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WANTED

WANTED--Small furnished apart ment. Call Room 407, Gastineau Hotel.
 SINGLE PERSON. desires small furnished apartment. Excellent references. Phone 106, daytime. WASHING MACHINE gently needed Black 705. WANTED - Electric washing ma chine. Phone Douglas 335. WANTED-Steady job in Juneau. I am 34 years old and am me chemically inclined, but will take anything. Write F. Jacobs, 1923 E. Burnside St., Portland, IA, Oregon.
 OPERATIONS Work guaranteed Pearl Prouty Phone Blue 470. WANTED-Male Cocker Spaniel, six weeks old, brown or red. Also canary, for delivery arch 10. Phone 569
 WANTED TO SUBLET-Apartmen for two or three months. Contact Ben A. McManus, Chief Clerk, House. Phone 866.
 LOST AND FOUND LOST-Plaid silk folding umbrella. Phone 21
 FOUND-Ladys ring. Owner may have same by identifying and paying for this adv.i ~ MISCELLANEOUS PIANOS RENTED-Tuned. Ander- son Shop.
 THE FIXIT SHOP-General light repair work. Phone 567. GUARANTEED Realistic perma- ment. s7.o0 Paper Curls, $1 up. Lola Bea-ty Shop Phone 20. 3l5 Decker Way
 IF you have empty rooms or apts. for desirable people. inform the Gastineau Hotel.
 GET RIGHT TOT the spring and Summer Season. The Mineral Baths at Warm Springs Bay will put you in Tip-Top Shape. Clean, Furnished cabins. Groceries, Liquors and To- baccos.
 ONEILL & BENTON,
 Baranof, Alaska
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FOR SALE-1928 Model A Ford. Good running condition. Contact Jorgensens Motor Go.
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FoReSALE-Troller 'Dlana'-33 it. long, 81s it. beam, fully equipped. Chrysler Crown marine engine, first class condition. See Harbor Master.
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FOR SALE-Highchair. Phone Blue 37O.
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WANT ADS
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Baby Crib and Col iapsible Baby Carriage. No. 12, Johnson Apts.
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WANTED-Steady job in Juneau. I am 34 years old and am me- chemically inclined, but will take anything. Write F. Jacobs, 1923 E. Burnside St., Portland, IA, Oregon.
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WANTED--Small furnished apart ment. Call Room 407, Gastineau Hotel
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MISCELLANEOUS

PIANOS RENTED-Tuned. Ander. son Shop.
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LOST AND FOUND

LOST-Plaid silk folding umbrella Phone 21.
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WANTED TO SUBLET-Apartment for two or three months. Contact Ben A. McManus, Chief Clerk, House. Phone 866.
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WANTED-Male Cocker Spaniel, six weeks old, brown or red. Also canary, for delivery arch TO- Phone 569.
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IF you have empty rooms or apts. for desirable people, inform the GaStineau Hotel.
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GUARANTEED Realistic perma- ment. $7.o0 Paper Curls, $1 up. Lola Bea-ty Shop Phone 20. 315 Decker Way
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WANTED - Electric washing ma chine. Phone Douglas 335.
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FOUND-Ladys ring. Owner may have same by identifying and paying for this adv. ~
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SINGLE PERSON desires small furnished apartment. Excellent references. Phone 106, daytime.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-11
OUR NAVY'S TRIUMPH

The Japanese Navy, once the third
strongest in the world, which swarmed over
the waters of the Far East like plague Of
locusts when the war began, now faces an
inglorious demise.
The only victories credited to the Navy
of Imperial Japan occurred in the early
days of the struggle when overwhelming
Japanese cut gallant, but fighting, detach-
ments. In the Battle of the Coral Sea and
despite its considerable superiority in the
Pacific the japanese fleet has suffered
severe and repeated reverses. Losses were
particularly heavy in the Battle of Midway
and the naval engagements adjacent to the
Philippine Islands.
While the japanese Fleet was being
mauled, the American Fleet was increasing
in strength monthly, and today the battered
remnants of the enemy fleet desperately
seek to avoid destruction by hiding ignomi-
niously in the home waters of the Empire.
The parade of the American and Brit
ish warships along the Eastern coast of the
japanese islands, which began several
weeks ago, continues The Fleet arm has
delivered damaging and devastating blows
upon the remaining warships of the Japan
csc and, in the words of one naval official
what remains of the japanese Fleet could
'be disposed of by our destroyers.
1t is quite possible that the people of
this country do not yet appreciate the mag
nitude of the victory scored by American
warships in the Pacific. In our pride over
present-day achievements, we are prone to
forget the many dangerous months during
which our Navy operated in the Pacific
with strength considerably inferior to that
available to the enemy. What we lacked in
waships was compensated by the skill and
courage of our sailors, not only at Midway,
but in the Solomons and at other places.
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cKEs AND COAL

sexrviaFy of the Interior Harold l..
tkes has been eonspicaously on top OF the
f..sl $40 uaai og che time since the begin
asnw "a lhs waT. Iekss says that the United
Nsmlaa i hshind 81 million tons of produc-
tan. ana BE- has been telling the Army to
@aks = special ruling 30 Through 10000
esa mlmeFs. w. warns the Army that the
eAsAmsi winsHF of the year 10 American
eemes msy limit war plants to a 4-day
mesA
notwithstanding all the terrible short
go - sssal a horne Ickes insists on shipping
IS nslliion tans of coal To- Europe and he
la.ld ganRFsss q few days ago that unless
tkss eaal Il shipped overseas that, I'VE must
sspesi either rioting, bloodshed and de-
ssasgiun IL ~ semblance of orderly Gov
esNmsai Per the sake Of American men
aa8.aH o. be- returned from Europe, this
assi b. aens. iekes says. or they will find
sheassxlsss Fighting another war.
tafaasislsnt Ickes evidently is trying to
.aFss ths Army to pat the coal miners who
see ia ms service la a preferred class so
$50 thet eaa dig coal for Europe. At the
ssms tiHe be- admits that the shortage at
hsms b ~ great that the American people
go - shlssring aud freezing this coming
ml@fef.
Il thsFe h asa ounce OF sense in the
iskrs plan q will not be discovered by the
asefaks reader III fact {. j. Potter, Deputy
as1isa Peel Administrator. told a Committee
~ teaNfeaa Europeans do not need all that
fsei ~ ssid thas the solution of Europe's
heaisnE pFobiem can be Strengthened out.
as thefs i vaough available lumber that
eeeAa b. shipped In from an occupied area
ip isfaleh AL the fuel that was needed in
k@EaFe. w. SAYS the Allies could get the
sse@m ~" Ia Europe. Potter opposes send
.as eaI coal e. Europe bat. IL reason rules
s~@HH = aiil--theEe will undoubtedly be
Flsnlg 81 f8ei In the way OF coal and lumber
a. tahs cars If The needs Of both the United
Ns@fss ana the captured European areas.
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TOO|LA!.TE TO
CLASSIFY
BY RUSSELL KAY

a flock of friendly mosquitoes all
over the place tryin' to be helf-
full.
We try trollin' for awhile, but
that was no go for you couldn't
get your spoon ten feet behind
your boat before you would start
harVestin' mess of grass. The
whole blamed bay was lousy with
the stuff, it looked like somebody
had moved the lawn and then
failed to rake it.
| So we decide we'll go inshore
and try casting for trout. l don't
know whether you ever tried
casting with concrete mixer for
a reel or not but l can tell you
it will bring out the choicest pro-
family imaginable. About every
cast I'd get grand and glorious
back-lash and before 1 could get
the line Strengthened out the, bait
would drift around and get tangl-
ed with the propeller.
: After an hour or so of this.
having succeeded in breaking two
rods and losing our anchor, we
decided to quit foolin' round and
settle down for a spell of old
fashioned fishing with cut bait
and hand lines. So we moved
over in the channel. Being what
the better outdoor magazines
term a sportsman. l had always
sneered at this kind of angling.
i was one of these smart guys
that went for the game fish.
But Id promised John a days
fishin' and by Allah, I'd see that
he got it even if we were reduced
to going after them with goggles
and a spear.
To start with we tied up to the
bridge with the tide swirling be-
meath it and as fast as we could
rig up our lines with bait, hook
and sinker and get 'em to the
bottom, they would wrap them
selves affectionately around the
plllng. Now and then, if sheer
luck and aWkWardness enabled
you to keep your line clear of the
iplling, you would Re rewarded
with gentle tugs on your bait,
which served to signify that a
crab or cat fish had the proper
sense of appreciation and would
WELCOME a second helping.
! And this just goes on and on
While you sit in a bouncing boat
land unsuspectingly accumulate
sunshine until you look and feel
like a broiled Key West crawfish
This column isn't copyrighted
and the Chamber of Commerce is
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DON'T Willy THE BRUTE

Peace is so near at hand it may have
come by the time this editorial appears in
print, but whether or not that is the case
what we have to say still will be pertinent.
AS The Citizen has remarked good
many times, it is difficult for us to under
stand the Japanese mind, and apparently
it is just as difficult for the Japs to under
stand ours.
However, they evidently have awak-
ened to, one fact about our way of viewing
things, and that is that we can, not be fooled
by them.
While broadcasters over Radio Tokyo,
on several occasions, were barking about
the 'inhuman" atomic bomb and about its
being violation of international law, we
wondered if they thought we had forgotten
their dastardly attack on us at Peal Harbor.
Did they think that it was in accord
ance with international law for them to
backstab country with which they were
at peace? Did they think that we had for
gotten that they had sent plenipotentiaries
to Washington to lull us to sleep while they
were preparing to make bombing attack
that killed several thousand Americans and
sunk many of our ships?
That, then, was in accordance with in
ternational law, with the Japs on the giving
END, but now that we are at war it is viola
ton of that law to use the atomic bomb,
with theiJaps on the receiving end! e
La Foolish, foolish, is the American who
bemoanslthe fate that has befallen the Jap.
They may be sure that our fate would have
been far worse, judging by the japanese
atrocities among the Chinese, particularly
their women and children, and the inhuman
way in which they treated our prisoners,
subjecting many of them to slow starvation.
Sympathy for the Japs is wasted. They
sowed the harvest that they are reaping
today. They started out on conquest of
worldwide dimensions, and, to attain their
goal resorted to barbarities that turned the
stomachs of civilized men and women.
To call the Jap brute is vilification
of the brute The Jap is something far
worse, something that must be eradicated
from the world before we can have a last
ing peace.
,,s..>FinH ly. should you detect the least
warmth Sf sympathy in your system for the
Japs, ju$t recall what they did to thousands
of women in China-put them to the sword
after they had violated them.
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ried look on his aunt's face, "a
position like that would tie me to
the store for life, and have other
plans. I'm going away"
LIE eyed her levelly for mo-
IL ment, then he said quickly"
I think a store is the dullest place
in the world. It doesn't interest
me in the least. Nothing Of any
Importance ever happens in a
store-people just 60 on and on,
mechanically, all the days of their
life. Work; get old; and then take
their pensions. Nothing ever hap
pens in a store Duchess, and
that's the Gods truth. I'll have
none of it."
'They need you at the store,
Christopher. They want your
young ideas, and Humbert man.
agement again. You'll do all
right, Boy" The old eyes misted
suddenly.
AT the rate people try to chart
my existence around this town
because my name happens to be
Humbert, they leave me only one
choice-and that is to get away
from it ALL" Christopher ran his
hands impatiently through his
thick brown hair, then tossed
back his head defiantly with a
quick gesture that made the
Duchess catch her breath sharply.
She had seen her father do ex-
actly the same thing whenever he
was puzzled or very intent on
making one of his famous light
ming decisions. Then Christopher
iammed his hands deep into his
coat pockets, and leaning against
the side Of the doorway. chanted
solemnly: p.
DUTY, obligation, success, per-
severance, patience, making my
time count. Good Lord! Pause
for station Identification, it's
Grandfather speaking! With a
world on fire, Pm supposed to
stay home and join the counter
hoppers-no dice, Duchess! Pm
going where things happen--and
happen faSt--and I'm on my way
noW!"
THE telephone on the library
l. table filled the room with its
sudden, insistent ring. It rang
three times before Christopher
could get across the library to
answer it.
"Mr. Humbert," a vibrant fem
mine voice, low and urgent, came
over the wire. 'This is Brenda
Blair speaking. That shipment of
mink. expected in furs today has
been lost in the store. I thought
you might be able to help me 10
cate it." 'ff } ~
To.he eentinued
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Chapter 2
[By RUFUS HEED

SlA0FkGA
MO, you are not through with
l the store, Christopher" there
was an unrelenting determination
in her voice that he instinctively
resented. 1.-The time has come for
you to take up your responsible
tiles there, just as your father
and grandfather did before you
-
.We'll not 60 into family his
tory, either" Christopher inter-
rupted irritably, I'm fed up with
that too-if you must know. I'll
decide what my responsibilities
are and what / shall do with
them. I'm through letting other
people run my life"
Two pairs of brown eyes stared
at each other across the length or
the room. They were curiously
alike-the shrewd old eyes and
the resentful young eyes. Some
thing aloof and sure and stubborn
marked the rather striking fam
lily resemblance between these
two. Genevieve Humbert sighed
and then deliberately ended one
row of knitting and started an
other. Christopher knew she had
something more to say. He'd have
to hear it some time, he might as
well stay and take it now--noth-
ing stopped the Duchess once she
got on the beam.
81 attended the stockholders
meeting at the store this morn
ing" the Duchess said firmly.
You should have been there. They
sent out call for you, but no one
could find you. All the officers
were reelected and a new vice.
president and general merchan-
disc manager named"
They'd have to do that. White
has gone into the Navy. They have
to have a man to fill his place"
,CUDDENLY the Duchess dropped
~ her knitting and leaned for
ward, with a single eager gesture.
When she spoke there was an
overtone of excitement in her
voice that vaguely bothered him.
II want to be the first to con-
graduate you, Christopher. They
elected you first vice-president
and general merchandise mana
ger. I have hoped for this for a
long, long time"
'Me-they elected ME-general
merchandise manager" Christie
pher stared at her in blank
amazement. "Why that's impos-
siblep Sheer incredibly crowd
ed out every other consideration,
as he looked at her in bewildered
silence. The thing was unreal,
fantastic. They never put young
men in position like that. and he
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suppose any guy dumb enough
to trysand take a two weeks vaca-
ton all in one day ought to feel
the way 1 do this morning. Any
how I am living picture of what
the insurance policies term IAN
act of Cod, which is just another
way of saying that when any,
thing like that happens to you it
is your own hard luck.
In the days before Pearl Harbor
I used to have a little boat and
spent lot of time chasing fish
around Tampa Bay but with the
coming of rationed gas and re-
stricted areas, l sold it and
thought I had given up fishing for
the duration. ga
l was dom all right until Uncle
John comes down from New
Jersey and nothing to do, he's
gotta go fishin He is the kind Of
a guy that just naturally talks,
eats, sleeps and dreams fish. l
resisted him as long as l could,
but he got the wife on his side.
She says, "Why don't you take
John. out on the bay, it'll do you
good" Well, Johns fishin' tackle
consists of one hair-lipped mouse
faced minnow. and a couple of
rusty hooks, so I climb up in the
attic and get my assortment of
rods, reels, tackle boxes and what
have you. 1t is really amazing
what a helluva mess a COB of
Fishing tackle can get itself into
when left alone in hot attic for
two or three years. The rods were
warped, the reels frozen and the
lines rotten.
Oh we'll, / would just go down
to the tackle shop and get a
couple of new rods and reels and
whatever else we might need.
11lC guy DCll1lIO IIlC (OOIllSI w cS
just about as helpful as the aver
age butcher. The only kind OF
rod you can buy nowadays is one
that you wear in a holster and a
reel is a condition you acquire in
a saloon.
Well, 1 patch up my old stuff
the best l can, arrange for a boat
and John and l set out to give
the unsuspecting fish a tough day
Just why a guy thinks he has to
get up before daylight to go fish
in I've never been able to figure
out, but that seems 10 be rule
one so, of course, we observed it.
I've gone bail fer a lot of folks
in my time but goin' bail for a
tboat is something else again, es-
pecially at the crack of dawn with
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THE LOW DOWN
HICKORY GROVE

Won know, if / was to PICK
somebody that I could feel most
sorry for. / kinda think, today,
that it would be the pickets
walking up and down outside Oh
stores. and shops, etc. Husky fell
lows--not working-but looking
kinda sheepish. Put on the picket
line by a guy who will hold 10
his nice soft job even II the PIC
ket don't work, or eats scanty.
These fellows walkin up ana
down have just been out-taikeo
and out-smarted. That is why !
feel sorry for them. Just why
they should be sucker Tor the
wise-guys bossing labor, is hard
to savvy. Maybe they had a
teacher in the grade school who
never told 'em any stories by
AEsop. Maybe their mama and
papa didn't see to it that they
did their home work. 1t is cinch
that their Mayflower blood has
thinned.
But in conclusion, am still
sorry for the pickets. And if any
one of them should cast an eye
over this essay, 1 say to him,
buddy, you " ont get to first base
by running the boss business
and also, you might have a busi-
ness of your own some time.
It is never too late to be some
body-in America.
Yours with the low down,
10 SIERRA
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Ihat Sh1pmeTtot nl1nRs ex-
pected today has been Iost." "
was just twenty-six. At last he
said in a lew voice, 81 can't quail
ify for a position like that"
"You qualified all right with
the stockholders" the Duchess re-
joined calmly.
For the first time that evening,
Christopher smiled. His aunt was
one of the stores largest stock
holders. So her .'hopes" had prob
ably been deciding factor in the
surprising and unprecedented &C
ton taken that morning.
"But my dear Duchess" Chris
TOPPER insisted. 81 am thinking of
the hard boiled gentlemen on our
board. They'd never vote a doll
lar for anything without a writ
ten guarantee of five coming back!
No, it's all cock-eyed. 1t doesn't
make sense. Besides" he added
more soberly, as he saw the wor-
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Provide For Buffet p,
Service After War

CHICAGO, Aug. II. - FNS)
A ''smorgasbord of the rails" pro-
viding buffet service with com
Portable lounge Accommodations is
planned for postwar railway
travel, according to engineers of
the Pullman-Standard Car Man
ufacturing Co.
The new type grille room car
is not a substitute for the diner
but rather a supplement. Instead
of choice of regular dinners, the
new car will offer kind of smor-
gasbord, with hot and cold dishes.
1t will have a seating capacity of
so against the old type diners 48.
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LEGALS

INVITATION FOR BIDS
SALE OF CONDEMNED PROPERTY
BOARD of Public Instruction.
Monroe County, Florida,
Office of the Superintendent. =
, County of Monroe, County Court
House,
Key West, Florida.
SEALED BIDS.
subject to the conditions contained
herein, will be received at the above
address until $50 p. NJ, E.W.T.,
August 2S, 1945. and then publicly
opened, for the sale of Two CD old
school buses as described below ;
said sale for this condemned pro-
perry authorized by the Board of
Public instruction of Monroe County.
Florida, at their regular meeting
held in the Office of the County
Superintendent, County Court House
August 8, 1945:
ID Dodge Chassis with Bus body
used for school purposes, Engine No.
Ti3-6494 - Model KH33V - Cyl. O.
Serial No. S23S5S6 - Year of Make
1885. (This equipment can be seen
at the premises of John Curry, Rock
HarbDr, Florida.)
% Ford Chassis with Bus body
used for school purposes. Engine No.
RBLS42007Se5 - Model 81 - Cyl. 8
Year of Make 1885. Crhis equipment
can be seen at the Old Brick Garage.
Simonton and Greene Streets, Key
West, Elorida) ..,..
Interested parties are requested
to inspect either or both of these
two pieces of equipment before
submitting bids thereon; this being
condemned equipment and cannot be
used again for its original purpose
namely, school buses, and is being
offered for sale as junked property
Bids shall be placed in an envel-
Ope marked for identification, and
sealed. then placed in another envel-
Ope and addressed to the Board al
Public Instruction, Monroe County
Key WHIST, Fla. The Board reserves
the right to reject or accept any or
all bids, and to waive any fOrmali-
ties.
BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRCC-
TION OF MONROE COUNTY
FLORIDA.
BY: J. Carlyle Roberts
Chairman
aug. 1l-lS-25, 1915
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CT RECEIVERS WALLET LOST
IN EUROPE

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Pfc.
Merlin E. Ogg, now home on a
45-day furlough, lost his wallet
containing cash, while crossing
Belgium and France. Recently,
he received letter from a Chap
lain that the wallet and money
had been found and We're being
returned to him here.