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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-02

Key West is laid out on the bias
Though gradually by the grace
of the trial and error method and
Chamber of Commerce map, I'm
getting so l can eventually at least
get back to my hotel, l still cannot
steer myself by the sun, or remem-
Der the directions s. Living at
La Concha is rather like living at
Forty fourth and Broadway =. It's
most convenient Across the
street lies quite adequate ten
cent store, an excellent drugstore,
especially handy as the hotel serves
no breakfast. Diagonally across in
the other direction lies the ST.
Paul's Episcopal Church, founded
in 1882, quite large, with lovely
stained glass windows, a most i'm
posing high service, and delight
full rector, Father Dimmick -. A
few blocks down towards the Gulf
lDuval Street is advertised as. the
longest street in the world, extend
ing from the Atlantic to the Gulf
of Mexico) one finds an interest
ing old house, now the USO head
quarters, which served for the ex-
teriors in the film Reap the Wild
Wind" with its widows walk" on
top where women were said to
watch for the return of their sea-
faring men, or the menfolk looked
for wrecks back in the salvaging
days of the mid 1905 =. Houses
in Key West are undoubtedly
weatherworn, but even the little
novels in the main have certain
grace and architectural dignity,
the Bahaman influence -. In the
moonlight, especially from La
Concha's top, the rooftops glisten,
painted white or with aluminium
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-02

Z,
ination is a veritable Old Man of
the Sea :. You simply can't 60
off on a vacation like any other
normal being If you're secre-
tary you don't go around taking
down everything you hear in
shorthand, or teacher, you don't
feel the urge to gather up all the
children you meet and start class
s. But turn a newspaper reporter
loose in strange town and every
thing appears in the guise of copy
E. That's my trouble :. Whether
it's baby in arms with its tiny
ears pierced for shiny earrings :. :.
or group of rag-tag looking
Conch youngsters squatting along
the sidewalk on Saturday eve
ming, welding their gourd instru-
ments (what is the technical Gu
ban word?) in an imitation of a
rhumba restaurant or the lit
tie pickanninies, busy with their
shoe-shine kits in the bars along
Duval Street, with sailors as their
best customers =. or tiny five
foot sailor, his shiny white ducks
fitting him like the casing of
sausage, his dark Latin face puck
cred with sullen intentness, exc
cutting the best professional
rliumba I've yet encountered in
La Coneha's bar last Saturday
night ;. Key West has that indie
seribable quality of color that be-
longs to New Orleans and Charles
ten 1t is a charm compounded
OF history and atmosphere and the
tropics !. charm that is far
more apparent when one fingers a
while and has time to browse rath-
er than when one dashes in for
brief tourist-y glimpse
don't mean that I'd like to live
here :. or that / can even un-
derstand the innate love and 10y
atty of the native Key Wester, a
feeling that few newcomers cher
ish :. can understand how many.
whose work has kept them here
for months on end get restless and
feel they're trapped within this
i'm of sapphire and turquoise wa
tiers But for anyone with imag-
ination and curiosity and sense
Of adventure, KY West offers end
less possibilities for weeks of lei
sure and relaxation and entertain
ment I feel profoundly sorry
for such persons as girl / ran in
to this morning while poking
around in the Old Island Trading
Post at the foot of Duval Street
-. A short time before we'd
perched side by side on stools at
the drugstore across from La
Concha while slipping out morning
coffee, so we spoke -. Just Will
ing away the time till the movie
opens, she explained 4. It was
then about ten-thirty -. The mo-
vie opened at three thirty T. /.
When | finally ended my chat with
the interesting woman in charge,
finished my modest shopping,
left her sitting disconsolately in
front {. Maybe it was selfish. but
somehow felt she wouldn't enjoy
the kind of ambling walk I was
setting out on :. And after seeing
the things she admired in the
shop, / was also sure | wouldn't
find her company congenial -.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-02
SLIGHTLY OFF THE RECORD
With EMILE KEYES
from The Palm Beach Post. Times)

articles :. so do some visitors :.
the Chamber of Commerce Set
in the midst of surging wartime
activities the paper finds Gas don't
We ALP that many of the best
stories can't be told because of
military and naval exigencies =.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-02

Call it a busman's holiday, but
when / accidentally passed the of
flee of The Key West Citizen, I
turned in as instinctively as an old
fire-horse The editor and one
reporter were out on their mid
morning duties, but very nice
man in the business office showed
me around He was an old Lex
Ington man, asked about Harry
Giovannoli, was sorry to hear of
his recent death Despite short
age of help, he explained, The
Citizen gets many a helping hand
from its friends -. a former re-
porter now in the Navy sends in
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-02

fishing is considerably curtailed
by the war -. As for the weather
I'd better knock on wood
at the moment, a good stiff breeze
is sweeping through my room and
| have to anchor my papers
Key Westers take great pride in
their equable climate The Citi-
zen announces an average IA de-
gree variation both summer and
winter, with absolutely no frost
From my mail bag: Ted Pratt
writes from Hollywood, Calf:
l showed your review of Mr..
Wrinkle Goes to War to Harold
Lloyd, who will be the producer
of the picture version and lust DOS
sibly the star I have found the
work intensely interesting and not
at all what the popular idea of it
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-02

stories can't be told because of
military and naval exigencies =.
Nowhere in this country have /
been so conscious of being in an
armed camp as in Key West 5. :.
This little city that played an i'm
portant part in the Civil War (did
you know it was the only South
ern city to remain in the hands of
the Union throughout the war,
though majority of the citizens
were Southern sympathizers?) the
Spanish-American War, and World
War |, is of far greater magnitude
in the plan for national defense in
World War II -. As / don't know
what can be reported and what
can't, I'd better leave it unsaid,
though everything I've seen could
be viewed by any interested WISH
tor -. but it all makes one def
initely more conscious than
in city where the only things to
remind US of war are the presence
of khaki clad figures on the streets
and planes overhead Ships
come and go :. have seen a GER
tain attractive Palm Beach Naval
officer several times while his ship
1--we learned one must always say
ship, never boat was in harbor
but for obvious reasons he must
be nameless :. Most of the pretty
young typically American girls
one sees are Navy wives -. Had
dinner the other evening at the
Casa Marina, and it was sight to
see,s virtually only young and
handsome couples Only Naval
officers and their families can live
there now -.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-02

relics of the day when every drop
of rainwater had to be boarded =.
The pipelines from the mainland,
bringing in water for drinking and
bathing constitute to my mind the
greatest advance the city has yet
made for the comfort and health
of its citizens and visitors -.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-02

Wittig and Lombard; Starr and
Lakeman.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-02
BUGS DEFEAT
BOSTON BRAVES
pHLLIEs TRIUMPH OVER
CHICAGO CUBS: SCORE
SEVEN TO TWO

NEW YORK, June 1.-THE Pitts
burgh Pirates defeated the Bos-
ton Braves, to 4, in a 14-inning
game. Vince DiMaggio smashed
out his sixth homer of the year in
the second to account for three
Buc runs.
The Phillies downed the Chi
cago Cubs, while the st. Louis
Cardinals defeated the Brooklyn
Dodgers.
The results of the games follow:
National I.aanufa
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Inquest Slated Today
In Pennsy Wreck
F ata| 10 -Four
BY the Associated Press.


COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. l5.-
Coroner E. E. Smith planned an in
quest today into the death of four
persons killed in a crossing crash
between the Pennsylvania Railroad s
west-bound st. Louisan and a war.
workers automobile.
The trains locomotive, a mail car
express car and five of its nine pas
senger coaches were derailed as the
automobile crumpled beneath the
engine early Sunday.
The dead:
G. l.. Wollard Of Steubenville. the
st. Louisan's engineer, and Mrs
Sylvia Weber, 81; Mrs. Wilma Down.
ing, 81, and Mrs. lola Choulat. 81, all
employed at the nearby Curtiss-
Wright airplane plant.
Christian w. Abbott, At. of Car
negie. Pa, the trains fireman, was
injured critically. He was scalded
about the face and suffered COM
pound fractures of the right leg and
foot.
Less seriously hurt were Pvt. Elbert
Hancock of Columbus, arm lacera-
tions; Floyd Minor, 80, of Louisville
abrasions, and Joe Anderson, 16, of
Indianapolis, abrasions.
The coroner said he would oues-
ton Crossing Watchman Eugene
Demmons, who said he waved lighted
lanterns as the automobile ap-
preached.
None Of the st. Louisan's cars
overturned. There were about 500
passengers aboard the train. The
locomotive swept the automobile
nearly 1000 feet before it left the
tracks and spun around on its side
Evening star., 1943-11-15

range. Ano"as H. hehry.
weighing 81 tons and mounting
an 88-mm. gun, the Tiger should be
a tough customer. But, say the I'd
Armored officers, look what hap
pened to three of them that bumped
up against a 30-ton medium tank
of their own division. This tank
was commanded by 1t. Keith e.
Beichley and was leading q de-
tachment of tanks down a Sicilian
road when they were Jumped" by
Folke-Wulf fighter bombers.
Take Cover in Woods.
The narrowness of the road forced
the tanks to scoot for cover in a
nearby woods. The planes bombed
and strafed the woods without doing
much damage and then flew away.
1t. Beichley's tank started back to
the road. German antitank guns
spotted 1t and opened fire. The
tank ducked behind small hill and
laid down a smoke screen. AS it
moved out under cover Of the smoke
Nazi gunners scored a hit on its
heavily armored front, knocking of
the periscope sight.
1--WE were too busy trying to pick
our way out Of the smoke to pay
much attention to the explosion"
said Corpl. Michael Dishon, Carteret,
N. j., the driver" We got behind
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Elmer |. Gibbons Dies;
Retired Police Officer

Elmer L. Gibbons, ST, retired
Metropolitan policeman who had
served on the force for 81 years,
died Of heart attack Saturday at
his residence, 1905 D street Sc.
Requiem mass will be sung at
10 am. tomorrow at the Holy Com
forter Church with burial in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
Before his retirement in February.
1912, Mr.. Gibbons was assigned to
the harbor precinct where he served
for 10 years. He was the brother
OF the late Sergt. Marvin Gibbons
of the White House police force.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Margaret A. Gibbons: two
daughters, Mrs. Margaret A. Bren-
nan, Mrs. Thelma Rabbit; three
sons, Corpl. Ralph B., with the
Army overseas; Elmer L., jr., and
Alfred j. Gibbons.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Fly Tells La Guardia
COP Leader Deserves
Municipal Air Time
BY the Associated Press.

bS the ASsOClhleQ PreSs.
NEW, YORK, Nov. 15.-Mayor r
H La 'Gpardia made public yester-
day the contents of a letter from
James L. Fly, chairman of the Fed
eral Communications Commission
holding the Mayors recent analysis
of the New York State election was
"a report from the Mayor to the
people" but advising that the public
was entitled to a balanced discus
sion.
AS he read the letter during his
weekly talk over city radio station
WNYC, the Mayor invited Thomas
j. Curran, New York County Re-
publican chairman, "If he so de-
sires," to reply over the station next
Sunday to the Mayors interpreta-
tion of the election.
Mayor La Guardia had given Mr.
F'ly's letter, unopened, to an Asso-
clated Press reporter Saturday, and
asked him to produce it only after
the Mayor had gone on the air. The
letter held that although most OF
the speech can be deemed report
from the Mayor to the people OF
New York on a n-controversial
matter" 1t might have some long
range effect.
Mr.. Fly wrote that the language
used by Mayor La Guardia last
week in blaming the election OF
Thomas A. Aurelio, repudiated Dem
ocratic and Republican candidate
for Supreme Court justice, on the
Republicans, was somewhat accus-
atory."
In his talk last week the mayor
had said Justice Aurelio was elected
because of what he called failure of
the opposition to concentrate on one
candidate.
"The question of fact is serious -
Mr.. Fly wrote, adding that the public
was entitled to hear the other side
OF the question and suggesting use
OF the same amount of time-about
10 minutes-for Mr.. Curran. He had
suggested that Mr.. Curran's reply
be given yesterday, but the mayor
offered the county Republican chair
man the time for next week.
Mr.. Curran said last night he
would accept the mayors invitation
to appear on his program November
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Mrs. John Ringing North
To Seek Florida Divorce
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-Mrs. John
Ringing North, the former Ger
maine Aussey, French film actress
said today she would seek a Florida
divorce from her husband, member
OF the Ringing circus family, charg-
ing extreme mental cruelty.
Mrs. North, SO, said a formal sepa-
ration agreement has been signed
She said she has been living apart
from her husband for 10 weeks.
She charged that she had no home
life, her husband being fond OF
staying out late at night. The
former actress also said it was tire
some travelling with the circus
which Mr.. North formerly headed.
Mr.. North acknowledged the sign
Ing OF a separation agreement, but
said he did not know of any divorce
plans. The couple was married In
Philadelphia May II, 1910.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Hockey Field Dedicated
At Dunburton COLLEGE,

Dunbarton Colleges new hockey
field, called Founders Field In
honor Of Mother M. Rose Elizabeth
founder and former president .:oi
the college. was dedicated this
morning.
The playing ground was blessed
by the Rev. Clement Kearney, O.P.
professor OF philosophy at the COL
lege, and the principal address was
delivered by Annette Broussard of
Beaumont, Tex, president of the
Women's Athletic Association.
The field is the last project in
augurated at the college by Mother
Elizabeth before her election as
superior general of the Sisters of
the Holy Cross. who direct the
school.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
US0 Concert 10 Feature
Gilbert and Sullivan Sonos

Members Of the Estelle Went.
worth Opera Co. will present q Sc.
lection Of Gilbert and Sullivan songs
to United Nations servicemen anc
women at 9 pm. Saturday at the
Salvation Army USO Club, Eight
street and Market place NV.
Miss Wentworth, former soprano
with grand opera companies of this
country and Europe, will direct the
program and accompany the per.
formers. Scenes from H. M. s
Pinafore" and Pirates Of Penzance'
will be featured. A group of Cav
90s songs will also be included in
the program.
Irving Bucklin, master of cere-
monies for the club, Will make the
lntroductions. An informal social
hour with refreshments and COM
munity singing will follow the pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Big German Offensive
|0n DaImafian Coast
Reported by Pahisans
Py the Associated Press

ES tue AsSOClAVcQ HreSS.
LONDON, Nov. 15.-Yugoslay
Partisan headquarters an
nounced today in a broadcast
communique that German troop.
have launched a large-scale Of
fensive in several directions or
the Dalmatian coast in an at
tempt to occupy beaches anc
islands in the Adriatic Sea.
At the same time, the Nazi forces
were said to be carrying on a coun-
teroffensive with some small sue
cess" on the Peljesac Peninsula situ-
ated between Split and Dubrovnik.
The announcement of the new
German offensive on the Dalmatian
coast followed a Berlin report yes
terday that Nazi troops had occupied
the Adriatic islands of Cherso
Veglia (Krk) and Lussino which
guard the Fiume naval base.
Ohensives In Prevince4
The communique from the head
quarters Of Gen. Josip Broz (Tito)
said that units of his National Army
OF Liberation were continuing ofYen-
sive operations in the Croat prov.
inces of Slayonia Sryem (southeast)
and Slavonta zagorye .fnDrtheast).
and In Serbia, Macedonia and
Bosnia.
The bulletin reported heavy de-
fensive fighting in Slovenia with the
enemy suffering sharp losses. An
Italian detachment fought beside
Yugoslav units in several battles on
the Bosnia-Serb border.
The Partisans yesterday an
nounced their heaviest blow in
weeks at German Balkan commune
cations - capture of the two rail
centers of Koprivnica and Virovitica
on the Hungarian frontier.
Reported Battling Chetniks.
Today's communique again re-
ported Gen. Tito's forces battling
Germans and Chetniks in Herce-
govina and Eastern Bosnia. The
communique asserted the Chetniks
were part Of the forces of Gen.
Draja Mihailovich, War Minister of
the Yugcslav government in exile
The fighting was described as sue
cessful.
In a belated summary Of opera
tions between October 19 and Oc-
tober 81. the bulletin said that units
OF the 10th Hercegovenian Brigade
had killed or wounded 1,460 Of the
enemy and captured 466 rifles. five
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Bond Advertising Bill
Nears Senate Approval
Despite Opposition
By the Associated Press.

The Senate set machinery In mo.
ton today for expected approval of
Legislation to make from $25, 900 900
to $30,000,000 year available for
paid newspaper advertising on War
bond sales.
Despite Treasury opposition, id.
ministration Heutenants said SUD.
|pofters appeared to have sufficient
strength to force passage OF the
measure in some form this week and
send 1t to the House, where its fate
Is more doubtful.
However, an amendment by Sen.
ator Ball, Republican, of Minnesota
to halve the fund and confine ad.
vertising expenditures to newspapers
IN towns Of less than 10000 popula.
ton appeared to be gaining strength.
particularly among SENATOR who
feel that the bill would involve a
virtual subsidy, which might i'm.
plnge on the freedom of the press.
AS the measure now stands. half
OF the proposed fund would be spent
IN larger cities and the rest in
smaller towns.
Senator Reed, Republican, of
Kansas, himself the publisher Of a
newspaper IN Parsons, Kans, a city
OF 1880, said he personally favored
making paid advertising available to
the smaller papers but doubted that
such move is necessary for larger
papers.
Senator Bankhead, Democrat. Of
Alabama, the bills author, contended
that an integrated bond advertising
campaign, paid for by the Govern.
ment, would reach into rural sec.
tions and small towns not covered
now by voluntary donations Of ad.
vertising space and would increase
bonds sales to individuals.
He said "a per cent Of 2704 news.
papers canvassed had advocated that
the Government pay for bond ad-
vertising and 81 per cent had denied
that such advertising would con.
stitute subsidy or that 1t would In
f1uence their editorial policies.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
.Cunodiun to Address
Personnel Unit Tonioht

Miss Carol Riegelman of the en-
ployment and migration section, In
ternational Labor ONCE, Montreal
will speak on "Employe-Employer
Cooperation" at a dinner meeting
Of the Society for Personnel Admin
istration at $50 o'clock tonight at
Barker Hall, YWCA, Seventeenth
and K streets NV.
Miss Rigelman recently returned
from study of labor conditions in
ENGLAND.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Tiger Tanks Claws Clipped
~. S. Unit Reports After Battle

another hill and the lieutenant
jumped out to look for good spot.
We found one on the reverse slope
Of another hill and moved up there
I looked down into the valley. Be-
low US, coming across bridge, was
a line Of four or five German Tigers
and lot Of soft vehicles behind
them. 1t was sure beautiful tar
get"
The gunner, Corpl. James D.
Graham Of Valley Mills, Tex, lined
up his sights on the lead tank and
fired. The huge Tiger shuddered,
stopped and burst into flames. Again
Corpl. Graham leveled his 75-mm
gun. The second Tiger careened
wildly as a shell hit track. None
Of the crew got out when it ceased
to move. Once again the American
crew went into action and the third
Tiger quit moving, shell through
its engine compartment
Il didn't see single Jerry escape
from any Of those tanks" said Corpl
Luther Burdick, the assistant driver
Of Port Chester, N. Y, ''but that
wasn't the worst Of it. Another
tank crew got panicly and backed
into q personnel carrier just as one
OF our shells hit 1t. The tank knocked
what was left Of the carrier over
and then tipped over itself, squarely
on top Of the ferries who had been
riding in the carrier"
Another shot landed squarely In
the middle Of an ammunition carrier
further back. This truck was carry
ing red, blue, green and white signal
rockets and a lot of ammunition
The explosion that followed sure
made up for any Fourth Of July we
missed by being overseas" says
1t. Beichley.
The badly scared remnants OF the
German column turned tail and fled
back down the road, right into other
American tanks which finished them
OF In short order.
Second Armored officers cite this
incident as an outstanding proof of
the essential weakness Of the mon
sters out OF their own experience
The same is being demonstrated now
by reports from all the fronts, they
say.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Law 10 Permit Reply
Ito SANDER on Radio
Sought by Wheeler
By the Associated Prexs.

Predicting that the Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee
will write a general charter fol
broadcasting, Chairman Wheeler
said today he would seek inclu-
sion of a requirement that per-
sons "slandered" by radio COM
mentatorS be afforded an op-
portunity to answer on subse-
quent programs.
Senator Wheeler said he had no
doubt the committee would incor-
porate into the proposed measure
many Of the regulations already put
into effect by the Federal Communi-
cations Commission, and add some
new wrinkles of its own.
Il feel that we should write into
the law a provision which would
stipulate that If any commentator
ISLANDERS a person, then that person
should have the right to answer his
charges on the same hour and the
same program" Senator Wheeler
said.
He contended that while slander
may be made the basis of a suit,
damage often is done that cannot be
offset unless the same listeners are
reached with the answer-a circum-
stance he said seldom occurs now.
AS he gauges the temper Of the
committee, Senator Wheeler said he
believes 1t is ready to recommend
Legislation that will give detailed
guidance to the FEC in its future
regulation Of the industry. He pre-
dicted these rules would permit sta
tions on one chain to take programs
from another broadcasting organiza-
ton and in general would relieve in
dividual stations from domination
by the chains"
The committee, which expects to
get to work on the legislation in
about two weeks, will hear chain
officials this week in rebuttal to
charges made by FEC Chairman
James L. Fly. Mr.. Fly told the COM
mittee last week that network Off.
cials were trying to scare Con-
gress" with the contention that the
FEC could control the contents OF
programs under a Supreme Court
decision upholding FEC rulings,
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Purse Snotchers Escape,
|Cor Thieves Captured

BY tne Assoclated Press.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis.-Police were
chasing two youths suspected o1
purse snatching.
The officers fired several shots into
the ground to halt the pair. A truck
pulled over to the Grub and three
youths jumped from the cab, their
arms appraised. ct.
You were shooting at us, weren't
you," asked one of the youths. 'We
just stole this truck"
The purse snatchers escaped.