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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28
Hodges First Arm, Striking Oul
Toward Capital OF
Germany
Hotel Assn. Approves
Advertising IBill''

The Key West Hotel Associa.
ton, through its president. Hugh
{. Hodge, has sent the following
letter to Representative Bernie
c. PaDy and TO Senator Janlt
A., Franklin Of this district
The Key West Hotel AssO.
citation. al its regular meeting
March 20th. resolved TO give
its whole-hesrded support TO-
ward the passage of the
State Advertising Bill that
was drawn by the Governors
Advertising corgmittee.
amended and adopted by the
Advertising Committee Of
The Florida State Chamber
Of Commerce.
We therefore respectfully
request thst you give this
bill vour enthusiastic support
at the coming session Of the
State Legislature which con
venes on Arril Ord.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28
SpearheadS OF Soviet
Troops Reported To
lie IS Miles From
Vienna


MOSCOW. March rs. -
fosar Russian armies are rae
tng toward the Czechoslo-
vakian and Austrian bord-
eFa, lodays eOmmunique an
noanced.
u said further that spear
heads OF Red troops are So
miles from Vienna and only
20 miles from the Austrian
border.
Russian forces have estab-
lished a bridgehead north
west of kuestrin. along the
Oder River, the report said,
and heavy fighting is now in
progress In that area.
The cOmmunique stated
that the Red air force is now
being use more extensively
and more effectively than
during any other time since
Germany's undeclared war
on Russia.
Prom the shores of the
Baltic TO the southeast of the
Russian line the Red airmen
are striking heavy blows at
German troop concentra-
ton lines without meeting
any opposition from, German
flyers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28

shortly before ii o'clock, and i'm
mediately his suspicion wa S
aroused. He went to. the school
house and ascertained that his
daughter was not in the school,
and he further learned that Will
liam E. Brown, sailor, who had
been stationed at the Boca Chica
air base. had left that morning
for Oklahoma, to which state he
had been transferred.
- The father Immediately report
cd the girls disappearance to
Sheriff Sawyer, who called up
the Miami police, It was assum-
Continued on Page Three
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28
ANONYMOUS TIRE PANEL

HAYS, Kan.-Whcn Ellis coun-
tvs entire rubber rat!oning panel
of five resigned because they OBJ
jccted to the abuse and insults
hcapcd Apon them by iratc appli-
Giants for tires, it was decided
that the names of the new panel
will not be published. They will
be addressed as "Mcssrs. Anony-
NOUS"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28
l'att0n's ThiFd AFmg
Driving Toward 49,
To EoTm A lunglian
With llusSian FoFts

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Army today y hesasa
straight foF Bssiin. ana Ca.
er@l Pataon's Amssisan -. 4
u driving in an saslsslN a..
reetion to foEm = imus ufs
with the Russians.
The Americas sesemlh 49,
the Freneh fasa. - thF
south, are aiso Foilinw alam
almost wishoui oppssilsaa
and the British ssxoaa. ths
Canadian FHss sd the
American Nsmah. - a.
north, are also maesttaa wah
success al aloam shs lsma
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afternoon that tee ls
Second IL omly goo miles
Berlin. the nearesi angu
OF the western Aillua. M
as has been reported
However, ass nN.m8a
entertained among mIH
experts that either fhs a
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28

Key West. Florida. has the
most equable climate In ths
country, with an average
range Of only IL FahFenhest
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28

Associated Press Day Wire
Service and AP Features
For So Years Devoted to the
Best Interests of Key West
Evening star., 1945-01-21

little to say and employees in actual
ity are frequently tied to their jobs
So what to do? Like Mr.. Chase
Mr.. Ruml concludes that there will
have to be better spirit in tie
future.
His view is that the coming age
will be one in which fresh emphasis
is put on individual freedom-and
individual responsibility. His own
emphasis is on the latter. The cit
Observation-Disclosures, consumers and
job holders-will have to give UP
their practice of merely resting on
the will of the governing powers and
take their share of the power-f,T
which end, he too observes, they
will need moral awakening. Busi-
ness will have to readjust itself but
the people will have to exert the
power. The private government OF
business, in Mr.. Rumls summing
up, is like the public government in
this respect-it exists by the con-
sent of the governed, and if the gov
erned lie down on the job nobody
except themselves can be blamed
for the consequences.
So we find the tycoon and The
radical agreeing that it is all our
fault. 1t is nice to know 50 exactly
where the blame belongs.
Evening star., 1945-01-21

They include two Of our National
Gallery's treasures: Gerard David's
Flight into Egypt" and Van der
Weyden's Portrait Of Lady," both
from the Mellon collection.
"a work Of art is misjudged." the
author says, unless 1t is seen on
its own terms-not in the terms of
other works of art" Consequently,
in a final short chapter on the
Flemish style Of painting, he in
terprets the civilization which pro-
duced it, the peoples and artists
attitudes toward a good life, material
and spiritual, toward the impor-
tance of the commonplace as con-
trasted with the Renaissance Ital-
ians' disregard of it.
Baron van der Elst has the knack
of vivid phrasing which results in
many quotable sentences and gives
his book marked reliability. He
conveys historic fact and esthetic
Evening star., 1945-01-21
Best Sellers
in w Washington
FICTION,

The Green Years, by A. j.
Cronin.
Forever Amber, by Kathleen
Winsor.
Green Dolphin Street, by
Elizabeth Goudge.
Earth and High Heaven, by
Gwethalyn Graham.
Immortal Wife, by Irving
Stone.
NONFICTION.
The Time for Decision, by
Sumner Welles.
The World of Washingto ton
Irving, by Van Wyck Brooks.
Guide to the Peace, edited by
Sumner WelleS.
Story of q Secret State, by
Jan Karski.
Anything Can Happen, by
George and Helen Papashvily.
This list is based on actual sales
In local bookstores during the past
week and is not to be considered an
index of popularity. Books highly in
demand are frequently reported "out
of stock" due to limited supplies. Rec
ords are not kept Of verbal requests.
Evening star., 1945-01-21
providingfor Unemployed
Workersin nthe Transition
By Richard A. Lester. INC
GralD-HiH;: $780,

GraD-Hil; $780,
Reviewed by HOWARD P. BAILEY.
Foreseeing the greatest threat to
our national economy as likely to
exist during the period of transi-
ton from war to peacetime economy,
Richard A. Lester, associate profess
sor of economics of Duke University,
has set down in this volume the
conclusions he has reached after an
exhaustive study of the situation he
believes must be faced in the months
Immediately following the cessation
of hostilities.
The survey was made under the
sponsorship of the Committee for
Economic Development and the book
written with the agreement that the
researcher should have complete
freedom in expressing his opinions
whether or not they coincide with
those of the committee.
A Planned Working Force.
DIR. Lester finds that it is a first
essential that national confidence
be maintained. that those who have
saved money for the purchase of
articles not available during the
period of war shortages put that
money to use. that those who have
lost employment have some income
to tide them over until jobs are
obtained, and that business stimu-
late the national morale by launch
ing Immediately into repair, altera-
ton and other such types of war
deferred activity to keep as many
on the payrolls as possible. He be-
lieves that when a plant or business
is in the process of conversion en-
ployers should, insofar as possible,
recruit a postconversion working
force, giving the unemployed they
intend to hire an exact date at
which employment will start.
Going rather fully into the ques-
ton of unemployment compensa-
ton, DR.. Lester found wide discrep-
ancies in the rate and duration of
benefits among the various States
and he believes that legislation to
set Nation wide standards Is urgent.
He suggests a ceiling of not more
than $40 per week to be paid during
unemployed periods not to exceed
26 weeks. Realizing that because of
the location of war industries, some
States might exhaust their reserves
more rapidly than others, he recon-
mends a Federal subsidy to such
States to tide them over until un-
employment taxes can wipe out the
deficit.
The book should prove valuable to
all concerned with maintaining ma
tional prosperity.
Evening star., 1945-01-21
The Last FIowering of
The Middle Ages
People and Painters
or Flanders
By Baron Joseph pan der Est
Doubleday, Doren & Co., Inc;
$780,
Reviewed by
FLORENCE s. BERGMAN.

FLORENCE s. BERGMAN.
Any likeness between our own
age and the 18th century is difficult
for most of us to discern. Yet
Baron van der Elst in his intro
duction to this engrossing study
of Flanders five centuries ago con-
siders the similarity amazing and
gives reasons for his contention
He is a diplomat by profession and
is Counsellor of the Embassy of Bel
gium: he is also an authority and
noted lecturer on the art of his
country.
Although presented as an art
book. this is a work of larger di-
mensions. Nearly half Of it deals
with the history of the freedom
loving Flemish people, their sociaI
life, rulers, pageantry: with the
good black earth in which theil
democratic civilization had its roots
with the rise of the towns and their
industrial prosperity: with the me-
diaeval guilds, which many Of us
assume were similar to our present
day labor unions but which hao
marked differences; with love and
the Importance of women; and with
religion.
Outstanding painters of the
period are considered in the second
half of the volume. Baron van del
Elst does not attempt to deal al
length with all Flemish masters
but introduces lesser artists in con.
nection with the leaders. Theil
work is illustrated in more thar
100 half-tone plates, 16 of which
are In color. These appear to b.
remarkably faithful reproductions
and the majority are full page
Evening star., 1945-01-21
IIH Hate Myself in
the Morning and
Summer in December

By Elliot Paul. Random
House. s2.50.)
Reviewed by CHARLES M. EGAN.
This double feature-billed on the
jacket as two complete murder
novels in one yolume'-Will add
nothing to the literary reputation
which THE Last Time I Saw Paris"
achieved for Elliot Paul.
AS a matter of fact, it's fortunate
that the book sells for $3.50. Widely
circulated at two bits a copy, it
might not only ruin Mr.. Paul's
reputation, but could easily do to
mystery stories what something did
to vaudeville not so many years ago.
"Ill Hate Myself in the Morning"
as its title might indicate, is the
more atrocious. Obviously, Mr.. Paul
is trying to Satirize whodunits, but
all he accomplishes is something
that is neither fish nor fowl. The
veneer of cleverness is too thin
even more SO than what might be
called the plot
This Is another tale about the do
ings of Homer Evans, featured ear
lier in such epics as THE Mysterious
Mickey Finn" Mayhem In B-Flat," +"
"Fracas in the Foothills" and Hug
ger-Mugger In the Louvre" 1t starts
with a murder aboard a Union Pa
cific streamliner just out Of Las
Vegas, and goes on from there.
There isn't natural, interesting
character In the whole synthetic
business. and any normal reader
will have hard time figuring out
who Is being kidded.
Summer in December" is q little
better. Mr.. Paul. who did so well In
borrowing his THE Last Time I Saw
Paris" title from Jerome Kern and
Oscar Hammerstein, might improve
this spy story by having the famous
song team set it to music.
The story deals with the Nazis'
infiltration in Chile in 1898, and
features, along with It's spies and
counterspies, group of flamenco
dancers, including Coralito. a min
iature Carmen. Hero of the piece Is
one Brett Rutledge, who has all the
virtues, but little else to keep a
reader from nodding.
Much Of the book sounds like a
travelogue, and one can't help being
a little dubious about the author in
that score. Undoubtedly Mr.. Paul
knows Paris, and he might know
Chile. But he can't know much
about Americas second city when
he puts the finger on a Pullman
porter In "I'll Hate Myself In the
Morning" and fixes his place of orr
gin as East Side Chicago" What
about Lake Michigan?
Still. maybe the author is just
kidding again. That's the trouble
with this volume, one never knows.
Evening star., 1945-01-21
Brief Reviews
THE WAR.

THE WAR.
The Air Forces Reader, edited
by Norman Carlisle. (Bobbs-Mer-
rill) A volume of selected papers
designed to give the reader full
picture of both the Army and Navy
Air Forces. Important.
The Forgotten Battlefield, by K.
Wierzynski, translated by Edmund
Or, illustrated by z. Czermanski.
(Roy) A Polish man of letters
writes the history of the German
invasion of his country. A trag-
icaly moving document.
Evening star., 1945-01-21

Stieff to write his book-"Unleash
the Dogs OF War"
The book is just that-it Is the
story Of dogs at war. How 1t Is pos
sible to turn household pets into
savage and efficient dogs Of war, and
harder yet, convert them back again,
after honorable discharge, to peace
full canine citizens is clearly told.
Simply. and with sympathetic
understanding of dogs, Mr.. Stieff
explains how the dogs are intro
duced to their handlers with whom
they will become an inseparable
part during their stay In the Army.
Herein lies the secret of Wardog
control, for the dog does the work
Of attack or administering aid. but
needs the orders and the timing
that the handler gives him. In
many ways the training of CT Fido
is not unlike the boot" training CT
Joe Is subjected to, for it includes
obstacle courses, mock enemy at
tacks and drill orders under fire.
Four Footed Fighters.
To make all this clear, Mr.. Stieff
has written an exciting story of two
four-footed fighters,
Murky and Cecil, recruited
from private life, to fight with as
much bravery and to bring as much
credit to the Army as the soldiers
with whom they helped rout Gen.
von Arnheim's forces in the North
campaign.
Mr.. Stieff writes of dogs without
sentimentalizing Such descriptions
as the dogs saving of their handlers
after a convoy ship sinking, attack
dogs flying with barred fangs at the
throat of the enemy and casualty
dogs, miraculously finding those
given up for lost, are unforgettable
scenes of the book, etched in SIM
pie descriptive style that strikingly
Evening star., 1945-01-21

ion that the conspirators, including
Marshal Petain, had agreed to sur
render even in advance of hostilities
One cannot read the work without
feeling, at least at times, that Mr.
Root has started real game. He is
the author of syndicated column,
'Backstage with the War;" and has
some years experience as 4 newspa-
per reporter in France, Denmark
and Sweden. His only other book,
oddly enough, is a work on Richard
Wagner, and he is a musician and
composer. He is also q cousin Of
the late Elihu Root.
Evening star., 1945-01-21
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Evening star., 1945-01-21


by Vichy in our own invasion of
North Africa. The Interpretation Is
that France, being a major power,
provided a clearer issue between
Fascism and democracy than any
other defeated country and that the
United States, launching her in
vasion of French territory, had the
chance--and duty-of making her
own stand unmistakably plain for
all the world to see. But by recog-
nizing Gen. Giraud and the Vichy-
tainted Admiral Darlan instead OF
democratic Gen. de Gaulle we
clouded the issue and cast doubt
as to our eventual aims into the
minds of the captive populations
everywhere. For this Mr.. Root holds
President Roosevelt and the State
, Department responsible and his
statement of his stand Is coucheo
in excoriating terms.
Diplomatic Fall Guys"
He considers the department
utterly out of touch with democracy
Its staff is made up, he says, OF
young men with nice manners and
a fear of people whose manners
perhaps are not quite SO nice. They
are natural "fan guys for diplo-
matte confidence men, in his view
AS for the President, the book rates
his course as inexplicable for the
head of democratic state. He has
sunk so low as to fatter Spain's
Franco, observes Mr.. Root, and he
wrote cajoling letters to Vichy's
Petain, he says. He embarrassed
Churchill and kept alive the men,
ory of appeasement in Stain. TIC
support these charges Mr.. Root
quotes facts and documents and if
they are not, as his title suggests
exactly secret" they have not been
gathered together and interpreted
in quite this way before.
The Darlan- Giraud Deal.
In describing the Darlan-G -Giraud
deal, Mr.. Root builds up a circum-
stantial case to the effect that the
Germans themselves let the gen.
eral get out of Koenigstein prison
and handed him over to collabora-
tionists with the understanding that
they were to sell him to the Amer
leans, thus getting their own man
in and keeping De Gaulle out. Be-
fore our forces arrived, he says
Vichymen in numbers shifted their
capital to Africa to profit by the
stabilization of the franc which fol-
lowed the invasion. They tripled
their fortunes on the transaction, he
estimates. Our statesmen, .he says
were suckers for about anything
they told them.
The section of Volume I which
treats of Frances fall is not so SEN
sational. The charge which it makes
of a Fascist conspiracy involving
Frenchmen high in the army, ir
finance and politics is old stuff by
now, but the book goes the full dis
tance in offering the authors opin-
Evening star., 1945-01-21

there, sheltered
by the betrayers,
it survived to
spread its poison
into the ranks
of the demo-
cratic Allies.
The major part
of the Secret
History's" Vol
ume 1 is given
over to a study
OF now france
was sold out to
her enemies, and
in Volume II the
emphasis is on
the nort nlaVed
Evening star., 1945-01-21
Reviewing he New Books
By Mary-Carfer Roberts
The Secret History of the
Wor-(T,vo Volumes)
By WauerIey Root. (Scribners:
$40


By WaperIey Root. (Scribners:
.$10.)
A book which Is called secret
history" usually presents a definite
body Of facts not previously avail
able to the public. And it usually
names the sources from which its
author learned those facts. This
book does neither. The great part
of the material which Waverley
Root brings forward as secret"
news concerning the war Is simply
incidental to the well-reported
course of events and will strike the
reader as being the sort of back
ground material which every news
paperman accumulates in the course
OF his work. Nor does Mr.. Root,
when he launches on such "secret"
report usually tell where he got his
information. He commonly names
his sources as his "informants" and
lets it 60 at that.
Just the same, he has written a
sensational book. His own outspok-
en- interpretations Of events and
conditions makes it so.
The two volumes, which add up
to 1900 pages, treat of the war up
to the assassination of Admiral
Darlan and the appointment of
Gen. Giraud to take his place as
high commissioner of French North
Africa. They are not a military
history. They are, rather, history
of the conflict between democracy
and fascism as it has been fought
out on the various fronts.
We Have Fascism. Too.
Under the head t''The War In
ASIA" for instance, we find chiefly
a discussion of the diplomatic con-
siderations which induced Japan to
enter the war. The fall of the
Philippines is barely mentioned and
the battle of the Solomons is briefly
referred to as a diversion" Taking
it for granted that everybody knows
about those events by now, MI.
Root occupies himself with examin-
ing the policies of the governments
involved, our own included. He az
rives at the conclusion that Fascism
is not a germ which infects the
enemy alone. We have it, too, he
says, and in a serious measure.
Unlike other writer's who have
undertaken exposes of the same sort,
however, he does not isolate the
germ in the various groups which
consciously aim at propagating
Fascistic ideas. His charge is that
the plague spot is in our own Gov
ernment, most particularly in the
State Department.
The Fate of France.
The great drama of the war, as
he sees it, has been around the fate
of France. There Fascism caused
the betrayal of a major power and
Evening star., 1945-01-21

the physical standards of the war
dog reception and training center at
Front Royal, Va, proved himself a
hero on Guam, when his growls put
the marines on the alert in time to
discover 10-man Jap patrol that
had sneaked through the lines. The
marines did the rest of the work.
Exploits like this inspired Frederick
Evening star., 1945-01-21
Unleash the Dogs of War
By Frederick P. Stief. Robert

i. By Freder1ck p. Stie0. lRobert
Mcbride & Co.: $780,
Reviewed by RUTH DEAN.
Among the marine casualties re-
Gently reported was wardog Bunkie
dead from combat exhaustion.
The little German shepherd who was
almost too small to measure up to
Evening star., 1945-01-21

criticism in such a way that the
layman should be able to learn
them without losing a sense Of real
enjoyment in the text.
Evening star., 1945-01-21

&c. The accord seems to be
too s1Oeet." Beardsley Ruml
father OF the "pay-aS-you-
go" tarationJ and, at right,
Stuart Chase, economist and
author, of 10hom the ttUo are
"in perfect agreement - in
principle"
Evening star., 1945-01-21
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