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Maj. r. W. Thomas Assigned
ToCommond Caribbean Base

PANAMA CANAL DEPART
MENT.-Maj. Robert w. Thomas,
former Washington attorney and
businessman, recently was assigned
as commanding officer Of an air base
IN the Caribbean area.
Prior to his assignment, which
made the 29-year- major one of
the youngest base commanding Of
flcers in the Caribbean area. he had
served in every administrative capac-
ity on the field. He also has trav-
eled extensively in Central and
South American countries while en-
gagged in legal and court-martial
work for the Air Forces.
He entered active service from the
Infantry Reserve in November, 1941,
and was assigned to the Air Forces
as lieutenant. A graduate of the
University of Maryland and George
town University Law School, he is
the son of Mrs. Gladys L. Cover, 4730
Massachusetts, avenue NV.
Evening star., 1943-11-14

captain, received
the Purple Heart
for service in the
last three major
engagements in
the World War,
h as wri t t e n
friends an inter-
esting account of
his recent expe-
riences in North
Africa.
Excerpts from
q letter dated
October 3 follow:
Il have just
returned from q
1n-dau trim by
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Cd Saves Bethesda Soldier From Rocks After Ship Bombed

Pfc. Peter Magnanelli, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Magnaneli, 46O1
Cheltenham drive, Bethesda, Md,
probably owes his life to the efforts
Evening star., 1943-11-14
Maj. Joseph {. Fehr
Writes Of Visit 10
Ancient CARTHAGE

Maj. Joseph c. Fehr, Army Air
Forces, of 1881 Twenty-eighth street
NV, former attorney in the Fed
eral Trade Commission, who, as a
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Turner in Texos

PECOS FIELD, Tex.-Second 1t.
John P. Turner, son of Mrs. Ger
trude D. Cobb, 626 Twenty-second
street NV, recently arrived here
for duty.
Evening star., 1943-11-14
Fairfax Man in Jap
Prison Camp Heard
On Recent Broadcast

Vernon Ross Long, "a, son of Mrs.
Ida Long, Fairfax, Va, who was
captured in 1941 by the japanese
when they took the Philippines,
Evening star., 1943-11-14

In 1926, Comdr. Kessler accom-
panied Admiral Richard E. Byrd on
his North Pole expedition. Two years
later he went with Admiral Byrd to
theh South Pole when Little Amer
lea" was founded. He went as a
civilian volunteer at / penny per
month. For his services In the Ant
arctic he was awarded a special gold
Congressional Medal. Upon his re-
turn, he lectured throughout the
country for two years.
He then joined the Ford Motor
Co., for whom he handled exhibi-
tions at the Chicago, San Diego and
Dallas expositions In January, 1942,
he became associated with the Office
of Price Administration, and the
following April he was commissioned
lieutenant in the Navy After a
months training at Norfolk, he was
assigned to his present position. He
was promoted to lieutenant COM
mander in January.
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Col. Cordjner Mountains
Supply Flow in Pacific

AUSTRALIA.-Col. Douglas G.
Cordiner, chief quartermaster Of the
United States Army Services of Sup
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D. {. Fighter Pilot
Builds Ace Record
In Quick Time

(The tollo,Ding Is by Serqt.
P. T. johnson OF Oakland, Culif..
a Marine Corps combat COR
reSpondent.)
NEW GEORGIA ISLANDS de-
layeO Just a few short months
ago a Washington ID. c. flying
stah sergeant with the Marine
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. SERIAL STORY
TAM MURDERER
COPYRIGHT. IoA2.
NEA SERVICE INC.

"This is very foolish OF you,
Martha"
IT am not afraid Of you. You
have murdered him. And I am go"
ing to the Settlement and tell them
So"
She started for the door, with
her daughter in her arms and the
boy walking beside her. The three
of them got to the waters edge,
and even into the canoe, before
Norman Tinker came rushing from
the house.
"Wait!" he cried. "Stopl Wait!"
In that moment the guilt and the
fear were cut deep into his face.
"Wait!"
The canoe was almost fully
water-borne, the boy giving it one
last shove, when Norman Tinker
came up to it. He lunged and
caught at the gunwhale, and
stumbled, and fell into the water
The canoe swirled out into the
stream. The boy fell, too, not far
from Norman Tinker, and wal
lowed for a moment. But he got
to his feet and yelled, I'm COM
ing, Mother. I'll be there. Go ahead.
Go. Co."
Martha Frye plunged the paddle
into the water and the swift cur
rent caught hold of the canoe, send
ing 1t down stream. The boy ran
into the woods.
Norman Tinker hesitated for a
moment. He almost started after
the boy. Then he looked at the
canoe, and looked at another canoe,
pulled up on the sandy little beach.
He rushed toward it, and fought 1t
into the water, and swung the
paddle fiercely until he too was in
midstream. The boy struck away
through the woods. y
He reached the Settlement three
days later. A few men were there,
sitting along the jetty with their
fishing lines in the water. They
told him that q canoe had come
in-one canoe. 1t was a long.
brown canoe, padded by tired
looking man who had. of all absurd
things, baby wrapped in blankets
in the bows. No. No woman at all.
The man had got hold Of the only
automobile round about, and gone
of.
Whereupon the boy. from ex-
haustion and from hunger ana
from fear, fell into delirious cries.
A woman took him In and nursed
him and listened to his muttered
raving.
She almost believed him. and said
to her dubious husband, well, tell
me what a tike like that Is doing,
wandering around the big woods,
all by himself? There must be
some reason for g."
The husband shook his head. II
he had learned one lesson In his
life. he told her. II was TO keep
hands of other folks dolngs, es.
pecially II the other folks seemed
70 be II trouble.
II never trouble trouble" ne IN
toned gravely, "till trouble troubles
me-" But then he said. "I1l tell
sheriff Raven whenever ] see him
next"
But sheriff Raven did not set
around 10 the settlement very often.
The country was q big es many Q
state. There was no telephone ~
the settlement. and no automohlle
ave the one that Norman Tinker
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had hired to take him away. Peo-
pie who had horses had work of
their own to do.
Then the man who owned the au-
tomobile came back. He came back
very drunk, because he had come
upon unexpected money. He fought
with two men, and was hurt quite
badly, so that he did not feel like
driving for a while. But he did tell
the boy, when both he and the boy
were somewhat recovered, that Nor
man Tinker had taken the baby to
Spokane, and had said something
or another about train down Cali
fornia way.
The boy started out to walk to
California.
(TO Be Continued
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CAUSE FOR VENGEANCE
CHAPTER xxi
BY MORRIS MARKEY

On the fifth day, when it seemed
likely that the next procedure
would be to move calmly down TO
the Settlement and begin certain
arrangements with the Land Of
fice, Norman Tinker had a SUCCESS
ton. He had spent many hours
of by himself, walking along the
water upstream, and now he had
this to say:
II have an idea, John, that we
had better find out what lies up
the river. We're going to have the
problem Of bringing machinery in
and maybe we can barge up the
stream. I'd like for you to take
one Of the canoes and go as far as
you can, and make some sketch
maps - you're so much better at
that sort Of thing than I am"
"But I went up there" John
Frye said. 1.-THE rapids begin about
two miles above u.s."
"They extend only little way"
said Norman Tinker. my point Is
this. See If you can get through
them-and see If there is naviga-
BILE water beyond"
Martha Frye said, "But John is
not much of hand with the Ca
noe"
"Tush," said Norman Tinker. ''Let
him take the boy along. You can
paddle, can't you, sonny?" And he
looked at the boy for perhaps the
first time in his life.
"Sllre. I'll help"
John Frye looked at his wife. II
think it will be all right, my dear"
II think it's just foolish, and
dangerous, too"
Nonsense" Norman Tinker
laughed. Get going early tomor-
row. will you, John?"
you bet I will"
And so John Eyre and his son
got the canoe into the water with
the dawn, and padded hard up
stream. They struck into the rapids.
and the exertion made John Frye
caugh furiously. The boy tried his
best. But in a little while John
Frye was exhausted. and there was
blood In his coughing. The canoe
swept against a boulder and began
to roll in the wild water, over and
over again.
In some fashion the boy made
his way to the bank. and ran along
the bank, tearing his clothes and
his face. and his hands upon the
bushes and at last staggering into
the little clearing beneath the FIR
trees.
"Daddy!" he cried. MY Daddy
Is up there In the waterl"
They got his body out. Norman
Tinker said. This is terrible. ter
Fihle, terrible. But we must
bury him here and not try 10 take
him down 10 the Settlement"
Martha Frye was too stunned with
anguish 10 protest. She helped 70
DIG the grave.
Then, early In the afternoon. life
and consciousness Of life flowed
back into her. and she walked 70
the table where Norman Tinker
waa waiting. with bowed head, Tor
Der 10 bring his food. She said;
"xou murdered him."
Tha boys eyes flew wide. and
Norman Tinker looked ~ slowly.
eKou are upset." Ne said u de-
siine % be offended because you
don't know shat you're saying"
Yea tried 70 mntder tse bqY,
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$4,000 LOST AND FOUND

Chicago -(UP)-T There is some
thing about train rides that mys-
teriously causes a temporary loss of
memory among passengers. More
than 100000 in cash and jewelry
was blithely forgotten by Pullman
riders in 1912. according to the lost
property division of the Pullman
Co. Value of the forgotten jewelry
ran into the thousands and $4,000
in cash was restored to the owners.
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FLORIDA MILK

Continued from Page One)
mitted. but I could create some
stir because many believe as I
do that the food producer should
be given every encouragement
10 go all out for victory as he has
been told.
but he can't do il unless he
gets at least an even break. This
business of cutting the already
limited profits of the man who's
laborins to produce food for
Victory. is short-sishted pol
ICY"
The Washington hearings on
the Florida milk price situation
followed lengthy Investigations
by the Atlanta oPA regional
headquarters.
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CHAS. ROBERT
CLAWSON ENLISTS
TN u. S. NAVY

John E. Collier, recruiter-in-
charge at the local Navy Recruit
ing Substitution, announces that
Charles Robert Clawson, another
seventeen-year -old Key West
youth, has enlisted in the United
States Naval Reserve.
Clawson was the fifth member
of group which signed up from
this city last week. The other
names which have already been
published are Henry Soldano,
John Atkins Steadman, William
King, and Carl Emmerson Ford,
who enlisted in the Navy Con-
structioin Regiment, popularity
known as the SEABEES. He
was sent to Camp Peary, Va, for
his training.
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INVASION

Continued from Page OneI
stroyers. have gone into Kidding
in the Adriafic. now turns out to
be true. for Ameraean a4.4 .1i..
asf. p.lrCls lll AAAe A.A~a..-AA-..--.,.
IN search OF the al...... s...~-.
have been unable to 4lllu al.1
trace Of them.
Filters in Germany have the
German command in their grip.
according TO a Swiss report which.
says that the reason why the
Germans have not started an
about offensive along the Soviei
front is because Hitler has been
steadily transferring division
after division to the western
front until their number now
reaches 100. or approximately l.
100000 men. fully equipped and
ready to meet the invaders.
The Italian high command
was reported today to still be
uncertain about where 10 con
centrate their greatest strength.
Men and guns also are in a con-
slant state of shifting from one
point TO another along Itaiy's
long coast line.
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NAVY DEPARTMENT LOOKING AHEAD
TO WJLETlDE RUSH in MAILING OF
PACKAGES TO OVERSEAS POINTS

It's a far from this tropical eli
mate to thoughts of Christmas
with Santa Claus and his reindeer
riding over snowdrifts but the
Navy Department is looking
ahead, and rightly so, to the time
when the usual rush of Yuletide
lsnailing hits the post offices.
Is In a special announcement this
week, attention was called to the
IJact that the six-week period from
September IS through October 81
has been designated as the time
during which all Christmas mail
shall be posted for Navy. Marine
Corps and Coast Guard personnel
on overseas duty.
To facilitate this effort, send
ers are requested to mark their
packages Christmas parcel" and
to pay special attention to the adj
dressing requirements. Hundreds
of packages are lost daily because
senders do not wrap them strongly
enough to withstand the handling
through numerous postal and the
heat of ships hold.
For the purposes of Christmas
mail, the term overseas" person
mel means men who receive their
mail through Fleet Post Office
at San Francisco, California, New
York, New York, or Seattle, Wash
ington. Letters and parcels should
contain the name and address of
the sender, the name, rank or rat
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THEY'D RATHER SING
THAN EAT AT U.S.O.

The regular Sunday . night
Singsong was held at the Jack
son Square USO the past week,
but with difference.
Starting at $3.50 o'clock in the
Recreation Hall with some eight
or ten service men, it soon pass
ed the fifty mark and kept going
with such gusto that when Mrs.
Alder wished to serve refresh
ments they elected to continue
singing instead. The main group
did not leave until the building
closed at 1880 o'clock.
Most of the numbers were OF
the boys own selection and they
ranged from the latest popular
tunes to folk songs and gospel
hymns. When they returned to
quarters they were hoarse but
happy.
The success of the evening
was due to a number of people
who led the singing and inter-
spersed it with solos and duets.
But the one man to whom most
thanks is due is Pvt. Ralph Boy
er of Battery D at Fort Taylor.
He is musician of outstanding
ability and his playing really
made the evening for every.
one present.
William w. Wambold of the
Sound School also proved of
great assistance as he helped
lead the singing.
Mrs. Ferguson, of the Club
Staff, who is in charge of this
special activity, hopes that this
winning combination can be as
sembled every Sunday.
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Key West is finding the posi-
bilities afforded by the nation1
wide movement for Postwar
sPlapning a matter Of intense To-
lralsinterest; and it is to be hoped
that this interest will be manifest
ed not only in the meetings of the
committee, but by communica-
tons to The Key West Citizen,
and from one group to another OF
our citizens via our justly celc-
brated grapevine telegraph.
Seldom has a subject been pre-
scented that is more worthy of our
collective and individual consid-
Grafton.
Each proposition, and there are
many worthy ones, has its ardent
champions, and each champion
who believes in his favorite prof.
Get owes 1t to himself and to his
city to secure a hearing for it.
am deeply impressed with the
importance of giving every one of
the children of Key West an OPP
portunity to become a worthy
citizen; something that too many
Of them do not have at this writ
ing.
Nothing is more certain than
the fact that though we line our
avenues with marble edifices and
exhaust our resources to make
Key West attractive, still will it be
little elye than an abode of vice
and vicious government if it is
populated by citizenry that had
developed, devoid of training in
ethics, civic pride, honor and
loyalty. AS children are born,
these attributes are latent in them,
at best They must be developed.
Eminent psychologists agree
that the infant starts life with the
predominant instincts of savage;
selfish, unreasoning and highly
individualistic.
The rapidity with which, and
the degree to which, these in
stincts are modified by an in.
creasing sense of social response
bility, of sportsmanship and of OBJ
legation to observe the rights of
others, depends to an overwhelm-
ing degree upon his environment
and to the ideals held up before
them.
No matter what we may do or
say, upon the shoulders of the
children who are today between
the ages of A and 16, rests the flu
ture OF Key West.
THE degree to which they are
inductedI into the finer principles
of citizenship, is the degree to
which Key West will attain to an
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RUSSIANS SPOOF
GERMAN DEFENSES
aRy A.seciat.a Pres.l

MOSCOW, June 29.-The lat
est issue of Crocodile, Soviet
humorous periodical spoofs the
much-vaunted German defenses
along the English Channel with
full-page colored cartoon
showing shores being defended
by one lone gun and a one-leg.
ged soldier on crutches.
Behind the gun. bunch of
reporters sit with Goebbels at a
picnic table loaded with wine
bottles. The caption reads:
ION order from Berlin, jour-
nalists of vassal countries glee-
fully describe powerful REIN
forcements.'
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! ing of addressee and the Naval
unit to which he is assigned, or
name of the ship and Fleet Post
Office through which the mail is
to be routed.
Under postal regulations, Christ
mas parcels shall not exceed five
pounds in weight, or Is inches in
length or SO inches in length and
girth combined. Not more than
one parcel will be accepted in
any one week from the same send
er for the same addressee.
All articles should be packed in
metal, wooden or solid fiberboard,
or strong doublefaced corrugated
fiberboard or strong fully telescop-
ing cardboard boxes. Fiberboard
or cardboard boxes must be Sc
curely wrapped in strong paper
and tied with Irvine.
In addition, senders are caution
ed that delays caused by the ne
cessity of censorship will be mimi
mized if the wrapping is secured
SO as to permit easy inspection of
contents.
Parcels should not include any
weapons, perishables, intoxicants,
poisons, or inflammable articles
such as matches or lighter fluid. In
general, the public is urged not
to send food or clothing. Men over
seas are amply provided with
both, so shipping space for gifts
should be used for other purposes
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:: SOCIETY ::
STEPHEN COCHRAN SINGLETON CHOSEN
TO CROWN STADIUM QUEEN JULY Is
CONTRIBUTED

The Recreation-Stadium Com
mittees feel especially fortunate
in securing Stephen Cochran
Singleton TO officiate at the
browning Of the candidate Sc
lected by popular vote to be
crowned Stadium Queen at Bay
view Park on the evening OF
July Is at 8 o'clock.
Mr.. Singleton has worked
hard lovingly and faithfully to
crown the city of Key West
with crown of glory for num-
Der of years.
With brass military bands, es-
corts in glittering naval uniforms,
music and singing, maids OF
honor and flower girls, the chos-
en- candidate will be honored by
all Key West citizens and serv-
ice people.
The Stadium Queen candidates
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ANOTHER CAMP SHOW
FOR OPERATING BASE

The Key West Naval Operat-
ing Base will play host to an
other of the USO-Camp Shows
July Is when the rollicking
revue "Just For Laughs will
be presented in two perform
ances for officers and enlisted
men and their special guests.
Two shows will be given; the
first starting at 6 and the other
at 8 p. m.
Peopled by group of young
but veteran supper club and
vaudeville stars, it is a counter
part of the well-known 'Hellza-
poppin" which broke all records
during its exceptional run on
Broadway and the road.
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REAL FILM FANS

Los ANGELES. Little Jerry
Larrimore, 8, and his sister, Ar
leen, S went to the movie theater
when it opened in the morning.
The janitor found them still there
at midnight, after they had
watched seven features, four news
reels, four cartoons. preview and
a stage show. When police car
ried them home, the first thing
Jerry wanted to know was wheth-
er or not he could 60 back the
next day.
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POST WAR PROJECTS
~ sTEpHEN COCHRAN SINGLETON. Citizen


honorable place among the cities
of the Nation.
Neglect these principles, aiioW
the boy or girl to grow up under
the influence of the gang, and
YOU will have a gang ridden city.
Your most worthy efforts to
veneer a rotten structure with a
beautiful over-lay of art will be
nullified, just as our efforts to
line our streets with beautiful
trees have been in SO many cases
thwarted by the vandals who tore
up the trees faster than we could
plant them.
Can we afford to finance the
Fairgrounds and the supervision
needed to raise the level OF our
citizenship?
The question is, Can we afford
not to do this?"
Let us look at it from a purely
financial point of view. quote
figures furnished by James T. Dam
iels, of the Jacksonville Housing
Authority:
"Slum sections are being SUBJ
sidized by taxpayers when only
two items of municipal expendi-
lures are considered. It was found
in slum areas that the annual
square mile cost for crime (police
cost, only) was $1,000; for fire,
$50, 500, total of $113,500 while
the tax collections were only $685..
800. This leaves a deficit of $751;
200 per square mile per year.
In our first project in Jackson
vile so per cent of the Negroes
came from our worst slum area
All of the remainder came from
sub-standard housing. Now, after
four years, there has not been q
single arrest made of a tenant
and we have had but one minor
fire. Likewise, while juvenile de-
linquency increased in Jackson
vile 20 per cent between 1898
and 1899, there has not been a
single case in this development
since its occupancy. There has
been healthy increase in real es-
tate values in property values in
the neighborhood."
Space forbids further quota
ton The question remains.
Can we afford to let our chill
dren, white and colored, grow up
and take the reins of government
in their hands unless we do all
that is necessary to see that those
young hands are strong and clean?
After all, it all boils down to a
basic principle. Except the Lord
build the house, they labor in
vain that build it: except the Lord
keep the city, the Waterman
waketh but in vain."
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OPENING OFFICE HERE

DR. ". T. Br0vleS % UuzdIlz-
Florida, retired dentist Ersduzse
of the University Of Tennesee.
Department Of Dentistry. has been
requested by Dr. Z c LundSfur1.
chairman Of the Procursnezt
Service. 70 ASSIST far the dursE5znn
IN relief Of cougezted condIr1ns
due 10 war Dr. Br0yles przctsced
IN Tennessee for 2 nunbe- q years
before moving % Floridz- Dr.
Broyles has agreed 20 cone 70 Key
West ana VII Dc Al assistant 70
DR.. D Cobo Of as Flening ScreeL
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CLEAN UP JAPS,
BACK TO LAUNDRY
nv As.aciatea press,

NORTH CAMP POLK, La,
June 29.--Pvt. Yemey Lew skip
ped out of Taichang, China, As
minutes ahead of the japanese
invaders in 1899.
Now he says s.the Japs got a
lot to learn from me. I like 10
get some of them and then 90
home.
Pvt. Lew made his way to
America With his father and
brother, al until March l8,
when he was indicted into the
Army, rams a laundry at Port
Washington, N. X.
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NEGRO HELD ON
ROBBERY CHARGE

Ralph Neil, negro, was ar
raigned at 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon before Justice of the
Peace Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr.,
on charge of stealing a case OF
tileboard and part of another
from the Chiefly Lumber Cor
poration, and was held in $500
bail for the criminal court.
w. Cawson, resigned agent OF
the corporation, suspected Mel
and reported his suspicion to
the police. He, Police Captain
Ray Atwell and Policeman
Adrian O'Sweeney watched the
storeroom. They caught Niel
redhanded, and he pleaded gull
ty to entering without break
ing.