Panama Canal, Americans are dis
covering that democracy in a fuller
sense than it is known here can
work. i
Uncle Sam maintained his repu-
tation as good trader when he ex-
changed fifty out-moded destroyers
for a ring of military and naval
outposts in the British islands of
the West Indies, and it has turned
out to be an even better bargain
than he imagined. He sent South
ern engineers to build the bases
that had been acquired in Jamaica,
Trinidad, Bermuda and elsewhere,
places whose preponderantly Ne
gro populations have enjoyed a
hundred years of freedom from the
discriminatory practices obtaining
in the United States.
The Southerners brought Jim
Crow with them, but soon had to
abandon it when they discovered
that neither the population nor the
courts of law were of a mind to
connive at it. Not even the millions
of almighty dollars that were being
spent in the building Of the bases
were sufficient inducement to the
islanders to sell their birthright of
freedom.
Many heads were broken before
accord was established, for the
Southerners found themselves in
situations outside their experience
and therefore bewildering. A
Southerner does not take kindly to
riding beside a Negro in a bus or
street car, eating in the same res
taurant, dancing on the same floor
at a night club or sitting beside
him in a theatre. He resented these
things, sometimes violently and al
ways to his detriment. He found
no submissiveness in the West In
dies and he got blow for blow when
he took the law into his own hands.
Although the engineers were
free to practice Jim Crow in the
base areas, since these were
United States territory, even there
they are refraining from discrimi-
nation. Early in the building of the
bases they tried to kick the native
laborers around, but when the first
Southerner who attempted it found
razor-edged machete down to the
bone in his leg it was lesson enough
for him and his countrymen.
The most talked of incident in
Jamaica is that of the Negro labor
foreman who, pressed for time
dashed into a lavatory labeled
WHITE and was met with the fist
of one of the Southsrners as he
came out. Quick as a boxer throw
ing counter punch, he knocked the
American to the ground. He went
for his coat and was on his way to
the pay office when the American
called him back. Shake, he said,
and forget it. They shook hands.
Today they are friends.
Another story concerns a police
man who was accustomed to take
his nightcap at bar near the base.
He went in as usual one night to
find the place occupied exclusively
by Americans. He called for his
drink and was promptly thrown out
for having the nerve to try to drink
with white people. Discretion in
dicated caution and, being outnum-
bered, he went to the station house
and brought four of his colleagues
back with him. The Americans
showed fight, but in the end they
found themselves lodged in Jail,
charged with disorderly conduct
and resisting arrest. The night
sergeant called the colonel in
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Notice to Readers,
Advertisers. Etc.

Since Thanksgiving Day falls
on Thursday, our regular press
day, all material intended for
our Nov. rs edition must reach
our office not later than 6 p. m.
Tuesday, Nov. %, for insertion
in that issue.
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Happy Birthday!

Birthday greetings to Senator
Ralph Mayhood, 1900 Park Ave-,
whose birthdate is Nov. %; Mines.
Sarah Vaughn, 3720 4th Ave. &c.;
Mabel Bell, 1929 Clinton, Minneap-
oils, and Mrs. Jean Waters, 1872 N.
Avon, st. Paul, all three birthdays
are on Nov. 26, and Edward L.
Boyd, 1888 18th Ave. &c., and Will
liam H. Walker, 1914 4th Ave. &c.,
both birthdays on Nov. 20, and Cor
don Parks, last known address 100
W. 35th St., YMCA, New York.
Rev. FIR. William L. Love, st.
Leonard's Church, 10th and Gin
ton, Minneapolis, Nov. 81.