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Catholic Editor i'm
 Defense of Unions

Philadelphia-The American la bor movement needs the active par- ticipation of women of high ideals, Rev. Benjamin L. Masse, s. J., as- sociate editor of America" Cath ollie weekly review. told 1000 members of the Catholic Girls High School Alumnae Association.
 Father Masse said many criti- cisms of unions and their leaders are unjust and unfounded.
 There are about S6O,OO0 union officials in the United States" he added, "but I am convinced the proportion of crooks, racketeers or dictators among them is no greater than in other segments of the pop ulatiOn, and that it Is even less than among some professional groups" :"
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Council that Waldo Clarke be summoned before that body for examination on Tuesday, Novem- Der 9th, and recommended that MT. Clarke be removed from all committees that he presently serves upon for the City.
 As result of Mondays expose. the junior members of the Cham- Der of Commerce have been filled with indignation and have backed with civic pride the Metal Trades Council of New London County's and the New London Central La. bor Uuion's resolutions and propos- als for the industrial development of New London Harbor! They have promised that the Chamber of Commerce will go Whole Hog with Labor for the development of the north harbor for Maritime Trade, if we in turn back them for the South Harbor Yacht Basinl
 Labor in Eastern Connecticut has the ever vigilant Congressman Chase Going WodehouSe with her foresighted vision to thank for the bright turn of events in New London County's history.
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security for themselves, Schwellen- bach said. The Answer, he de- clared, is to develop an economy of abundance"
 The Secretary also riddled claims that labor is being paid "high wages"
 There may be adequate wages paid in some industries, but rarely do we hear about the low wages paid to the hundreds of thousands of workers" he stressed.
 For example, we have heard much about high wages paid rail- road workers and we assume all railroad workers are adequately compensated" he said.
 T have not examined the figures, but was told recently of one branch of the railroad industry where hum dreds of thousands of workers have annual incomes of less than $1,S00 a year."
 Actually, despite increases in wages during the last half cen- tury, "the workers today get a smaller part of the consumer dol- lar than they got years ago when wages were low," Schwellenbach maintained.
 He cited both the railroads and coal mines as instances where ''the labor cost has declined over the years"
 "That would mean that a larger part of the consumer dollar has been going, year by year, to some one other than the wage earner," he said.
 Schwellenbach didn't identify who was getting that larger part" but it was obvious he meant a steadily greater portion is going to business and industry in profits.
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Greed of Business Is Scored by Bishop
Chicago Prelate DenOunceS The Placing of Dollar Above
 Human Beings

Chicago-Stop pursuing the dol lar as ''an almighty God' and pay more attention to workers as hu- man beings! That challenge was flung to business by the Most Rev Bernard J. Shell, senior auxiliary bishop of the Catholic archdiocese here.
 Addressing a convention of the A. F. of L. Building Service Em- ployees, Bishop Shell declared that "the cleansing of our temple can be- gin with American business" He charged that the princes of priv ilege, while proclaiming their be- lief in the American way proceed in their predatory manner, seek ing above all to insure profits, ut terly disregarding persons"
 If business really wants to pre- serve the American economic sys- tenn, 1t must pay higher wages, back full employment, support ade- quate unemployment compensation and agree to at least 65-cent-an- hour minimum pay rate," the Cath olic leader contended.
 If this country is ever destroyed, 1t will not be by foreign enemies, but by destitution and wretched- ness within," he warned.
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Clarke has his large thumb in' the Industrial Pie of not only New London, but all of Connecticut. As a result of special act of the Con- necticut General Assembly w. c. was appointed Vice Chairman of the Connecticut Port Survey Com mission that was established last June 18th!
 In this latter capacity Clarke ap- peared three weeks ago before the Port Development Committee of the Federal Maritime Commission in Washington and deliberately gave erroneous information on our Port Facilities and the attitude of our local people towards the de- velopment of N. L. Harbor. He claimed that the City was DEAD" and that the question of "DEVEL- OPING ITS PORT FACILITIES WAS HELPLESSw That THERE WAS NO NEED FOR THE COM MISSION TO BOTHER ITSELF ABOUT NEW LONDON"
 The Port Development Commis- sion was amazed by Clarke's att titude and testimony as it was di- rectly opposed to the testimony given to the Committee by other Ports in Connecticut. On further investigation they found that the New London Port activities had decreased as other Connecticut Port Trade had increased during the past few years.
 They wondered if Clarke's con- nection with the complete "One Corporation control of the New London State Pier and his fnan- cial interest in New London's Un- ion Station had anything to do with his testimony, and Mrs. Anne Dewey, member of the Maritime's investigation committee, contacted Connecticut's Congressman Chase Going Wodehouse who advised a local investigation by the Com mission!
 In making his report and intro ducing Mrs. Dewey to the Council on Monday night the City Manager declared If Waldo Clarke's re- port is accepted by the Maritime Commissions Investigating Com mittee, it would seriously endanger not only the FUTURE DEVELOP MENT of New London, BUT ITS CONTINUED EXISTENCE ON A REASONABLE STANDARD OF EIVINGp
 Mrs. Dewey's investigation drew out in the open many pertinent facts regarding Waldo Clarke's ac- tivities. Local business men and members of the Chamber of Com merce revealed that Waldo Clarke had opposed the development of New London on every hand, and that his control of the Union Sta tion with it's limited and made uate facilities for a city of New London's size and prestige had been a standing detriment to the City's expansion for years! He has also opposed the Norwich-New London commercial airield de- velopment, which proposes to take over the Groton Air Base for com merce after next March, 1946.
 City Manager Henk1e's report drew a demand from the City
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Waldo Clarke Exposed!

Monday night, November 5th be chalked off a Red Letter Day in the industrial affairs of the great city of New London battle ragged the floor of the City Council with all the members ranged against objective
 cog industrial development of Eastern Connecticut Waldo Clarke who is member of the City Finance Board
 His actions can best be remembered months op posing the cs purchase of the old Branard Armstrong Mill on Union Street. Since then it has been taken by Max Belt and the last named financial offer made to that gentleman was S150000!
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SchuUeIIerbach Pleads For
 Open Mind On Labor Issues

Secretary of Labor Defends Right to Strike and Union Shops
 Cites Lies About Wages of Raimen
 powerful appeal to farmers to demonstrate better understanding of the problems of workers voiced last week by Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwelenbach.
 His plea was contained article prepared especially for the Pennsyvana Coop Review magazine of the Penn sylvana Farm Federation He wrote it at the Fed eration's invitation.
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JAPrBALLOON OFFENSIVE

japanese paper balloons which have
brought small bombs as far as Michigan
into various western states, Canada and
Mexico, will be replaced, according to Jap
anese propaganda spokesman, by "strato-
sphere balloons manned by death-defying
Japanese pilots''sf ~A ."
The Japanese news agency, Domel,
says that the first pilotless balloon was
launched against the United States on
March 10th and that hundreds have been
released from Japan every day since that
time. "They are creating havoc in the en-
emv country" declares Colonel Shozo Max
alma, spokesman of the Japanese armed
forces.
The Japanese claim that their balloons
have ceiling of nearly 10000 feet, be-
yond the reach of interceptors, and take
Just over 100 hours to reach the United
States. So far, the only fatalities reported
in this country occurred when a small
group, on an outing, handled one of the
bombs, which exploded, killing five per-
sons.
The possibility exists that the Japan
csc, who have developed the suicide-plane
attack, may find balloonists willing to risk
the long journey to the United States in
order to drop few small bombs The dam
age to be expected would be small but the
possibility exists that some balloons may
reach the United States.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-19
owl JOB NEARS END
BUT NEWS AGENCY
STILL, NEEDED

The House of Representatives,
by a vote of 1873 to 128, has cut
deeply into the proposed appro-
priation for the Office of War In
formation, with it's cut applying
especially to the agency's activi-
ties in Europe and the United
States.
Budget estimates had reduced
the proposed $53, 1885, 1867 request
ed the proposed $50, 875, 1867 re-
quested to $42,000,000 and the
House Appropriations Committee
recommended $35,000,0OO. The
House, with little more than
half of the membership voting,
cut the sum down to S18, 100000.
The end of the war in Europe
afforded justification for a dras-
tic reduction in the amount need
ed bv the OWL If one views its
operations exclusively as an
agency to promulgate wartime
propaganda. the amount remain
ing may be sufficient to enable
it to distribute ample propaganda
in the Far East. However, in the
unsettled conditions that now OBJ
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-19
PROTECTION

A Key Wester, who had resided in
Havana % years, said yesterday, We'll,
thought | was doing everything for the
best. and it turned out to be the worst for
me-"
He was talking about keeping the bulk
of his cash in Cuban banks, instead of the
Royal Bank of Canada or the branch of
the First National Bank of New York, and,
when the crash came, he lost all but a COM
paratively small percentage of his money.
81 deposited in the Cuban banks be-
cause had no difficulty in borrowing from
them"
We frequently hear the remark that
such and such banker is hardboiled, but
we forget that, behind the reason for his
being hardboiled, is his care in protecting
his depositors' money.
That remark was made to the Key
Wester, who had accumulated fortune OF
a quarter million in Cuba only to lose prac-
tically all of it, and he replied that he real
lied it to be true Further he said that he
also realized, at the time he was deposltlng
his money, that the best place for It, so far
as its safety was concerned, was in either
of the two banks that did not fail when the
crash came in 1929.
That term "hardboiled" is often APP
piled to parent but one may be sure that
he assumes that attitude toward his off
springs for their own good. The easy-going
father or mother is likely to have easy
going children, who will find the going
hard later in life. 20 ai17eH
Protection against adverse eventuali-
ties is the surest way to protect ones fu-
ture, whether it concerns his bank deposits
or the ordinary things in life with which ne
is confronted daily.
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RAIL TRAFFIC TO BE
TANNED. REDUCED SPACE
FOR CIVILIANS

Some idea of the stategic plan
that has been evolved for the de-
feat of Japan can be secured from
the statement of President Tru-
man that it requires that our
armies be transferred to the Far
Pacific in the very short time of
ten months.
The President points out that
this task is only one-third less
than the similar job for the Euro
pean war which required nearly
forty-eight months.
With these facts, it should be
plain that the railroads of the
country, especially the western
railroads, will be more than
loaded to capacity and that
equipment for troop movement
will be withdrawn from other
railroads. This means that facili-
ties for civilian passengers will
be greatly reduced.
The President points out that,
other than troop movements, one
third of the passengers-on regular
trains are men in uniform and
that the number of military trav-
oilers will be greatly increased as
the men come home fom Europe
to enjoy a short furlough before
proceeding into the Pacific theat-
er of war.
The ntdn and munitions en-
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REBUKING CRITICS

High-ranking officials of the Navy,
taking cOgnizance of some home-front crit
icism of the Army's role on Okinawa, are
emphatic in denying that the Army bun
gled the ground campaign and Vice-Ad-
miral Richmond Kelly Turner. who was the
commander of our amphibious forces at
Okinawa, says that so far as he is con-
cerned, there was no difference between
Army, Navy and Marines out where the
fighting took place.
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal chal-
lenged the critics who attempted to blame
the Army command, saying that it is easy
to make after-the-fact conclusions but the
fact remains that we are winning on Oki-
nawa and that more than $4,000 Japanese
have been Killed on the island.
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her. II was repellant though there
was nothing factual about it.
There must be m G t n n g
frightfully wrong with me-" she
thought. II wanted this and now
I'VE got it and hate it" And
danced on, smiling.
Ned displayed a wistful turn.
"You look happy, Cynthia. That's
all / ever wanted. Just to see you
happy"
She could say what she pleased
to Ned, thank heaven. Then be
happy yourself. It's awfully easy
when you meet the right person"
Cruel. of course. Even rude. But
she felt an infamous desire to
hurt somebody as she watched
Carey dance and talk so effort
lessly with a plump woman grow
ing purple on the CLASSY testing
ground for elderly feet in spike
heels.
She said too quickly. Forgive
me, Ned. You think things have
changed but it isn't so. Well just
let Carey come in, shall we?
There ought to be room in a
friendship for three"
"But there never is" His voice
was dry. "And I don't believe
Carey would want a share in it."
Why share when he has every
thing?
"Why do you say THAR" She
was glad of an excuse to be angry
with him. you're not fair to
Carey-none of you are"
Ned was calm. He couldn't be
shaken by little fiare-ups. He's a
pretty decent chap" he said
gravely. "He's got a job and he's
sticking to it. You'd better not
interfere, Cynthia.
She was panicked a. if he had
put into words the secret. stealing
thought she had harbored.
"You think that my job-your
job-aren't as real as his?"
He nodded. Mot any more. Not
for awhile. at least. We've got to
face it, Cynthia. People will have
something to think of besides pre-
serving pretties for posterity. II
you've had an idea Of coaxing
Carey off into our country you'd
better abandon it now. Forget it"
GO Ned, who was little stupid,
- a little dull, had read her
mind. She was as transparent as
that: He had seen through her
wish to bring Carey before her
friends as the first tentative effort
at weaving him away from his
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-19
yoftCE or CALLING Pou n,ps

Notice is hereby given To whom
IL may concern that on the 3rd day
of July. A. ID. 1915. at 500 o'cloek
r. NJ. in the Monroe County Court
House, the Board of County Com
nlissioiiers of Monroe County, Flor.
ida, will open sealed bids for the
scarifying, rolling, oiling and sand
ing of the following:
4 strip of Roosevelt Boulevard,
in the City of Key West. Flor
ida, Thirteen G3) feet on either
side of the center line extending
from the triangle at the head
of the Island near the Naval
Hospital along in front of the
Naval Hospital to the bridge. "A
distance of approximately Two
Thousand (2,000) feet. including
connections with the main en-
trance to the Naval Hospital.
and Avenue e. and Flagler
Avenue.
The bids shall be submitted on a
unit price per square yard. The
work shall he commenced within
thirty (30) days after the awarding
of the contract, and each bid sub
mitted shall be accompanied by a
performance bond, or certified cheek
or a Cashiers check representing
Five per cent. t5foJ of the total
of the bid.
All bids shall be submitted In the
County Clerks Office In the Monroe
County Court House, Key West,
Florida, on or before $3.50 O'clock
z. NJ, July Bird. a. ID. 1945.
Fhe Board reserves the right To
accept OF reject Asteslofsaii bids made
to this adysrl seine ht
Dated at Key West, Florida, June
18th, 1916. tsi.te
Ross c Sawyer. Clerk,
Board County Commissioners,
Monroe County. Florida.
jun19-26,1
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81 EyfLyN MlleeAy cANpsttt

world into her own. A good job
for Carey! That had seemed Q
simple answer but now there was
no answer at all
The music stopraed and people
were getting back ITO their tables
in q pleasant huunrning. Carey
looked across ththr heads and
found Cynthia's EYES. ;.
Shall we 90? .IAave you had
enough OF this? Are you satisfied
with me?
folding her into her white coat.
"Poor little girl. You look tired
in spite of being the, prettiest wo-
man in the room"
That made her smile. Prettier
than Myra Conway or Mrs. Har-
mon, president Of this and that.
She leaned against, him. But Il
was sweet.
Are you sure youA haven't been
cheated? You should have been
dancing with the young ones.
not" She tried to be mocking
but it failed wheni she felt him
stiffen and draw away.
81 wonder If we're going to
quarrel some day. Cynthia: !"
She was contrite ANo. Never:
We won't ever quarrel. Carey.
don't know why Pm like this"
He looked down at her averted
face.
@You're worrying about some
thing"
@Pm not. really Everything's
Just fine. Even the ofnce is taking
care of itself-autUnatically."
"Then IFS the children or rum
ming a big house. Or Maud. She
left lot on your shoulders when
she moved three hundred feet
away" IT was he who was mock
ing now. asl95e fig.cti
Not Maud. or the ehildrenb she
denied family. TITS only-that I
wonder if we've done right.
Carey. Were we selfish TO take
things into our hands. as we did?
Right for everyone--for you and
me?"
He brought the car to a stop
before the house Fright it we
loved each other" he said. a
They walked up the path to-
gether but there was a cold spot
| inside her that would not be
denied. Something threatened her
happiness. She could feel it COM
ing nearer.
It was waiting in the house.
To be continued
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-19
DEWEY FOR LOWER
TARIFFS. BUT PARTY
STAND VARIES

Governor Thomas E. Dewey
favorS the cancellation of World
War l debts. the early settlement
of Lend-Lease obligations and
that the United States take the
lead in reducing tariffs.
The Republican presidential
candidate of 1914 says that this
country should initiate a world
conference for general tariff re-
duction' and should seek, with
Great Britain, the long-term
sterilization of the all-important
dollar sterling rate. -
The declaration of Governor
Dewey, titular leader of the Re-
publican Party, is interesting but
not conclusive. There is no indi-
cation whatever that Republican
members of Congress agree with
Governor DeWey's conclusions
and practically every vote, except
that upon Breton Woods, in
dictates that Republican congress-
men have foreign policy entire
ly different from that of Cover
nor Dewey, former Governor
Landon and Mr.. Wendell Willkie,
the three last presidential nom
inees of the COP.
The difference in the viewpoint
of the Republicans is explained,
we think, by the fact that the
presidential nominees look at the
matter from a national viewpoint.
while members of Congress, rep
resenting restricted districts, are
inclined to play for the votes of
protected industries and favored
individuals.
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TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS

William A. Brady of New York.
veteran theatrical manager, born
San Francisco, 80 years ago.
Guy A. Lombardo. band leader,
born London, Canada, 43 years
ago.
William r. Castle. onetime un-
dersecretary of state, born In
Honolulu, 81 years ago.
The Duchess of Windsor born
Monterey, Pa. so years ago.
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\A,~C@ LOCKING
Egllk "a W. IHIN1GIUN
SIMS Washington CORRESPONDENT of The Citi2s

tain in Europe, it might be wise
for the United States to make
certain that its viewpoint is
thoroughly understood abroad
The Owl has beer cuffed con-
siderably and it is hardly pos
sible to attempt any appraisal of
its work. Nevertheless, in the in
terest of the public, some provi-
sion should be made for the dis
tribution of accurate information
to the people of this country. The
activities of government during
the years of peace are so wide
spread that it is utterly impos-
sible for newspapers and radio
stations to provide complete in
formation. The citizen should
have some agency from which to
secure this service.
Another angle that arises con-
Germs the doubtful wisdom of al
lowing newspapers and radio sta
tions to have anything like a
monopoly upon the distribution
of governmental information. We
think that an office of public in
formation should be permanently
established in Washington for the
purpose of providing the average
American with an agency from
which to secure information
about governmental affairs
Needless to say, such an agency
should be entirely nonpolitical,
non-partisan and without Interior
propaganda purposes.
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TWO KEY WESTERS
ON STETSON ROLL

DeLAND, Fla. - Two youns
women from Key West are among
students listed on the honor roll
of Stetson University, DeLand.
according to information released
this week by university officials.
They are Jessie Jane Gibson
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. H. A.
Gibson. and Lavinia Ricketts,,
daughter of Mrs. Gertrude w.
ricketts,. This recognition sight
flies an exceptionally high grade
of scholarship.