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REDS CRAWL FROM UNDER THE BED

Announcement from Moscow that the
Comitern Internationale has been dissolved
will ease the fears of world citizens who
have been seeing communists under the bed
since the early days of the Russian revolu-
ton
Naturally, we do not approve the pro-
lection of one government into the internal
affairs of another but this is not possible ex-
cept where the people of the government
affected are dissatisfied and ripe for revolu-
ton
We have never been willing to admit
that the government of the United States
was so undemocratic as to make possible
spectacular and dangerous inroads by for
eign propagandists. Only nation, careless
as to-the welfare of the people, invites out
side interference.
The tickle faith of some Americans,
who have been convinced that their democ-
racy would become the victim of half-baked
radicals in this country, was reflection up
on their Americanism.
The most that can be said of any in
ternational propaganda is that it possesses
& nuisance value but no danger, unless the
government involved has ceased to repre-
sent its people and becomes utterly incom-
petent-to promote the general welfare.
when government falls into this
classification the cause of its disease is its
own rottenness, not the foreign propaganda
that~an exploited people accept in ignor-
ance and disgust.
So-far as true Americanism is concern
ed IL should invite competition from all
sources We have no idea that any other
system of government is equal to that in
this nation, which is founded upon great
and fmperishable principles of justice to the
individual and opportunity to develop upon
the basis of merit
Only when the United States drifts
from its mornings, permitting its govern
ment to become the representative of a
class rather than the champion of the peo-
ple,. it be worth while to worry about
foreign propaganda, whether it stems from
comitern or another foreign agency.
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HARD TO UNDERSTAND

Every war restriction means there will
be renewed complaints on the part of some
persons on the home front who know more
about the situation than anybody else.
The complaints will be based upon the
supposition that the bureaucrats" in
Washington are bestirring themselves to dis
cover new methods with which to harass the
people of the country.
1t is hard to understand why anyone
believes that officials anxiously go out of
their way to stir up wave of complaints.
If restrictions are useless and unnecessary,
it is reasonable to believe that they would
be avoided
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corn she was opening into her
hand. ae
She gave ae little exclamation
OF pain. De. pa,
Whats the matter now?" he
demanded. exasperated.
Il cut my hand" she told him
apologetically. Nothing serious.
But I'll have to get some gauze
and adhesive tape to bandage it
with. It won't take a minute"
HELL" he said. "All right, but
make it snappy."
DENNY opened her kit hur-
riedly. got out the things
necessary to bind her self-in-
f1icted injury and, along with
them, the little box she'd come
across this afternoon while fixing
her hurt knee. The latter she
slipped surreptitiously into her
breecheS' pocket praying that In
the increasing dimness Bert
Stringer would wouldn't notice.
Then having taken care of her
hand, she came back
Under his increasingly abusive
urging and the stress of her own
increased tension. she had the
meal prepared in no time.
Well" he said, Modified after
few bites, you can get hustle
on you when you've mind to.
can't your"
Golfer" asked Penny. She
hoped her voice didn't sound as
queer to him as it did to her.
Mouth stuffed, he nodded. With
hands she couldn't keep from
shaking, she gave him the steam
ing black liquid.
Emptying it, he smaeked his
lips and passed the cup back to
be refilled.
Nothing like. good coffee to
set a man up" he said. his good
humor returning.
No." swallowed Penny. But
ut don't you ever have trouble
it'll coffee keeping you awaken"
He grinned. what if do?" He
tied a place beside him. "Come
over here, sweetheart"
ibid rather get everything
cleaned up and put away
t." she said coyly. ct won't
more than half an hour"
n half an hour, Bert Stringer
s so sound asleep he didn't
ar Penny rummaging in his
own dunnage bag for the Alcan
inns. The sleeping tablets had
worked wonderfully.
To be continued
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chapter 21

Chapter 81
TT was a long day. Bert Stringer
1 was driven by impotence to
reach the Peace River and the
canoe he had cached there. From
the halfbreed's shack, Penny
learned, it was only ten miles by
this route. The river took a bend
which shortened the distance.
We'll make camp on the shore
tonight" her captor said, sand
paddle on to Fort St John in the
morning"
He kept Penny going relent-
lessly. Weary as she was, she
dared not risk the consequences
of irritating him by outright re-
bellion.
BY this trail, she estimated,
they would probably come out
about ten or fifteen miles down
river from where she'd left Cleve.
Penny's heart plummeted. How
long would he wait at the Indian
encampment before beginning to
suspect something was wrong?
Several days, probably.
But now, at least, she had a
plan. She had hope. She was both
eager and reluctant to reach the
trails end. IF she should fail-if
Bert Stringer should somehow
find out-what then? Warm as
she was with the exertion of the
strenuous hiking overland, Penny
couldn't suppress an icy shiver.
Stringer would never forgive her
for trying to fool him. He'd be re-
Ientless. After all. she reminded
herself fearfully, he was basically
a criminal of the worst sort. She
could hold him at arms length
only by keeping him guessing, by
fattering his ego.
Buff she should succeed
Penny's heart beat with warm
excitement at the thought. She
would be free The precious films
Bill had riSked his life for would
be in her possession. She could,
surely, manage to find her way
safely back to Cleve. To succeed
would be worth every ounce OF
painstaking effort, every bit of
acting skill on her part, loath as
she was to have to do it.
TT was nearly ten o'clock, ac-
L cording to Penny's watch, when
they emerged from the thinning
pines and saw ahead the pale
glimmer of the river. Soon the
sub-arctic dusk would settle for
a few hours over the north coun-
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HIGHWAY . aEz
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try, while the sun dipped briefly
below the horizons rim.
Bert Stringer flung down his
pack, including the brown dun
mage bag.
He said, aPm dog-tired. I'll be
glad to get out of this damned
country"
Penny dropped her bed-roll.
put down her first aid kit.
why did you ever come up
here in the first placer" she asked
curiously.
He was in no mood for con-
fidences. II had my reasons" he
said shortly.
Maybe you were failing Bill, !"
suggested Penny indifferently. as
if it really didn't matter to her.
He snorted. "Maybe-maybe
not.
Penny decided to drop her
questioning, before he became too
annoyed. He was snappiSh as an
animal who wants only to rest
and be let alone. At the mo-
ment, body-comfort was para
mount with him. Getting out
camp equipment and supplies for
their late supper, he ratified the
pans and containers savagely.
Let me help" she said sweet
ly, although every nerve and
muscle of her body protested
against it.
Sure" he said, "why not?
Lets see what you're good for.
besides looking pretty"
DENNY stifed her indignation,
went doggedly to work. If only
she weren't so worn out. This
keeping up, this eternal huniliat-
ing pretending was wearing on
her physically and mentally. And
now, more than any time in her
life before, she needed to be alert.
Her movements, when the time
came. must be deft and sure
Observation-Disclosures everything
would be lost. -.
Penny felt suddenly the Who'll
burden of the responsibility whic
had fallen upon her shoulder
Not only for herself, but for Bi
for Powell, for Cleve. she mu
succeed. Yes, and for many mo-
perhaps, whom she had new
seen and never would. For h
country and for the whole wor
Get a move on" grow
Stringer, as her hands slowed
der the overpowering weight
this thought.
Gritting her teeth. Penny push
ed the Jagged end of the tin of
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THE FLUSHED RABBIT


mitted to reside in it, or, if it is rented, some
body else handles the money and does not
permit you to decide in what condition the
house is to be kept, or, assuming conditions
are normal, for what amount the house will
be rented.
Or you buy business. and sign con-
tract that prohibits you from having any
thing to do with the operation of the bust
ness, or, in the case of the house, if you buy
if and occupy it, you must pay rent.
They are some of the things that would
have occurred, in applied cases, to the city s
purchasing of the Key West Electric Com
pany. The city would be brushed out of the
picture completely, and an engineer,
somewhere in Chicago" would be answer
able to nobody in the way he conducted the
company Besides, though the city provided
the revenue bonds with which the company
would be acquired, the city would be COM
PEELED to pay for whatever electricity it
used.
AS The Citizen has remarked before,
it did not see the contract, because no eff
fort was made to publish it, but as soon as
it had been read by Representative Bernie
C. Papy, who was in Tallahassee at the
time, he characterized it as raw and rot
ten DEAL He showed the contract to some
of the best lawyers in the state, and they
said, in effect, that, were such an instru-
ment legalzed, the city would lose its birth
right
Aside from those Objectionable clauses
= o4o% Dc In
manded to be informed why the city would
be bled over a period of 80 years when the
bonds could be liquidated in eight or nine
years And why boost the interest to a "a per
cent, when, in these days, it is hard to get
even three per cent with safety?
And why enter into the contract to buy
the company before detailed inventory IS
made, so that a fair appraisal may be
reached on that conclusive data? Mr.. Papy
estimates that the price fixed by the fiscal
agents is a quarter of million dollars IN
excess of the real value.
At a fair price, he thinks that the ac-
QUESTION of the company by the city would
be gilt-edged investment. But If it is
bought let it be operated by Key Westers,
city council. Why let the company be oper-
ated by man, whose decisions would be
final ensconced in his office up in Chicago?
The Citizen, though it had not been in
formed about the provisions of the contract,
smelled that well-known rat Immediately.
And The Citizen struck our hard in de-
manding that the interests of the people OF
Key West be protected, that Key Westers,
who, in the final analysis, would be held re-
sponsible for the liquidation of the bonds,
at least be accorded the privilege of know
ing what they were buying, knowing the
price they were to pay to the last penny,
knowing how every penny would be paid.
The secrecy that yelled the entire pro-
eeedings was sufficient to force the con-
clusion that there were provisions in the
contract that the negotiators were anxious
not to come to the knowledge of the people
of Key West.
But the rabbit has been flushed,
and now he is everybodys game.
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E. R. Lowe, justice of the peace
at Tavernier, and c. o. Garrett,
deputy sheriff at Rock Harbor,
who had been in Key West to tes-
tify in a case tried in the GRIM
inal court, returned yesterday to
their homes.
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Today's Birthdays

Vice Admiral William 8 Pve-
born Minneapolis. 63 years ago
Cole Porter Of New York. CON
poser, born Peru Ind, 50 wears
ago.
ROLAND J. Thomas. president
United Auto Workers. born z Pal
estine, Ohio, 43 years ago
Samuel H Behrman. Of New
York, playwright. born Worces1er-
Mass. so years ago.
Raymond B. Fosdick. Of New
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

]. H. Montgomery, head of the
State Plant Board, who was in
Key West on an official visit, left
yesterday for Gainesville.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

Save when you are young and spend
when you are old. Apparently this is wise
Injunction but difficult of observance, hui
man nature being what it is.
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IMMENSE OUTPUT

CHICAGO.-The u. S. Alum
mum output is expected to reach
the rate of two billion pounds an
nually in 1913.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

The Key West High School Alu-
mni Association held its annual
reunion last night in the clubhouse
of the Key West Country Club.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

Miss Ruby Albury and Benja-
min Roberts, delegates represent
ing the Senior Christian Endeav-
or Society of the First Congrega-
tional Church, will leave this af-
ternoon for Fort Lauderdale to at
tend the annual convention of that
organization in Florida.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

Cigar manufacturers in Key
West decided today to hold a
meeting to make arrangements to
conform with the governments
code.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

1942.-U. S. and Britain pool
food and production resources.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

Parents who have sons in the service
seem to have an idea of what war means.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

Charles Yates, who had been on
an extended visit in Tampa, re-
turned yesterday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

Between trying to spell 'em and place
'em, the war theatre has given lot of US
a postgraduate education.
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KEY WEST in
DAYS GONE BY
FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN
OF JUNE 9. 1899

Key West had a heavy rainfall
yesterday. Two inches fell. the
heaviest in several months.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

Irving Sweeting was elected
chancellor commander of the Isle
of the Sea Lodge, No. 104, at a
meeting last night.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

Thomas Flood, examiner for the
BUREAU of lighthouses, who had
been in Key West on an official
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

Today The Citizen says in an
editorial paragraph:
AS an economy suggestion, why
not print the list of taxpayers in
stead of tax dodgers? The list
would be ever so much smaller and
consequently less expensive to the
state"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

Miss Carolyn Albury left yester-
Gay for Miami, where she was
called by the serious illness of her
father, Charles Albury. She was
accompanied by her aunt, Mrs.
Lenora Roberts.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

1941.-Arny opens North Amer
lean Aviation plant, California,
closed by strike
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

Medical science has not yet found the
means to prevent any of the serious dis
eases afflicting old age.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

OF San FrancIScOS leading cltl-
zens subscribe to historic Consti-
tuition Committee of Vigilance.
1866.-S'ome 1000 Fenians cross
into Canada from Vermont and
proceed to plumber the country.
1893.-Front part of Ford's The
atre, Washington, scene of Lin
coins assassination, collapses,
killing 28-had been taken over
by government and public amuse-
ments forever banned within it.
1905. - President Theodore
Roosevelt appeals to warning ia
pan and Russia to meet and con-
slider peace.
1909.-First balloon race in In.
dianapolis.
1918.-(25 years ago): Germans
launch new drive on western
front.
1931.-Heidleberg University.
Germany, dedicated new building
gift of former American stu
dents.
l940.-Allies evacuate Norway
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

State Senator Arthur Gomez
returned to Key West yesterday
with his brother, Alfonso Gomez,
who had been confined in the
Florida East Coast Railway Hos
pital in St. Augustine.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

Buying war bonds does two things: (1)
hits the Axis and (2) hits initiation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

l85l.-Charles J. Bonapzrte.
Baltimore lawyer. attoruev-gen-
eral OF the L. s. civil serfice re-
former, born there Died June p.
1921.
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Today's
Anniversaries

l785.-Sylvanus Thayer. army
engineer, West Point head. Path
er of West Point born Brainrree
Mass. Died Sept. Z, 1872
l791.-John Howard PAYNE. an
thor Of Home, Sweet Home. a
wandering, feverish actor-plzv-
wright, continually harassed bv
creditors. born New YORK Died
Funis- Africa, our consul. APRIL
-, 1882.
1827-Francis Miles Finch New
York lawyer, JuriSt, poet. author
of The Blue and the Gray. born
Ithaca, n. Y. Died July 81. 1907.
l836.-Eugene Hale. famec
Maine congressman-senator. horn
Turner, Me. Died Oct y. 1913
l85l-Charles J. Bonaparse.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

visit, left yesterday for Washing
ton.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-09

The Misses Winifred and Vir-
ginia Shine left yesterday for Tai
lahassee, the latter to enter sum
mer school in that city and the
former 10 visit her uncle, DR. w.
E. Lewis, and aunt, Mrs. E. L.
Dorsey.
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Today In History

1851.-To secure order, some 100
of San Franchises leading citi-
zens subscribe to historic Consti-
tuition Committee of Vigilance.
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Raymond B. Fosdick. Of NeE
York, president Of the Rockefel
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1940.-Allies evacuate Norway
and Norway falls to Nazis.
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1866.-S'ome 1000 Fenians cross
into Canada from Vermont and
proceed to plumber the country.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-29
Short -Brined
OR DILLED PICKLES

Forty 10 30 cucumbers, ?
ounces mixed pickle spices,
fresh or dried din ! pint vine
gar. / pound salt. 1 tablespoons
sugar and , gallons of water.
Use freSh-picked CucumberS
of uniform size and free from
any hlcmlSh. Wash them we'll
and drain. Into a 5-Callon crock
place a layer Of dill and spice.
Fill the Jar with the CuCumhcrS
within / or , inches of the top.
Mix the vinegar, salt. sugar and
water and pour over the NcCc-
table. Place a layer OF dill over
the top
Cover with a heavy plate and
weight lt down 10 hold the
vegetable under the brine Use
only enough brine 10 cover, for
as tho IQuId is drawn from The
vegetable the Jar may overflow.
Each day remove scum that
forms over the top and keep
the pickles al oven room tenn
perature. In about = weeks the
pickles are ready 10 use
Enr storage pack the cured
pickles in Sterllized quart lars,
and add q cup Of vinegar TO
each FIJI Up the IarS Win ne
pickle brine. but first strain lt
bring to a boil and cool. Seal
the lars and store in a cool,
dIv place.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-29
Washington Pie

Two cups ,.ftcd flour - 'ea-
spoons baking powder 5 'ca-
spoon salt. s cup shortening.
! cup sugar. ] to poon vanilla,
! egg. p cup m.h raspberry
currant or other Jelly and pow
dorcd sugar
Mix and s.ft flour baking
powder and salt. Cream short
cntng and sugar until fluffy. beat
in vanilla and egg Add flour
alternately with milk beating
until smooth after each addition.
TWn fnto = creased and foured
S-jnch IaNoI cake pans and bake
In "a moderate oven 1919 de-
ElnnAl-ahaHt 5-m+HHte-
When cold, cut each layer in
half by holding thread In each
TFN7 and CUrTTNE TTT0TIgT tNe
middle of the layer Spread lclIv
between layers and ,5fi pow
derod sugar over top. Makes u
portions.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-29

fruits and
Mix en-
By PRUDENCE PENNY

PICKLES ADD zcst and
spicy flavor 10 any meal. SO
keep this IN mind when YOU are
debating whether 10 DO any
picking this season. For with
MANY bland foods IN The off
ING for next fall and winters
meals. pickles Wiu serve 10 add
that hcedcd up 10 the menI--
Your pickles can be divided
into three types so take your
choice OF one or all. The ca.-
lr,t 20 make are the irWt
pickles. such as whole picked
peaches crab apples or pears,
cooked I'M a Spiry NWcct->oaf
syrup Second are The quick
process pickles made from vogc-
tables saltod down overnight
and combined with spices and
vinegar the next day without
cooking.
Lastly are The hunod pickles,
also called lcrmonled because
they 60 through n curing pro-
cess lasting from two weeks TO
two months. DrIl pickles and
the large sour cucumber pickles
helonC 10 this type. c.-
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-29
WARM. FLUFFY

HERE'S AN extra soft Jacket
which tuckS up under babyS
soft little chm With-a-caP- ga
keep Jack Frost from breath
ING on his tiny cars. Make both
to match OF baby yarn
loosely Crochotod IN Two
colors or m while and a color
a wonderful g!lt for a new
mother
Pattern 66S contains direc-
tions for set, stitches list of
materials.
Send II cents in coins for
this pattern 10 the Efttra
Wheeler Pattern Dept. l22)
Times !S-qi1i u a a J, Detroit
Mich.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-29
Picked Onions

Four quarts small white
onions. quart white vinegar.
pint water cup sugar, 2
tablespoons whole picking spice
and y teaspoons salt
p4p-thn hn-aH+eH-- hAilt44e-
water and let stand . 10 3 min
utcs. Cool immediately IN water.
Cut thin slice from the root
end Of the onions and slip off
the skin. Mix the vinegar
water. sugar. spices and salt,
and heat 10 the boiling point.
Pour over the onions which
have been packed in Steril2ed
larS. Seal. Process IN boiling
water bath for go minutes
Pickles may be ShOrt-hrinod
or long-hunod Rapid fcrmon-
tafion takes place in Tho first
method and the process is com
plete in about , weeks The
long brine process takes from i
10 S weeks but are less sub
ieCt 20 SpOIlaCc.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-29
HOROSCOPE :: ::

y Comes In, and Find What Your
evenntss in the promotion Of
daily work, helping others to do
the same.
JAN. p TO FEB. 20
AQurrips 49, Now be careful
how you say that sentence. And
procrastination can be the undo
ing Of much good you've already
achieved
FEB. of TO MARCH 20
Pjsccs-Think up something
rev and different (but not
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-29
By Frances Drake

utiook Is, According to the Stars,
bizarre!) 10 Said this mediocre
day. Perhaps you already have
some tricks up your sleeve?
4 CHILD born on this d0V:
Stable, conscientious. can be
relied upon in any circumstance
and trusted to do the soundest
thing -if left 10 use Your own
Judgment Unexpectedly. Artistic,
more talent than you yourself
realize.
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