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JOSE SALA. AGA
DIN ON TUESDAY

Jose Sail riga. ST. a.. deed
Tuesday night at Gas o'rlues o.
his residence. li02 9th street
Funcra. services arr blins bod ?
this afternoon a. oCloCk si the
Chapel uf the PritchaFd fuHfral
Home. Rev. Guillcrnlu Perez.
Pastor of the Latin Mrihuaiist
Church. officiating
Survivors are: tWo SONS. tsi ltf
Saladriga of Key West. aHH 'H.
Saladrigs, Jr.. Of Tampa 90 !.
one sister Mrs FrsnCHc1 Lsn.
oea of Key West.
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NO COMPLAINTS
FILED ON TAXES

County Commissioners, sitting
as an equalization board Tuesday
night, received no complaints
about the assessments in Monroe
county. They will sit as an equal
ization board tomorrow night.
At the session tomorrow, the
commissioners will prepare the
county's tentative budget, based
on the highest tax roll in the his
tory of the county, $17,392,282.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-05
TRAINED SEAL. CONFUSED

Great Falls, Mont,-Buck Del
ply trained his pet Labrador seal
hound, BlaCkie. to answer the
door bell. The only trouble about
it is that when the Telephone
rings, Blackie runs and opens the
door. Now Delphy is afraid he's
going to have to take his tele-
phone out.
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RECENT DECISIONS
SHOW SUPREME
COURT DIVIDED

The Supreme Court, in recent
decisions, reveals a badly divided
Judiciary. There is none of the
unanimity which, it was predict
ed. would result from court
packing"
In the case of the Associated
Press, the high tribunal, by five
to three decision, upheld a lower
court ruling that the news asso-
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ZZlIIlZZZ
AMERICAN PLANES
BOMB AIRFIELDS in
TOKYO AND NAGOYA
tRy A..ee,assd Pres.,

WY AsNNctnsf0 EtES4t
GUAM. July s.-American
planes, based on Two Jima
and Okinawa. today bombed
airfields in Tokyo and Nag
oYa.
The attacks were success
full. the department reported.
and. shortly after the planes
returned to their bases. Radio
Tokyo admitted that great
damage had been done by the
raiders.
Tokyo further talked today
about acute food shortages
throughout japan.
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Three Apply For Pensions
MCOuncl Meeting Tuesday
THE WEATHER
FORECAST

Key West and vicinity: Partly
cloudy this afternoon, tonight and
Friday with widely scattered
showers and thunder storms; gem
tie to moderate east to southeast
winds.
Florida: Partly cloudy this aft
ernoon, tonight and Friday, scat
tered showers and thunderstorms,
occurring mostly in afternoons
and early evenings.
Jacksonville through Florida
Straits and East Gulf: Gentle to
moderate winds, east to south
east over south portion and south
east to southerly over north por-
ton this afternoon, tonight and
Friday; partly cloudy with wide
ly scattered thundershowers.
Jacksonville to Apalachicola:
No small craft or storm warn
ings displayed.
WEATHER REPORT
Key West, Fla, July S, 1945
Observation taken at $3.50 a. m.
Eastern War Time. (City Office.)
Temperatures
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RODNEY CWYNN
RETURNS HOME

& Rodney Gwynn, deputy clerk
81 the federal court and United
States commissioner in Key West.
d back from Miami, where he
Was on a business trip.
Mr Gwynn said he expected TO
return io Miami on July Is for a
stay Of two weeks.
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GEORGE HEARNE
ON VISIT HERE

George Archer Hearne, son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. ID. Hearne, of
Tampa. Is visiting his grandpar-
cnts. Mr and Mrs. George F. Ar
cher. Newton and Pearl streets.
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TAMPA RESIDENT
VISITING HERE

Miss Marguerite Deoyorio of
Tampa was included in the re-
cent arrivals in Key West for a
visit with her uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Monsalvatge, Jr,,
at their home, 315 William st.
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Ton.orrow's Almanac
TEMPERATURE BULLETIN

Temperature data for the "a
hours ending $50 a. m. as report
ed by the u. S. Weather Bureau.
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Precipitation
"a ho..nu eli.

Precipitation
Rainfall. "a hours ending
$3.50 a. M; inches - O.69
Total rainfall since July /;
inches --.-. -..----.--------------- I.78
Excess since July l;
inches --------------- -------------- 1.29
Total rainfall since Jan. /;
inches -----.------.------------ 7.6O.
Deficiency since January L;
inches ----------.---.----- 6.65
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Relative Humidity
7lE
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-16
A Questionable Decision

It is true that laynen, especially at this
great distance from the scene, are not proper
w entitled to criticize the Allied command in
Germany The officers making arrangements
for the disarmament and distribution OF the
Reich forces have a tremendous job to do
part of it in a hurry, and must use what
to them seems the best judgment in the erner-
gency. But while it is no part OF the layman's
privilege to criticize there is no good reason
WHY certain of the decisions reached should
not be questioned.
An example is provided by the employ
ment of German generals and lesser lights
in the German armed service as go-betWeens
with the German High command at Flens-
burg for transmitting General Eisenhower s
orders.
In a dispatch from Paris Drew Middleton
informs the New York Times that four gen.
erals, ten other officers, forty-three clerks,
signal corps personnel and enlisted men have
arrived at Reims, and while they are consid-
cred prisoners of war are to be employed as
messengers of Supreme Headquarters and as
informers, furnishing what information is
necessary for the complete disarmament of
Germany
The question is: how far can any German,
officer or private, be trusted either to trans
NIT Supreme Headquarters orders correctly
or give reliable information on any matter
concerning the Reich, particularly its conceal
ed military or industrial resources? And how
far can the German high command be trust
ed to execute orders from Supreme Head
quarters?
Germany's conduct throughout the war, the
atrocities and brutalities practiced by t h e
armed forces, the trickery Of the leaders and
the known disposition of the high command
to plot wars and more wars, make it lmpos-
sible to view any dealings with it without sus-
picion.
The only reasonable thought in connection
with the program as drafted by Supreme
Headquarters seems to be that with the ire
mendous Allied forces in Germany it will be
possible to prevent treachery and that when
rehabilitation has been concluded the high
command will be eradicated. Anything less
would constitute grave peril to peace in
the years to come.
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Veto Needed

BY cunning ruse the House Of Represen-
ing to So, 500 annually. Instead of following the
customary procedure in such matters, which
would have put the representatives on record
and given their constituents knowledge Of their
vote, the raise was inserted in the Legislative
Branch Appropriations bill and so prevented
roll call.
And instead of making the increase payable
at later date, which is also the custom
of legislative bodies, it was made retroactive
from last January l. Also it is to be tax free,
in contradistinction to the representative reg
rlar salaries which are subject to the sur
tax
Maybe representatives in Congress believe
they need more money to continue living in
the style they have been accustomed to- But
it has been the general impression that with
war on and initiation knocking at the door
nobody was supposed to live like that. On the
contrary, everybody is expected to abandon
the old style and 60 short on many things
that used to be considered essential to COM
fort and happiness. BY giving themselves this
additional $500 year under the guise Of an
expense allowance, the House members OBJ
viously propose to preach economy to the
non member population but not practice it..
| Before this maneuver, which does not reflect
credit upon the House, members are estimat-
ed to have received about $1,000 for clerical
help travel, postage and stationery, in addi-
ton to their salary of $4,000. The new item
adds 81, 500 to this With 435 members the cost
to American taxpayers would amount to ST.
087, 500 a year.
If any bill ever deserved the presidential
veto, it is this one.
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sorptive capacity of civilian industries estl-
mated at no more than 1850, 900, it appears
that the iobless will increase by around g.
600 900 by the beginning OF 1886
This unemployment will not be evenly dis
tributed. Centers of manufacture will be most
severely affected This is especially true OF
areas where war work has been concentrated
M,nv workers will find themselves with skills,
the demand for which has temporarily, decnn-
ed.
This figure of 5000, 900 jobless would be re-
garded as little more than normal IN peace
time. and is unlikely to endanger the stablll-
ty Of the economy
The real problem will come after me eho
Of the Jap war.
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What Next For DOOlittle?

The return of Lieut.. Gen. James H. Doollttle
to Washington .for reassignment'' to new
post of duty naturally gives rise to the hope
that he will be sent to the Pacific theater
of war. We have heard one Doolitle fan ex-
press the wish that as it was he who flew over
Tokyo first he ought to be permitted to deliver
the final blow on the Japanese capital.
General Doolittle has demonstrated his abil-
ity to direct great air force. The perform
ance of the 9th Army Air Force in Europe
was one of the outstanding achievements Of
the campaign recently concluded with Thea
conditional surrender of Germany.
The Generals flair is for combat; his talent
too great to be wasted on routine desk work
at headquarters in Washington.
At the same time if General Arnold is re-
auired by failing health to resign as chief of
all American air forces the choice of a sue
cessor would seem to fall either Upon Spaatz
or Doolittle. In that position alone, because
Of it's strategic importance, would it appear
proper to tie General Doolittle to desk dur
ing the remaining phase of the Pacific war.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-16
Look To Profits

Clyde Willis crop reporting specialist OF the
State agriculture department, reports Norm
Carolina truck crops generally in good con-
dition with the prospect they will move to
market earlier than usual Now if the farmers
get fair prices for their products instead OF
deficiency freight bills, as has been their mis-
fortune too often in the past, the states farm
situation will be proper cause for rejoicing.
Among North Cardinals greatest postwar
possibilities for prosperity is expansion OF us
agriculture always bearing in mind that WIN
competition keen it will require the most care
FIJI marketing through cooperation to ylelo
,,rofts commensurate with the effort and ex-
pense of producing good crops.
Raising a crop is one thing. Marketing 1t
for profit is another. For the present, with
the armed forces buying farm products IN
the field the marketing problem IS not as
difficult of solution as before the WAL But
the armed forces will not always provide
great market. When that time arrives it will
be up to the farmers through their coopera-
tives to hold spectators in food crops at
arms length and, by eliminating their pro-
hibitive profits, reap a fair return upon their
effort.
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QUOTATIONS

We will Utilize all land masses near Japan
as fast as we can take them. but the islands
we already have can absorb much more of
the Air Forces Lack of engineering troops
to develop bases is critical ltem-Lt. Gen
Barrow M Giles, Commander, Army Air
Forces in Pacific.
New Englanders are by nature conservative.
We don't wear our hearts upon our sleeves
and we .~e aware there is still much to be
done.-Dean Edwin ]. Van Etten, st. Pauls
Cathedral, Boston.
To cult before Japan is utterly crushed may
get our sons back sooner, but as sure as fate
our grandsons will fight and bleed and die
lust as our sons are doing today if we stop
short of complete victory-Admiral William
F. Halsey, 1r.
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Nv w. G. ROGERS


reflections In Mirror" b,
Charles Morgan MACMILLAN;
$2.5O.
Nothing will ever be the same
again; the old world is gone" Be.
cause Morgan profoundly disbe-
lieves this "insidious catchword,
he wrote the essays which com.
pose this book.
The distinguished author Of
"Sparkenbroke" knows what war
is for having fought in the last
one; and he's aware that Britain,
and incidentally the rest of the
world, have resorted to war again.
Occasionally he refers to the con.
flict if to do no more than fero-
ciously contemn as he spells it the
German people.
But he deliberately avoids war
as a separate subject. He devotes
his attention, and invites us to
devote ours, to the question of
why birds sing" 10 the admira-
BILE faculty of being idle, to Pascal
Hardy, Turgenev Tolstoy and the
Brontes.
These articles have appeared
weekly in the Literary Supplement-
OF the London Times. Even in
wartime, even with a paper short
age UNNECESSARILY more drastic
than QUA English editors took 4
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Unemployment

United Business Service Of Boston estimates
there will be about 3,000,0 900 unemployed in
this country by the end of 1945. This is based
On an anticipated 40 per cent cutback in war
production.
The service figures about $500, 900 persons
will be released for civilian work during the
balance of this year. Five million will come
from war industry and two million from the
armed forces. It is expected some half mil
lion temporary workers will leave the labor
market This would leave some $780, 900 to be
provided for by the civilian economy.
Not all jobs will have to be furnished at
once Decentralization, for example, will be
gradual. And in many cases workers will be
transferred from war work to civilian produc.
ton without shift of employer. In some in.
dustries reconversion involves only change
in customer rather than in production.
OF the indicated 100000 servcemen d
women who will avail themselves of educa
tional opportunities under the CT Bill Of Rights
probably no more than 100000 will actually
start to school this year. This will lower civil
Ian job needs to about 6,250,000. With the alb
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The Literary Guidepost

page away from matters OF oa4 u.
moment and gave it to Morgan u
fill with comment, reflections an.
opinions on things which, the WI. w.,
err claims, abide regardless Oh W"
and peace. In this country me- a;.
azine would have printed 'hese Wy
says and gladly; but ne"Sp'pr
editors would have been mos vi.
likely to spare any precious " #
umns regularly for a serles
articles on world not at "a 'ihics
Yet in truth these subjects "n NV
interest Morgan interest U.s. w..
from day to day. While we az N
knowledge wars primary pia'd5 sv.
cur routine, it's no 24-hou, ~ Ur r..
and-night assignment. We ~ ot+s,
lax, or forget; we do THINK ;, T- NJ.
of the uses to which we shal a, : n
our peace, and it is those U'r INST
which Morgan reminds Us ~
aptly. son,,r.
Except for the downright oeas
citation of regimental ana ouiV ,,d
crary, Morgan is a genlle ,,'sr.
amiable critic. If he picks VII n,
rel, he does it with gloves OIL .,orts
learning is great, his judgelnssdJ
keen, his prose joy. You =, t'r re.
might pick other noVelsls u .;,ont
turn to when the guns are s.- r..
but that is just because we d.! ssrnd
Charles Morgans and we '''D
object to his preferences.
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BY LEE G. MILLER

ABOARD A CRUISER IN THE
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. - CBy
Wireless)-Our task force took
five Jap prisoners on its way to
Borneo. The Japs were Borneo-
bound too.
We would have taken more, but
two Japs on one raft blew them
selves Up as one of our destroyers
approached. And five more Japs
on two other RATS, who showed no
disposition to surrender and who
were in -shoal water too shallow
for a destroyer to enter, were kill
ed by fire from a land-based plane
we summoned.
The prisoners were Jap naval
physician, three pharmacists mates
and a soldier, the latter slightly
wounded from recent American
air attack on Bongao Island of the
Tawitawi group. The doctor said
they had all been trying to escape
from Bongao, but a strong current
threw their RATS off course.
Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey,
the task force commander, order
ed the prisoners transferred from
the destroyer to another of our
cruisers. We watched through
glasses as line was rugged be-
tween the two ships-While they
proceeded at their usual speed. The
Japs crossed over, one by one, in a
variation of the breeches-buoy
method.
Capt. Jack Duncan graciously Of
fered to send me across the same
way to interview the prisoners, but
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job. It was one explanation, in the
view of this expert, for the insec-
urity that the Soviets show by in
sisting on holding all territories
they move into and keeping every
one else out.
We are at least never in doubt
as to what our own public thinks.
Sometimes the conflicts are so
deep that clashing views result in
indecision and stalemate.
I think most of US have our hopes
on San Francisco. We are not too
sure wha. it means. We tend to
think of it as a peace conference
that will settle all the problems
growing out Of the wars end. But
many Americans would dare more,
they would sacrifice more, than the
cautious gentlemen of San Fran
cisco. The little people, so-called, :
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Lee Miller Covers The Pacific

that his machinists, watertenders,
etc, would resent transfer to other
jobs on the ship. And he said
they didn't like going on deck for
an airing. They work four hours,
then have eight off, and they spend
most of the eight in hunks far be-
low deck.
And believe me, while sailors
have many amenities that soldiers
lack. the soldiers have some ad-
vantages. Whereas soldiers have
the privacy of goldfish, sailors
have the privacy Of sardines under
glass. They sleep in four-and-
five-tiered hunks tucked into every
available Granny, no matter how
public. I'd as soon sleep next to
subway turnstile.
Admiral Berkey reported the
wounding Of my friend Colonel Bob
Allen, in Germany, and my
thoughts went to his devoted wife,
Ruth Finney, Washington cores
pondent.
The admiral is reading Ernie
Pyle's Brave Men," which he got
for Christmas.
After dinner Liert. Frank E.
Taplin of Cleveland, Admiral Ber-
keys intelligence officer, played
the piano in the wardroom. Tap"
is princeton man He is married
to a New Zealander named Ngaio,
the same as Ngaio Marsh, the New
Zealand "whodunit'' writer. So 1
finally learned how to, pronounce
the name. Just forget the "g"
and say Nigh-oh. You never know
what you'll find out in these tropi-
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Daily Prayer
FOR PATIENCE WITH NEWS

Up and down our spirits move
with the changes in each days
war news. Forgive us, Heavenly
Father, that we are so inconstan
and mercurial; such slaves OF the
moment and of the day Gram
US Divine aid to enter into stronS
and steadfast and serene colll'
dence in Thy long purposes May
we be assured that the total tale
will be of victory, and Of the III
evitable working out of Thy srea'
purposes. Thus would we be DE-
livered from fear and discourage
ment and panic. When bad news
comes may we but realize mort
clearly that Thy purposes are aA
good. Make US, we pray, sha[ei'
in the patience of Christ UnhuI,
ried and unhalting. He carried ou.
Thy vast purposes to the END IND.
seemed defeat, but thai wa
really the great victory. Give ID
all, home-dwellers and front-llllE
fighters, the indomitable courass
of those who know that they sel''
the living God. Amen.-W.T.E.
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prestige, bring about greater har.
mony of action than we have seen
thus far. But there is nothing he
could do to mitigate the animosity
between Pole and Russian that is
root cause of the conflict at San
Francisco.
A world organization to keep the
peace must have behind it the will
of millions of people. It must come
out of their desires and hopes.
Otherwise it is worth nothing.
Roosevelt knew that. It was why
he so often seemed to his more
impatient leftist hackers to move
with such caution. He knew that
he could not get too far ahead Of
public opinion.
In Russia there is no free play
of public opinion. A few men at
the top determine what the mill
lions will think.
That, it seems to me, is one
reason why it is difficult to reach
any kind of an agreement with the
SOV1GC OI1lO1l. 1nC1l llCSOIldtOlS
have a hard time understanding
the play of public opinion in this
country, which is very real fac
tor.
They become impatient. If a
thing is obviously to the practical
advantage of both countries, then
go ahead with it. What Saes it
matter what a few people think?
Tell them that they should think
differently.
The degree Of control over all
the channels of opinion in Russia
is difficult for us to imagine here,
where every view, no matter how
shrill, how contrary to our own
national interests or how illinform-
ed, finds free expression. One of
the few officials in Washington
who qualities as an expert on the
Soviets was talking about this the
other day.
He expressed the view that even
after Is years of determined effort
to remou1d the basic pattern OF
thinking of the Russian masses,
the leaders were not quite sure
that they had accomplished the
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WASHINGTON CALLING
by
MARQUIS CH1LDs

WASHINGTON.-In the writing
= yes, the writing - out Of
the San Francisco conference, an
odious phrase tends to recur. 1t is
the phrase the Little People"
Cherishing freedom of expression
in the press, 1 nevertheless wish
there was some way to prescribe
that phrase. Maybe it could be
done by voluntary agreement.
1t is an insulting phrase. 1t i'm.
plies that a breed of supermen ex-
lists to whom we may trust these
large affairs. Unhappily, what had
gone on at San Francisco thus far
gives little support to this myth.
The delegates at San Francisco
are ordinary human beings like the
rest of us. They have more know
ledge and more experience in
world affairs than the average
citizen and, presumably, this gives
them superior judgment in such
matters.
Even this last, however. is
UUU1OQo. OCdICo111S1l, 1IlCdIl1IlS men
who practice statescraft, are SUBJ
ject to ious occupational
diseases that make for excessive
caution an d timidity and an
atrophy of the kind Of understand
ing essential to human relations on
whatever level.
That phrase, 'the little people. !"
is the diverse side of the great
man" myth which our age is a
prey to Because our world is
so complicated, we try to believe
that someone must know all the
answers. We endow the individual
with superhuman powers.
Millions of Americans d i d that
with FDR. AS he rose to world
ascendancy, he seemed to ACQUIRE
mythical powers. We wrote and
spoke of the Big Three as though
they could, merely by sitting down
together, resolve the myriad con-
fusions of our world. The phrase
itsef-the Big Three--is a reflec-
ton OF the great man myth.
Perhaps if he were present
Roosevelt could, by the very fact of
MS presence, the weight of his