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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-06
TODAY'S
ANNIVERSARIES


I755 - Nathan Hale, gentle
schoolmaster, martyr spy OK tne
Revolution who regretted that ne
had but one life to lose for ms
country, born Coventry, Conn.
Executed by British at age oil IL
Sept. %, 1776.
18O4--Louis Cooley. Phiiadei-
phia publisher of first magazine
exclusively for women. born
New York. Died Nov. 20, 1879.
1909 - Timothy Shay Author
prolific writer of temperance Mt
erature, author of "Ten Nights
in a Barroom7, born Orange
County, N. Y. Died March o.
1885.
1816-Catherine A. w. War
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-06
FATS AND RID POINTS

Any Key West housewife will tell you
that she esteems red points more than she
does money, because, however plentiful
meats, butter, cheese, shortening, cream
and condensed milk may be, she will be
unable to buy them unless she has the red
points.
Of what good is money? Key West
have asked that question many
a time since this country was put on ra-
tioning basis; and always have answered it
the same way: no good, unless you have the
points to go with it.
All of which brings TO the forefront the
reminder of Joe Pearlman, chairman of
the Monroe County Salvage Committee :
save your waste fats and take them to your
grocer or meat marketman and get red
points for them. Those points will come in
handy in obtaining foodstuffs that are not
available unless you have the points.
Human nature, as has been remarked
many a time, is the same everywhere, and
that is the reason why that many millions
OF pounds of waste fats in this country go
into the garbage can instead of being
placed in the channel that leads to the
use of the fats for a hundred and one things,
including munitions, by our government. On
that point, Alexander Williams, informa-
ton director of the American Fat Salvage
Committee, Inc, has written the following
TO The Citizen:
We have been shopping around in garbage
cans with the assistance of building Superin-
tendents, janitors and officials of the Depart
ment of Sanitation, and find that great deal
of used kitchen fat is going to waste. Very fire.
quently there partially filled cans of used
fat in apartment house and private home ref
use which indicates that women have started
to save fat but tired of the task aid threw it
away instead of rushing it to their meat dealer.
Housewives apparently get discouraged if
used cooking fat gets little high, or ac-
cumulates too slowly. Used fat help make
synthetic rubber, fabrics, paints, and help meet
thousands of other and home-front needs,
but it cannot be put to work until it is turned
over to meat dealer, who is the start of the
production line.
Meat dealers, acting as collection stations
and paying out cash and red ration points for
used fat, have done magnificent wartime job.
So have the American women who have saved
Il and turned in every possible ounce of cooking
grease so it may be available to fat-hungry
American industries
We would greatly appreciate it if you and
your Women's Page Editor would call the at
tention of the ladies in your community to the
fact that though many thousands of
pounds of used kitchen grease are saved, if
they are never turned in only half of a good
job has been done. AH<l-.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-06

YESTERDAY: Cynthia goes to
Wisconsin for the summer and,
together 10Th her hostess, Anne
Holt, makes the rounds of the
summer resorts, flirting ls.sh old
err men and boys alike. Carey
WinslotU, q 1.-THE, bronzed man of
thirty nlonopolizes CynthtoAs time.
As the days pass she teels herself
becoming younger and gayer.
She is happier than she's been in
years.
Chapter .t
CYNTHIA'S senses were en-
~ chanted. Color and taste and
sound were as newly born as
though she had never possessed
them. The cottage and the lake
and the solitude became enchant-
ed, belonging to her and to Carey.
The second week Anne went
away for two days and stayed
ten You're sure you won't be
lonely?" Her puckish grin was
her own answer. Needs must
when the devil drives and Roger
Holt is holding on to his dollars.
If I'm to keep off relief I've got
to put the screws on"
Cynthia and Carey saw her off,
waved goodby as the train started
and promptly forgot her.
The close little world was their
own and it became smaller as
they drew it about them. That
was the night he kissed Cynthia.
Il was very simply done. He took
her face Between his hands and
lifted her mouth to'his: There was
not much passion IN the kiss; it
was, more as ii he saYored it first
before he gave it meaning.
Heart shaped" he said. Il like
women with heart shaped faces.
You'll 90, Cynthia"
She was angry and startled but
there was something more, even
strong ger. DISAPPOINTMENT. The
kiss didn't mean TO him what it
did to her and she was inundated.
Don't ever do that agajn!" she
cried, and hated herself for
sounding like silly girl with no
talent for handling men.
He laughed. 4 won't" he
promised. mot like that" And
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1t is said that when Mohammed formu-

1t is said that when Mohammed fOrmu-
lated his new religion. he was at loss to
know how to summon his followers to
praper in the mosques. The Christians used
bells and the Brahmin priests used cOnch-
shells. What was left? At last he thought
of employing the human voice and the
muezzin was created and his voice may be
heard sllamonng the faithful to prayer
even to this day in all places where the
Mohammedan religions prevail.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-06

-FreSident Humans proposal that unem-
xoHment insurance be increased to S25 a
er. and Guaranteed for 20 weeks animal
2 NAV DC good politics. At one fell swoon
z pl,ases he hOi polloi, is consistent nv
sa.iiming his support of the Murrav-Kii-
.src bill with its dole of sS25 weekly and
81 In the comforting knowledge thar
Cknqrcss will never pass thissociahstic hi,
kho SAYS we haven't another keen poli-
.s+--~ =. &c White House?
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ADMIRAL LAND FED UP

ice-Admiral Emory S. Land, chair
man Of the u. S. Maritime Commission, says
he is fed up with the eternal alibi" that
shortage of ships is responsible for the diff
fcultes that confront us in the prosecution
% the war.
1t is not a shortage of ships" he de-
elares. so much as it is temporary shortages
Of cargo at pier-heads, d layed turn
arounds, shortage of ports, shortage of in
land transportation, too extensive use of
ships as floating storehouses, congestion of
ports, shipping priorities and number of
kindred ailments. -.
The observation is timely because many
pesAss Aaks gotten tbs dafipitawu iaapressien
that most or our shortages, including those
aStsennz zixiliaR seeaoaas, due to- a
b "f ships in which to transport goods,
em other nations. 80, ,.e,s. , .
obviously, the Admiral does not claim
tsat the delays complained of can be alto.
Esiher avoided. Many of them stem from.
'ehdhionS which ere unavoidable in various
Var theaters. Nevertheless, we SUSPECT
u = Seue Improvement in the handling.
0shos, ion and use of ships is possible and
Ehld develop generally if the public had
. ie'fer understanding of the situation.
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field, Kentucky eoes aossl
one Of south's first wosnsn Sc
lists Of Importance. born NaseAs
Miss. Died May n. 1877
fs92-will James. aftisi-auif#
horn Montana. Died Sept a Is
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Commander Camera
Is Awarded Medal

Commander Robert S. Camera,
USN, of Allentown, Pa, who is
remembered by many here, par
ticularly at MAS, Boca Chica,
where he served as commander
of a fleet Air Wing during 1913
and 1914, was awarded the Bronze
Star Medal by the commander in
chief. U S. Atlantic Fleet, for his
outstanding performance of duty
as training officer" in his tour of
duty here.
The award was made to him at
his present duty station some
where with the Atlantic Fleet.
Commander Camera wears the
American Defense, A m eri a n
Theater and European Theater
ribbons. He is a graduate of the
University of Maryland and the
U. S. Naval Academy.
Jan Struther, noted English
author, born III years ago.
struction of, some $50 German
planes the previous week.
1944-D-Day in Europe-Allies
move in on Normandy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-06

The schools of the nation are rapidly
closing for the summer vacation, thus Civ
ing commencement orators an opportunity
to settle affairs
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The 1900 correspondents attending
y San Francisco conference make the
Owe OF Babel look like "a ratifyinp con-
Hntion. ~
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-06

Not necessary knowledge: Benjamin
Franklin coined the word "harmonica."
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10 the lip on military matters!

I. Aho'her thing not everybody knows:
1 ann scientists say. is more endangered
4 heat than by cold.
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Jan Struther, noted English
author, born Al years ago.
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You'll be exactly what you seem
to be with those years erased
St. Paul recorder., 1945-10-05

arrange their minds" on the racial
question. On board ship there was
a shortage of coffee cups, and
southern soldiers and Negro G.I.'s
shared their cups, a state of affairs
that would cause Senator Bilbo of
Mississippi to pop a blood vessel
if he knew about it.
The Minneapolis veteran re-af-
frmed the statements made by out
spoken servicemen of both races,
that race prejudice in the Army
comes mostly from the top down
instead of from the ranks up.
"The white boys are thinking on
a firmer basis now, and are trying
to find something to talk to colored
fellows about. The only means most
of them had out in the Pacific was
through the old songs. When they
would hear US singing, they would
come up and ask if we knew 'Old
Black Joe,' or 'Swanee River
They didn't mean any harm; it was
the only basis they knew on which
to start conversation. Of course,
it set up a barrier between us
right away instead of helping, as a
lot of our fellows resented If 81
Washer explained.
He continued, thinking carefully
before he spoke. "I'm sure the
commanding officers could foresee
mass inter-racial sociaEzing, be-
cause when we moved in with the
18th Air Force on Morotai, some
of the white fellows were eager to
mingle with US, even suggested that
they move their tents over next to
ours, and vice versa, but when the
co.'s found out what was going on,
we were moved away"
Didn't Move Too Soon
The move didn't come too soon,
and probably saved the lives of
many of the 429th men because the
Japs increased the intensity of their
attacks almost Immediately, and the
going became hot and heavy. It
was the job of the 429th to keep
communications installed and tele-
phone lines open between airstrips
and headquarters, and between
various units.
Continued on Page Two)
St. Paul recorder., 1945-10-05

in the third grade, but her mother
wouldn't agree. She doesn't want
her amazing little daughter to be
pushed too far too fast, and al
though Susan Nan gets her aca-
demic training with the second
graders, her playmates are all
youngsters in her own age group.
Susan acts just like any other
little girl of five. Tuesday after
noon, when her mother at our in
vitation brought her by the Record
er office, she was more inter-
ested in~playing with her blonde
little sister, than in displaying any
mental marvels.
Area of Genius
Okey M. Coger, of the state edu-
cation department of West Vir-
ginia, who gave Susan Nan the Otis
test, said of the child:
NAN has an exceptionally high
10, beyond the scale of the test
administered, which places her
within the area of genius" Coger
revealed the tests scale was placed
on the level of an eight-year-old,
and that Nan has the intelligence
of child at least twice her age.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-10-05

| She excels in reading, spelling and
arithmetic.
Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Ellis,
herself a former kindergarten
teacher, demonstrated Susan Mans
favorite "game," one which left
adult employees in the newspaper
office completely stumped, while
Susie took it in stride, and seemed
impatient because it was holding
up her sharing of toy her little
sister was carrying. Mrs. Carter
spelled out the words to a sentence
made up on the spot, all at once,
one following the other swiftly.
Susie, with hardly moments hesi-
tation, interpreted the sentence be-
fore the adults surrounding her
had even. got past the first two
words.
Ohio State University tested her,
last May, and although it refused
to reveal her score, Mr. and Mrs.
Ellis were notified that, owe have
found she is of very superior in
telligence."
Could Snap Fingers
Mrs. Carter said Nan could snap
her fingers at will when she was
only a year and a half, a feat which
called for muscular coordination
far beyond her years. At the age
of three, Susan Nan was able to
read simple nursery rhymes, and
was beginning to learn to write.
She also started to read the news
papers at three.
She writes letters now just like
any grown-up, and has quite a list
of soldier correspondents! The G.
rs whom Susie writes to, proudly
display her letters, paste them in
scrapbooks, and make as much over
LIlSIu ctS IL BIC "C4S q 1u44 -44SOSSN
pin-up girl. She's on her way to
being one, too, if she continues at
the present rate. She takes after
her pretty mother, but Mr.. Ellis is
a nice looking young fellow, also.
The senior Ellises are both grad
yates of West Virginia State Col
lege at Institute, and Mr.. Ellis was
sent here on scholarship from his
state health department to prepare
for an executive position in Public
Health Education after he gets his
MA.
Susan Nan will probably also be
under the scrutiny of the demon
stration school at the University
of Minnesota, but so far she's more
interested in dolls and toys than
mental tests.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-10-05

SERGEANT MILFORD WASHER
was on had to change course. Some.
one neglected to notify certain jar
submarine commanders that the
war was over! Instead of landing
at San Francisco, the ship docke6
at Seattle, after spending two an6
half days in Puget Sound until
an experienced pilot came out tc
guide it through waters laid with
protective mines.
Of the homeward trip, Washer
said simply: "There was water
when you went to bed, water wher
you woke up, and if you laid down
on the deck for a nap, somebody
would come along with a scrubpail
of water and ask you to move
Everything was all wet.
There was a comradeship be.
tween white and Negro soldiers
on the battlefront and on board
ship, but when the boat docked al
Seattle, it changed somehow. The
change wasn't too great, but il
was noticeable, he stated. The
danger was over and home in
fluences were beginning to come to
the surface again.
Minds Re-Arranged
Nevertheless, Washer thinks the
white boys 'had something to re-
St. Paul recorder., 1945-10-05

er Group, and his brother, Earl,
Jr., are both in the st. Paul schools
squad, at right and left halfback
respectively, and both are deter
mined to make good-even outshine
each other when it comes to pig
skin accomplishment.
Graduates of Minneapolis Cen
tral High School, the boys are the
sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl W. Bow
man of 1855 Fifth Avenue South.
Henry, who was a lieutenant with
the 332nd, is married to the former
Caroline McWatt of St. Paul, and
is the father of a small daughter.
He is majoring in Business Ad-
ministration, while his brother,
Earl, is majoring in Physical Edu-
cation.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-10-05

combine the two merely to seq
gregate Negroes in one COM
pOsite group"
PattersOn's Reply
When it was reported to the
NAACP that DR.. Frederick D. Pat
terson, the president of Tuskegee
Institute, was urging the establish
ment of a segregated unit at
Tuskegee, the NAACP telegraphed
DR.. Patterson that, "We are in
formed that you have approached
the War Department with a pro-
posal that the Negro Units in the
Army Air Force all be assigned to
the Tuskegee Army Air Field in a
segregated postwar composite
group consisting of fighters and
bombers and that you have urged
approval Of this program by the
Army Air Force. We are also ad-
vised that white fighter units and
white bomber units are assigned to
different commands and stationed
at different fields and that your
proposal constitutes a variance
from Army practice applicable to
Negro fighters only"
DIR. Patterson telegraphed the
NAACP on September 25th, II have
suggested to War Department that
Negro fighter units now segregated
wherever they are located, be based
at the Tuskegee Army Flying Field
in terms of their peacetime
strength, and until such times as
the army develops a policy which
will discontinue these squadrons as
Negro units with integration with
other flying personnel. These
squadrons if based at the Tuskegee
Army Flying Field would be units
of the Southeastern, Flying Com
mand as would white units based
in this area. Please quote this
statement in full if it is used or
referred to. Thanks"
The NAACP expressed disagree
ment with DR.. Patterson's proposal
that segregation be continued, or
that any encouragement should be
given to segregation until such
time as the War Department of its
own volition decides to abolish seq
gregation.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-10-05

The sergeant whistled and
snapped his fingers in summons
cain. "C'mon. Fido" By tn
time, the telegraph office custom
ers were peering in bewilderment
at the sergeant, at the floor, and
at each other. Finally, one lady
who apparently had read all of the
latest magazine articles on return
ing veterans and psychoneuroses
whispered in awed tones:
"Psycho!"
"What," asked another patron, OF
the sergeant's buddy, "is wrong
With him."
Not a Fit Subject
The buddy shook his head sadly
"I'd rather not talk about it." The
two sent their kilograms and went
out, the sergeant still calling the
little dog who wasn't there.
Wilford Washer, 1928 Fifth Ave
So., was the sergeant, and he is
mentally on the beam, in case there
are any doubts. He received his
honorable discharge from the Army
at Camp Mccoy on September 27,
after 20 months in the Pacific.
One of the things he has noticed
about civilians since his return is
that a surprisingly large percent
age of them expect veterans to be
war nerve victims or otherwise
changed in some queer manner.
"People look at you so peculiarly,
sometimes" Washer said, Monday.
His tone intimated that they regard
a veteran with the same wariness
G.I.'s display on approaching a sus-
pected BOBBY trap, and with the
same expectation-an explosion at
any minute.
Buddy Helped Him
Washer decided that since he was
expected to act "off the BEAM" he
would oblige, hence the perform
ance at the telegraph office in which
he was aided and abetted by white
buddy who was equally as disgusted
with the civilian attitude.
The ex-sergeant, who served with
the 429th Signal company on
Guadalcanal, the Philippines, and
on Morotai Island, had his home
coming DELAYED when the boat he
St. Paul recorder., 1945-10-05

dates will be November 1. All
votes will have to be in by 8 p. m. on
December 6, and the final counting
will take place on December 8, at
8 8p. m.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements will announce the name
of the hall where the dance will be
held as soon as one has been chosen.
The Associated Negro Credit Union
is sponsoring the contest, the first
one held since the beginning of the
war.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-10-05

ley'S statement that certain Negro
Doctors had been urging him to set
up separate hospitals for Negro
"Any minority group of Negro
doctors desiring segregated vet
Grams facilities are not known to
the National Medical Association
and certainly expresses a very
small minority opinion request
ing segregated veterans hOspi-
tals," DIR. RObinsOn's telegram
declared further. 81 cannot en-
vision any member of our na-
tiOnal organization making any
such request. I wish that the
Veterans Committee of the Ma
tiOnal Medical Association could
have conference with (GeneraD
Omar Bradley. I am writing
chairman of committee to make
appointment. The National
St. Paul recorder., 1945-10-05

illness at st. Barnabas hospital.
She was the wife of Clarence Bell,
long time Minneapolis business
man.
Mrs. Bell was born in Yazoo,
Miss, and had been a resident of
Minneapolis since 1909.
Her remains lay in state at the
Woodland Funeral Home until Sun
day, Sept. 80. The remains were
then shipped to Chicago for burial.
Survivors aside from her hus-
band,. Clarence, are two brothers,
William Thomas of Chicago and
Perry Thomas, Lovejoy, ILL.,, and
one sister, Maggie Blackman of
Milwaukee, Wis.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-10-05
Vet Administration
Head in Minneapolis
Denies Bios Churqe

Reports that Negroes seeking
positions in the Veterans Admin
istration were denied jobs because
of race were denied Friday by D. C,
Firmin, assistant manager of the
Veterans Administration in Mime
apolis.
Firmin conferred with James T.
Wardlaw, executive secretary of
the Minneapolis Urban League, and
Cecil Newman, vice-president of the
league.
All Treated Alike
Mr.. Firmin said it was the in
tention of the local administration
to treat all applicants alike regard
less of race.
He commented on the fact that
there had been practically no Negro
applicants for jobs at the installa-
ton.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-10-05

Secretary, informed the Sec
retary Of War:
eve are unalterably opposed
to segregation in the postwar
Air Force or Army. The United
States has an excellent example
of successful integratiOn in the
experience of the 332nd Fighter
Group, and particularly Of the
99th Pursuit Squadron in North
Africa and Italy which served
without friction or difficulty with
white fighters, many of them
from the Deep South.
'The racial atmosphere of Ala
bama is such that no self-re-
specting Negro member of the
Air Force could serve there with
out the risk of clashes with the
dominant community pattern of
anti-NegrOism. In the reduc-
tiOn of the Air Force, there will
be many excellent fields far bet
ter equipped and suited for bomb
er and fighter training than is
the field at Tuskegee, which fields
are located in areas where Negro
fiiers would not be subjected to
constant humiliation. Tuskegee
Field does not at present have
adequate facilities for training
command or tactical units. Nor
does it have adequate housing
and other facilities for officers
and enlisted personnel. We real
ize that such facilities can be
created by the expenditure of
considerable money. But fields
already created could be used, and
thus avoid unecOnOmicaI spend
ing of money for the erection of
additional facilities at Tuskegee.
We understand that the pro-
posed establishment of a COM
pOsite group for the training of
Negro fighters and bombers, ap-
plies only to Negroes, and is a
device to combine all training of
Negro fiiers in one place. White
fighter units will be assigned to
one field and white bomber units
to another under different COM
mands. We do not believe that
the same excellence and efficiency
can be attained by attempting to
St. Paul recorder., 1945-10-05

evening of December z, the fourth
anniversary of Pearl Harbor. The
theme of the 1945 contest is: "What
Should the Negro in the Twin Cities
Contribute to tht Postwar Era ?"
Each candidate will be expected to
offer a platform based on this
theme. The Mayor of Bonneville
idea is not going to be built around
a popularity contest this year, so
much as it will be an attempt to
present a representative man with
representative ideas to the Mime
apolis and St. Paul community.
Deadlines Announced
The last date for filing of candi-