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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28
sen. PEPPER TO
TALK BEFORE PTA
GOV. CALDWELL AND MANY
OTHERS TO BE HEARD AT
DAYToNA BEACH

Senator Claude Pepper
will speak at the opening
session of the Florida Con-
gress of Parents and Teach
ers' twenty-second annual
convention Nov. 6-8 in Day
tona Beach at the Princess
Issena hotel, according to
plans made by the program
committee of which Mrs.
Walter H. Beckham of Mi
ami is chairman.
Othar speakers scheduled tc
appear are Governor Millaro
Caldwell, Mrs. L. w. Hughes, ma
tional PTA first vice-president OF
Arlington, Tenn; DR.. and Mrs
Garry Cleveland Myers, rof Chi
cago, ILL.,; Dr., Colin English, sul
perintendent Of public instruction
of Florida, and Mrs. Beckham.
All topics will relate to home
problems under the theme Unit
ed We Build. At the banquet
for which Mrs. Edith Mcbride
Cameron, head of women's activi.
ties at the University of Florida
will serve as POSTMASTER, the
theme, Keys To Tomorrow, will
be used. .s.....
DR.. Dora Skipper, second vice.
president of the state PTA, will
present several leading educators
during a panel discussion of ed,
ucation.
Volusia County Council headed
by Mrs. Seward Lambright oil
Daytona Beach will entertain al
dinner for the executive board
members who will meet the day
preceding the convention.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28
Unemployment In
Monroe County Is -
At Very Low Rate

Unemployment still is at a low
ebb in Monroe County, according
to figures released by Carl B.
Smith, chairman of the Florida
Industrial Commission. .
No one in Monroe County re-
ceived hnemploymerS aompen-
sation payments during the week
of August Is to August 10, Chair
man Smith said. This would in
dictate that all eligible covered
workers in this county who are
seeking work had found suitable
jobs. In order to qualify for un-
employment compensation, the
claimant must apply for work
and must accept any suitable
job offered.
Qualified claimants in Florida
totaling 1,138, received payments
amounting to $l5,8l5.00 during
the week. Of these, 436 were
male and 702 were female. A
total of $547.50 was aslo paid to
40 Florida claimants now resid-
ing in other states. The total
amount paid out was 6,362.50.
The unemployment is due
chiefly to the seasonal closing
down of citrus packing and can
ming plants and to cut backs in
war contracts.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28
EXPECT CUT in
INCOME TAXES
INDIVIDUAL TAKES WILL
PROBABLY BE CUT
TWENTY PERCENT
tRy As..ciat.s Pre.s,

WASHINGTON, Aug. %.
Individual income taxes in
the United States probably
will be cut 20 percent next
year, Representative Harold
Knutson, ranking Republi-
can member of the house
ways and means committee,
said today.
He believed the govern
ment should be able to hold
the national debt, now APP
proximately 1893, 100000
600; below the present cell
ing of 100000, 100000.
IA He said, however, that he
thought it would be necessary to
Keep pricesl and wages up near
present t'le1els TO, favoid deficit
financing in the postwar iperiodet
Excess Profits Talk Tol Erfa6dE
Knutson said the excess profits
tax on corporations should end
by next January /.
, He also issued a statement ex-
pressing hope that the ways and
means committee would ''recog-
nize' that the payments to be
made in 1946---that means the
payment of 1915 corporation tax
es and payments on 1916 income
for individuals under our pay-as-
you-go program--can speed up
or retafd the return of a pros
porous peace-time economy"
That statement suggested Knut-
son might favor retroactive tax
relief for business on 1945 taxes
payable next year, ~
when we. consider corporate
taxes we must keep in mind that
payments in 1916 must be related
to providing jobs in private in
dustry and encouraging new in
dustry to help take up any labor
slack" he said.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28
49, ~ 50. ~ 4

has aggravated food shortages.
Black markets are rife. Arab
workers, earning an average of
two dollars a day, pay a dollar
pound for wheat floor en- which
the ceiling price is six cents.
Meat is as good as rationed
now. The coal shortage is dire.
THE British have sent some, but
the French say it is of such poor
quality it has ruined locomotives
and power stations. The United
States has sent some tractors to
meet the critical shortage of farm
implements.
The French have taken full
control over civilian travel, re-
quiring visas. Ten thousand au-
tomobiles are licensed, as COM
pared with 10000 ten years ago.
All kinds of heavy industrial
equipment is sorely needed.
Algeria, planning 1O0-milc
ripe line to feed water into Oran,
has ordered $1,200,000 worth of
Continued on Page Four)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28
Both Covet Rich Contin-
entail Bulge; Peace En-
forced Since l9O4-'O5;
Issues
BY RUSSELL BRINES
Associated Press War Corr
respondent

| lSokOAi0Niit
The natural enemies" of
, Asia-Russia and Japan
| have glared at each other for
40 years across the rich con-
tinental bulge which both
covet.
! Since the Russo-Japanese
| war of 19O4-'O5, peace has
been enforced between them
by practical considerations
and a balance of power made
more precarious by preoccu-
patton elsewhere. That Off
cial peace has been broken
in the past Is years by an
endless series of border
skirmishes, climaxed by
smaIl-scale undeclared war
in 1889.
The issues between them
are a qualification of hatred,
fear, revenge, mistrust. They
stem from the unfinished
business" of the Russo-Jap-
anese conflict and the events
which produced it. Each
subsequent development Of
belligerent history between
them has made the day Df
reckoning more certain.
During the past five years,
official Russo-Japanese re-
lations were smoothed BY
tongue-in-cheek diplomacy
which kept growing hostili-
ty from reaching surface
manifestation. The last of
these diplomatic dykes cruln-
-bledin April. ..-.-es.s.s...-.---fsi
Moscow, with ironic correct
ness, denounced the neutrality
pact of 194l. The official reason
was that the agreement had lost
its, meaning by the continued
warfare of each principal against
the others allies.
The Russians, however, actual
ly were telling Japan that their
successes in Europe had minime
lied the one time catastrophe
threat of japanese stab through
Siberia. supplemented by other
statements and developments, the
denunciation was viewed as a
warning that the Soviets were
getting set for possible participa-
ton in the Pacific conflict.
The neutrality pact in itself was
no protection against sudden at
tack. Both powers prefer sure,
swift strokes in war. But it
symbolized the delicacy of their
peace, dictated by pressing de-
mands on other war and diplo-
matte fronts. +
j., Until the end of 1899, Japan's
toward the lands held or sought
Surge toward empire was directed
by Russia. The program was sold
to the Japanese people largely
as a battle of self-defense" to
eliminate. the Russian menace. ,
Step by step, with power, guile
and ruthless exploitation of Rus
sian weaknesses the Japanese
drove across the northeastern
continent to the Amur river. The
ultimate goal was Siberia.
The japanese made their most
determined bid for that incred-
IDLY rich area during the Allied
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28
NORTH AFRICA TURNED
i WHOLLY BACK. TO DE
GAULLE'S FRANCE; NO
t,t"d
FOOD THERE NOW al
BY Rc5TaT WILSON

Alp Newsf"atuT-s
PARIS, Aug. 28.-North
Africa, the battlefield where
three years ago American
troops handed the first body
blow to the German Army,
now is Frances empty bread
basket.
The colonial possession
where Roosevelt, Churchill
and Stain held a dramatic
meeting, and where Eisen-
hover. first took the Wehr-
macht's measure, has now
been turned wholly back to
France.
Before the war North. AT
ricaepoured wheat, wines,
fruits and phosphate across
the Mediterranean into met
1ropolitah" Fracne,,l but now it
eagerly accepts what wheat
and sugar France can spare.
Colonial officials are q grim
about the conditions.
The planes that drone
over North Africa's wastes
are mostly French now, but
still remaining are a few US.
and British troops, chiefly
Air Transport Command per-
sonnet at Casablanca, Oran
and Algiers, for the area re-
mains a link in Allied COM
munications.
All ports are under French
naval control.
Deadly Drought
The worst drought in so years
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28
Advance American Forces Il
Make Ready For Arrival /.
Of Many Troops In Tokyo
United States Occupa-
ton Troops Making
Ready To Move In On
Thursday

MANILA, Aug. 2S.-Ad.
vance contingents of Ameri.
can forces in 48 transport
planes, that landed ON At.
sugi airfield 10 miles west
Of Tokyo 10 hours ago, are
preparing for Americans sig
nals and landing procedures,
while engineers in the group
are expanding the airifeld
for the arrival Thursday of
thousands of American oc-
eupation troops.
thursdays arrivals will
include General Macarthur
and his staff.
Sol. John III. Lackey, Jr.,
Nor ok, Va, commander
of the 317th troop carrier
group, piloted the lead
plane.
Fleet In Readiness
Col. Charles Tench took
over the task of supervising
Japanese preparations as
previously detailed by the
document handed the Jap
anese emissaries in Manila
10 days ago.
The Allied fleet at battle
stations, ready to crush any
attempt at treacheEy, waited
only for mine sweepers to
finish their task before
steaming triumphantly into
Tokyo bay. 81:
Macarthur announced to-
day that one, day after his
arrival at Atsugi, the United
States Eighth Army veterans
of the long Philippines cam
paign, will begin swarming
ashore at Yokohama, To-
kyo's port, and at Tateyama-
HOBO on the peninsula guard
ing the eastern entrance to
Tokyo bay.
Their way will be secured
by 10000 Marines and Blue
jackets, who will seize con-
troll of the bays huge naval
base of Yokosuka and three
adjacent island fortresses
Thursday while at least T.
500 airbOrne troops are ar
irving at Atsugi.
us. Troops Guarded
Associated Press, Core
spondent Murlin Spencer re-
ported from aboard a troop
transport that ships, carry
ing American and British oc-
cupation forces entered Sa-
gami bay behind the war
ships and anchored nearby
The japanese will affiS
their signatures to the act OF
surrender in Tokyo bay
aboard the battleship Mis-
souri, September 2 and one
day later all the emperor's
far-flung armies will have
surrendered or will be in the
process of capitulation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28

G.. S. Kennedy, meteorolo-
.gist in charge ofp the Key
NV est Weather. Bureau, said
this afternoon that his latest
advisory, received at 10
o'clock this morning, was
that the. Texas hurricane
having passed inland, was
diminishing in intensity.
With the center of the hur-
ricane that had dashed the
Texas coast for more than
two days. travelling in a
northeasterly dire ction ,
which would have brought
it directly to Houston, veer-
ing to north-northwest.
Houston escaped the full
force of the storm.
The city was battened down,
and had taken every other pre-
caution, expecting hurricane
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28
i!liit|lAppIOpIiadOn Approved
Inland Waterway Route From
Miami To Key West AssuTu
HURRICANE PASSING OVER TEXAS
REPORTED Diminishing in FORCE

winds, ranging from IS to 100
miles an hour, but the change in
the direction of the hurricane
carried its center so miles west of
Houston, and the highest winds
experienced in that scity had -
velocity of so miles AM hour.
Cutting inland, the hurricane
has greatly diminished in force,
with gales ranging from SO to so
miles an hour. The Weather
Bureau in New Orleans said no
further advisories will be issued,
unless the storm shows a ten
dency to increase in force.
Houston experienced torrential
rains, as did other places in the
area of the storm. The center,
when last reported, was passing
over Sealy, Texas. so miles west
of Houston.
Officially, Mr.. Kennedy said,
wind attained a velocity of IS
miles an hour, and, unofficially
from 100 to lis miles. y
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28
Only Thing Necess
Now For Project
s4For Engineers To 81
L, Date To Begin Work

=. Everything is now ready,
including an appropriation
OF is$f, 1903, 900, which. has
been approved by the Presi-
dent, for the beginning OF
work on the inland water.
way from Miami TO key
West, Manager Stephen c.
Singleton, of the Chamber
Of Commerce, said today.
The only thing now neees-
snry for the project 10 get
underway 10 for army engi-
neers to set the date when
work will begin.
For five years, Mr.. Single
ton said. the Chamber OF
Commerce has been active In
advocating the. deepening OF
the channel between Miami
and Key West. He added
! that he had received much
assistance from j.. Hampton
! Moore, president Of the At
lantic Deeper Waterways
Association, and Represen-
tative Jacob Klein, OF New
Jersey. during the time he
was supporting a similar
movement i'm congress. the
deepening of the Raritan
: River to Trenton and thence
to the Delaware River.
Deepened In Stages
In the Miami-Key West
route, the government. many
years ago, deepened the
channel from Miami 10 Man
grove Bank, off Tavernier.
and, south of that point. the
Flagler interests dredged out
several channels as far south
as Bahia Honda while the
Florida East Coast Railway
Company's extension To Key
West was being constructed.
The channel from Miami
to Key West will be seven
feet deep, and from Miami 10
Jacksonville eight feet deep.
When those projects are
completed, the intracoastal
or inland waterway will ex-
tend from Key West as Tar
north as a part of New Jer-
sey to the Delaware River.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28

! Occupation of 1918. Only the
strongest pressure by third pow
ers succeeded in forcing the
withdrawal of, Nipponese forces
from regions which they attempt
! ed to rule and exploit as soon as
they landed. To conclude that
withdrawal the Soviets agreed to
ia 45-year lease of oil and coal
concessions in Russian owned
northern Sakhalin. island.
Expansion made Japan a con-
tinental empire with some of the
richest resources in Asia. 1t con-
solidated the domestic power of
the army clique now dominant.
When these iililitarists turned
their lconquering armies toward
southwestern Asia. they merely
liwere deferring, not abandoning,
the ultimate hope of capturing
Siberia. 81
8ut they fnosfffied sthe buster
ling arrogance with which, in the
days of their power, they dragged
concessions from the Soviets.
They had given the proud Rus
slams little chance to forget the
humiliation OF. 1905. The Treaty
iof Portsmouth, ending that con-
flict, became the legal basis for
subsequent Japanese exploitation
I, of such Soviet resources as fish
cries. Tokyo militarists openly
boosted of "r breaking Russian
POWER in Asia. -~,
The Soviets snapped back with
telling force in the 1889 border
was at Nomonhan. Their armor-
ed columns scored a convincing
victory on the Manchuria- Outer
Mongolia border. in three
months engagement which cost
70, 900 japanese casualties.
| But the japanese did not an
nounce that part of the bargain,
nor did they make any attempt
, to comply, unil Moscow sharply
brought it to world attention in
1914. The Japanese had temper+
lied, in hope of a German victory
over Russia. That gamble lost,
they were forced to accept a re-
vision of treaties by which the
. Soviets fully demonstrated their
new diplomatic ascendancy over
Tokyo.
The pendulum made it's final
reversal when the Russians broke
the German threat. Moscow was
about to be given one of the
greatest opportunities in history.
With the full weight of her allies
behind her. Russia could choose
Continued on Page Four)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28
SEVERAL CASES
HEARD in COURT
ALL DEFENDANTS ARRArcN.
ED PLEADED GUILTY
TO CHARGES

Four defendants entered
! pleas of guilty al a special
session of Criminal Court
this morning. Judge Thomas
LIS, Caro- presided.
One of the defendants
was sentenced to one year
in the county Jail, two fined
and the fourth given a sus-
pended sentence with a
warning to behave himself.
Orion Demeritt, Jr.. IS, plead
ed guilty to a charge of temper
arily using the property of
another without the. owners con-
sent. and was sentenced to 80
days in Jail by Judge Caro-, who
added that he would suspend the
sentence provided the defend
amt Paid costs of court and
agreed to behave himself. DEM,
eritt admitted taking an auto.
mobile and going joy riding in
it.
Walter E. Reinart, who went to
sleep on an Overseas Highway
bridge and was arrested by State
Road Patrolman S. iW. Walker on
"a charge OF obstructing traffic,
pleaded guilty and was fined SIS
and costs or so days in Jail.
Joseph Gibson, who struck
William Menendez on the head
with stick while at his bait
stand on Rest Beach, pleaded
guilty to aggravated assault and
was sentenced to serve one year
in the county Jail. Gibson is the
man, who, when arraigned before
Peace Justice Esquinaldo, said
he had taken "a notion" a year
ago not to work any more and
had stuck to his decision.
Eva Gene Ward, negress,
pleaded guilty to assault and bat
terry. and was sentenced to pay
fine of $40 and costs or serve
60 days in Jail. a..
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28
RUSSIA, JAPAN ARE NEUTRAL FOES
I WITH 4O-YEARs RECORD or HATE
MORE THANllOO,OOO
/ JAPANESE BURNED TO
DEATH ON MARCH 10

WASHINGTON. Aug. 2s.-
The twelfth attack by Super
fortresses on Tokyo. when 300.
planes dropped 1880 tons Of
fireboimbs. burned to death
more than 100000 japanese,
DR.. Lars p. Utilise. former
Danish minister to Tokyo.
said today. The raid occurred
on March TO-
Il shall never forget the at
tack Utilise said. "Incen-
diaries were scattered all
; evsrs the city and gale swept
the firef from house to house.
li;laFrona my window / looked
ldntot the 9roaring, fhckering
flames that sdevoureds houses
! snds trees and everything il
] their way.. That lnightomorS
! than, ! loo.ooo: Japanese cwert
burned to DEATH"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28
DEATH
OF CHARLES DOLL

Sebastian Cabrera, Jr., Is In
receipt of a telegram announe-
ing the death of Mrs. Cabrera's
father, Charles ii. Coll. Of
Quicksburg and New Market.
Va. yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Cabrera and daughter,
Miss Zeta Frances. are now In
Virginia to attend the funeral.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28
scARE-cATS SCARE BIRDS

JERSEYVILLE, Ill. - In order
10 discharge starlings which were
running his victory garden, Fred
Bosworth taught the family cat
90 spend most of its time there.
Neighbors adopted the idea, some
even using a leash to keep their
cats on the job.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-08-28
! WHAT HAPPENED in EUROPE
INFANTRY RAISES
; :, = \. AIR CORPS 1000
tny As-sr,a,-a rre..,

NEWTON, Mass.--Sgt. Ben
janlin NJ. Thomas came home
from Patton's Third Army
with this one:
From an infantryman oper-
ating in high terrain with a
walkie- talkie came a mes
sage:
This is the Air Force COM
ing in at LOCO feet.
Pack went the answer:
This is the Infantry COM
ing in. at 5000 feet. Get the
hell up where you belong"
Evening star., 1945-01-26

Two toiletries to help keep
hands. and complexion soft and
ounce bottle of Kinds Honey and
Almond Fragrance Cream and
25c 2k-ounce jar of Kinds
Complete Facial.
Evening star., 1945-01-26

Keep your hardwood and
linoleum floors cleaning
with this easy-to-apply
wax. Protects surfaces.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-11
MENTAL HOSPITAL TO
BE READY OCTOBER Is

Raleigh-State Senator Thorn
as O'Berry of Goldsboro, a mem
Der of the State hospitals board
of control, said here that the
states new mental hospital at
Camp Sutton would be ready to
receive patients by October Is.
Patients will be transferred
there from the Raleigh and Nor
canton hospitals, he said, and by
the first of next year the Sutton
hospital would be operating at
capacity.
eve should be able to relieve
the acute space shortage at the
Raleigh and Morganton units by
the first of the year, and be
ready to handle new patients at
both Sthese institutions,' OBerry
said. He added that no new pa
tients would be taken in at the
Sutton hospital. The space pro-
vided by the transfer of old pa
tients to Sutton will be used to
take care of new patients.
The Camp Sutton hospital was
leased from the army. Approx
mately 500 patients will be treat
ed there when the unit begins
operating at capacity.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-11
GENERAL NIMITZ is
GIVEN HERO'S WELCOME

Washington-The nations CAPT.
tai this week Numbered a well
done to Admiral Chester w. MINI
itz, who fashioned the worlds
greatest fleet from the shambles
OF Pearl Harbor and led it to vic
tory in Tokyo bay.
Humbly accepting a hero's well
come accorded by President Tru-
man, congress and cheering
crowd of more than 1000, 900, the
White-haired Texan warned that
never again must the nation be
caught unprepared.
81 pray that we pledge our
selves to remain strong in order
that we may continue to live as
free men," he said.
He reminded a joint session of
congress of the grim price paid
for appropriateness in this war
-"the men who will forever
sleep beneath the lonely palms of
uncounted Pacific isles, men who
will stand their eternal watch at
sea as long as time goes on
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-11
Review National World News During The Week

to put the screws on labor. During
the war, many of them will tell
you, they haven't been able to run
their own businesses-they have
had to put up with waste, inef-
ficiency and super mollycoddling
in order to keep the men oper-
ating their plans.
Labor leaders, on the other
hand, know that with certain COM
panies the men would still be get
ting starvation wages if it wasn't
for the organized insistence on
better conditions.
Both sides have strong cases
and can give vivid examples
to prove their point. But fair
minded, Unconditional analysis
will also show that there are
many labor leaders who do
not make excessive demands
and there are many industrial
leaders who would treat men
fairly, and pay the highest
wages they could, whether
their workers were organized
or whether they weren't.
In order to avoid conflict of
class against class and group
against group, we must try to con-
slider each case individually. We
must try to stop blaming all labor
for the sins of some Individual
members of their group and we
must avoid blaming all manage
ment for the sharp practices of a
few industrialists.
INDIVIDUALS varied
A woman who lives in the coun-
try visited Detroit. When she re-
turned she was asked at a local
club meeting to tell about her
trip. In telling of her experiences
she said, in a tone indicating that
she expected to shock her audi
ence, II met a man who was a
member of the United Automobile
Workers Union - and you know,
he was really a very nice fellow"
There are plenty of people who
don't have much contact with
industrial communities who think
that all union members wear
horns. But if they met a stable
group of workers they would I'M
doubtedly come to the conclusion
that unions, like all other organ
lied groups, include all types of
people and should not be judged
as group.
Similarly, the labOrer who
works in a factory where the
management seems to have
no interest in the welfare of
workers is apt to conclude
that all business management