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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12
9,662 Get Jobs
In July Through
Employment Unit

According to Fons Al. Hatha-
way, Tallahassee, State Director,
United States Employment Serv-
ice, job placements by the
Agency in July were 1862 of
which 1886 were veterans and
1888 were physically handicapped
veterans While July total place
ments were slightly less than
June placements, veteran place
ments in July increased 225 over
last months level. Mr.. Hathaway
commented that the total place
ments in the state at large is not
a bad record considering the fact
that June, July, and August are
the months in which the state
has seasonal employment de-
clines.
Still seeking employment at
United States Employment Serv-
ice offices throughout the state
on August 1st, however, were
58,50l, including 1886 veterans
and 9,521 women. The number of
new applications in July were
1910, which was an increase of
2,l23 over the number of appli-
cations made for work in June.
Appealing to employers to con-
tinue to list their job openings
with the United States Employ
ment Service, Mr.. Hathaway said
that the Employment Service
offices through their special serv-
ices and employment placement
experience are throwing the full
force of their organization to
meet the problem of employers
as well as those of workers.
However, the Employment
Service cannot create jobs" said
Mr.. Hathaway. 1.-THE only jobs
which the Service has to offer
applicants are those for which
employers have placed orders
with the Agency" The Director
urged that employers make full
use of the Employment Service
as job referral agency.
Mr., Hathaway encouraged the
fullest possible utilization of the
United States Employment Serv-
ice facilities on the part of both
employers and workers in order
That the Agency may be of max
imum assistance in the state in
achieving full employment.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12

actually ill with the disease there
might be ten or more healthy
contacts who.- despite lack of
SYMPTOMS, had the virus of infan-
tile paralysis in their bodies and
were capable of spreading infec-
ton to others.
Continue Experiments
At the Poliomyelitis Research
Center established by the Ma
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, a group of Investigators
recently determined that the vir-
US was frequently present also.
in the throat discharges of pa
tients in the first few days Of
their illness. The scientists Drs.
Kenneth T. Maxcy, Howard A.
Howe, Robert Al. Wenner and
David Bodian rubbed cotton
Swabs against the walls of the
throat and tonsillar areas of many
patients actuely i'll with polio.
Next they washed the swabs in
a special solution and then i'm
jected the fluid into. monkeys
who promptly became i'll with in
fantile paralysis.
1t can be realized from these
scientific facts the many ways
infantile paralysis can spread
throughout community. The
virus may pass from one person
to another in droplets of throat
secretions loosed in the air by
the coughing, Sneezing and spit
ting of polio victims. It may Turk
in the dust of the air of room.
Sanitation Is Needed
Contamination of food, drink,
objects and hands with the i'm
testinal eliminations not only
from those frankly sick with i'm
fantile paralysis but also from
the many more persons without
signs of illness may be the means
Of spreading infection. Realiza-
ton of these possibilities means
that rigid maintenance of high
standards of community SANTA
ton is must for the commm-
ity's safety.
Although it is agreed that it
is well-nigh impossible for an in
dividual to avoid contact entirely
during epidemics, scientists EN-
phasize that strict attention to
personal health habits such as
washing hands before eating will
eliminate some of the dangers
of contact and will mean added
protection against serious attacks
of infantile paralysis.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12
AUOca6lOs
Hanging In
Clusters

Sheriff Berlin SAWYER re-
ceived a letter today from an
agricultural expert In Home
stead regarding an avocado
tree in the jail yard. which
bears fruit in punches.
The letter said that there
was no other instance. SO far
as the writer was aware. Of
an avocado bearing in that
manner.
The pears hang in clus-
tiers" Sheriff Sawyer said.
much like Spanish lines.
though not as many on a clus-
ter. One bunch has Ia pears
but the average ranges from
six or seven to the larger
number"
The pears at present are
about the size of large
orange. and will mature In
five or six weeks.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12
Safety and Health Are

&An& (SAA~GAn VI NA0nG9 CkkASu4
Safe and healthful working
conditions are prime concern
Of Management at the u. S. Naval
Submarine Base.
At all times the Safety Sec
ton Of Industrial Relations, UNI
der the expert supervision of
Clifford Raines, Safety Director,
IS ready to advise and train per-
sonnet in maintaining the stand
ard safety program. Each activity
head is, accordingly, urged to
avail himself of this assistance in
conducting periodic safety sur
veys and standardizing the safety
program in his activity.
Each shop has personnel
supervisor whose time, either
wholly or in part, is devoted to
safety The object of assigning
a Safety Supervisor or creating
q safety organization within an
activity. however, is to help SUI
pervisors fulfill their safety
duties not to relieve them OF
safety responsibilities.
Safety is always the keynote
Of workers at the base. All oper-
atoms in shops and buildings,
aboard ships and throughout the
yard are being constantly in
spected by the Safety Directors
and his assistants, for unsafe con-
ditions and practices.
The Safety Section also advises
shops on matters of safety, helps
90 train supervisors and workers
in the art of working in safety
and serves as a source of safety
technical information.
Safety, Navy Civilian Person
mel Instruction 100, of which
each shop should have copy, is
the basic guide used by all Naval
activities in carrying out the
safety program. The material in
il aids in carrying out most
phases of shop safety organiza-
tons.
In addition, the Safety Office
maintains library Of Safety lit
erature, which is available to
heads of shops so that they may
integrate the material with oper-
atoms
The first four months of the
year 1916 shows an alarming i'm
crease i'm accidental deaths. The
figures compiled by the Statlsti-
cal Division of the National
Safety Council, shows an In
crease as follows: all accidental
had an increase of 8 percent;
motor vehicle deaths, 45 percent;
occupational deaths, o percent;
pubic deaths fexeept motors We
hicIe) S percent; home deaths, 3
percent. All accidental deaths
totaled $4,000 for the first four
months of this year.
In an effort to combat the IN
crease in motor vehicle accidents,
President Truman called a hugh
way safety conference. This con-
ference brought together nearly
two thousand persons, including
representatives of federal, state
county and city governments;
civic leaders and highway trans
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12
Where Corn Grows Tall
Among The Airplanes

BEATRICE, Neb.-(AP)-City
Hall farmers" here are hoping
for a good corn crop. 1t will help
pay for improvements at the
municipal airport.
While city fathers were argu-
ing over how to get the money,
Mayor Velmer' Morris suggested
waiting to see what kind of
corn crop the city has on the air.
port land"
Seventy acres of the field are
planted and at today's high grain
prices the crop will go a long way
toward paying for the improve
mentS, the mayor declared.
Baseball evolved from the
Epolich uatna of cricket
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12
Circus Vesed
By High Cost
Of Elephants
AP Newsfeotures

AP NeWSfedtuTeS
DURHAM, South Africa.-0ne
of South Africa's leading show
men, William Pagel. is complain
ing that the cost of elephants has
gone up with the cost of living,
Before the war. the circus man
says, young elephants. about 4
feet inches tall. could be
brought for $500 each: now they
cost that much for each foot In
height.
Il searched far and wide
throughout India for good ele-
phant but those | could have
bought would have cost me a for
tune" he says.
In East Africa he found ele-
plant prices more reasonable
and bought seven of them to-
gether with two hippos and two
pink pelicans.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12

'Pay careful attention to per-
sonal cleanliness such as thorough
hand washing before eating, ?
warns the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis in its lists
of precautions against serious at
tacks of the disease now threat
ening locally and many comnun-
tiles in the United States.
Scientific authorities agree on
one thing about polio-the virus
causing the disease is wide
spread during epidemics. How
the virus gets into the body is a
point upon which they don't en-
tirely agree, but the bulk of the
evidence thus far indicates that
one frequent way the organism
can enter the body is through the
mouth. Dirty hands might read
lily carry The infection virus into
the body.
Virus Is Widespread
How widespread this virus
may be, has been indicated by
many scientists. Some of the
early polio fighters knew that
the virus of infantile paralysis
could be found in the bowel elm
nations of many patients. What
they did not know was how long
the virus could be excreted from
the body and whether there
might be chronic carriers of the
disease similar to Typhoid
Mary" who innocently spread
typhoid to hundreds of victims.
Resolved to try to answer
these important questions, three
scientists from Yale University,
Drs. Robert Ward, Joseph l.. Mel
nick and Dorothy M. Horstmann
began their studies. 1t was dur
ing the summer of 1913 and the
New Haven Hospital had many
cases OF infantile paralysis in its
wards. The three polio scientists
selected sixty-one of the patients
for their study. AT weekly inter
walls stool specimens of the select
ed groups were collected and
brought to Yale University's lab
oratory for preparation and inoc-
lllation into monkeys. Ii the
monkeys developed infantile
paralysis after injection of the
treated stool specimen, it meant
that the virus was still present In
the patients body.
Work Was Tedious
For many long weeks the
workers continued their tedious
monkey studies which were made
possible by the financial support
of the National Foundation. Fin
ally at the end of six months, tho
experiments were finished. The
results were worth while, for
they gave added evidence as to
how widespread the virus of i'm
fantile paralysis can be. The
workers reported that many pa
tientS continued to excrete virus
from their bodies for as long as
two months. Fortunately, they
added, there was no evidence of
the existence of a Polio Mary"
Ia persistent carrier of the
disease.
f.; Other scientists following a
similar trial demonstrated that
virus was excreted in the stools
] of persons who had merely been
in contact with patients and had
: no SYMPTOMS themselves. They es-
timated that for every person
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12
COal-tO-OiI Industry
Grows I'm South Africa

CAPETOWN. - Jap - The
likelihood of South Africa's lead
ing the world in producing oil
from coal was suggested here by
S. G.. Mcneil. managing director
of the Anglo Transvaal Consoli-
dated Investment Co.
ErInelo in the Transvaal has
the only successful oil-from-shale
industry in the world, he said,
but producers are not satisfied
with the present production and
plan more enduring industrial
development.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12

portation and traffic technicians
from all parts Of the nation at
tended.
In an address during the con-
ference, President Truman called
for the examination and licensing
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12

The daily weather map OF the
United States was first publish
ed by the government in 1871.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12

Poland has exported 100000
tons of cement to the Soviet
Union in six months.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12
Precautions Against Polio
BY J. HARTMAN BRoDoWsKI

lEDITORS NOTE: This is the fourth of q series of
orioles special to The Citizen on the scientific back
ground OF the safeguards uqainst poIiol
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12
SATURDAY. AUGUST 10. IS4s
know Americal

Elk President Herbert c. Hoo
yer, born at West Branch, Iowa,
u years ago.
Prof. William Z. Hooking, the
famed Harvard philosopher
emeritus, born in Cleveland, 70
years ago.
Prof. Douglas S. Moore OF Co
lumbia Univ, music department
head. composer. president of the
National Institute of Arts and
Letters, born in Long Island, N.
T.. So years ago.
Maj. Gen. William Ord Ryan,
wartime air command head, born
in San Antonio, Tex, SIS years
ago.
Norma Shearer, actress, born
in Montreal. Cana, "A years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12

Nearly 1000 species of plants
yield fibers useful to man.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12

The word etiquette originally
referred to piece of paper at
tached to a package to indicate
its contents.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12
NAVY NEWS SLANTS

BY HARTMAN BRoDowsKI Navy Civilian Publicity Director
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12

Baseball evolved from the
English game of cricket.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12
TODAY's BIRTHDAYS

l - ~ - -. . ~ &
Evening star., 1946-01-04
Fellowship Votes AHiliaiionI
With Lutheran Business Unit

The Lutheran Laymen's Fellow
ship yesterday voted to af1iliate
itself with the Lutheran Business
and Professional Federation.
Albert Grorud, chairman OF the
committee investigating the afIilia-
ton, said the merger would benefit
both organizations, since their goals
had SO much in common.
The luncheon February Z will In
clude women as guests Of the mem-
bers, and Maj. Gen. Luther D. Miller,
Army chief Of chaplains, will speak.
Plans to place chaplain In every
veterans hospital in the country
are now under way, Chaplain Craw-
ford w. Brown. director OF the
chaplaincy service Of the United
States Veterans Administration,
told the fellowship group yesterday.
Walter r. Boettcher, fellowship
president, presided at the meeting
at the Willard Hotel.
Evening star., 1946-01-04
War Economy Is Theme
OF Nearing Lectures

"The Economy of War" and "The
United States of America and West
ern Europe" will be the subjects of
lectures tomorrow night at 7:3o and
% o'clock by DR.. Scott Nearing,
economist and sociologist, in Friends
Meeting House, 2111 Florida avenue
NV.
Other lectures in the series are
scheduled for next Monday, We'd
nesday and Friday nights. Admis-
sion is free.
DR.. Nearing, well-known Socialist
lecturer and writer, is the author of
numerous books attacking imperial
ism, the institution of war and u1i-
restricted capitalism. He has writ
ten extensively also on the race
question in the United States and
was Socialist candidate for Con-
gress in 1919.
Evening star., 1946-01-04
Dr.. Mccartney Leaving
To Take Chicago Post

The Rev. Dr.. Albert j. Mccartney
who recently resigned as pastor OF
Covenant First Presbyterian Church
planned to leave Washington late
today for Chicago, where he will
assume his new post as director of
the Chicago Sunday Evening Club.
The club is an international reli-
gious organization sponsoring dis
cussions in hall in the Loop dis
trict of Chicago.
DR.. Mccartney formerly was min
lister Of Kenwood Presbyterian
Church in Chicago and has been
prominent In religious circles OF
Washington for many years. He
conducted his final service yesterday,
midday prayer group.
The preacher at Covenant-Fi
Church here Sunday morning will
be the Rev. DR.. Elmer G. Homrig-
hausen, chairman of Christian edu-
cation at Christian Theological
Seminary at Princeton.
Evening star., 1946-01-04
Davis Installed as Heed
OF Cosmopolitan Club

P. A. Davis, electrical contractor,
yesterday was installed as presi-
dent of the Cosmopolitan Club at
regular meeting of the organiza-
tion in the Washington Hotel.
Other officers installed were DR..
Edwin H. Silver, vice president:
Paul v. B. Heiss, secretary, and
Kirk Miller, treasurer.
Maurice Colbert, retiring presi-
dent, installed the new officers. He
was presented with a wrist watch
and appointed delegate to the
annual convention of Cosmopolitan
International, with Fred J. Rice as
alternate.
Evening star., 1946-01-04
Navy Reports Lives Lost
In Lending Croft Fire
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press,
PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 4.-F1eet
headquarters reported late yester-
day that there was moderate loss
of life and injuries among naval
personnel" when fire destroyed a
small landing craft and damaged
three others Wednesday at Okinawa.
A board of inquiry was instructed
to investigate.
Evening star., 1946-01-04

cred the world fighting from the
China Incident" of 1887 to Pearl
Harbor. For his stories on the Ger
man blitzkrieg of Poland. ne was
given an honorable mention for the
pulitzer Prize for Foreign Corre-
spondence in 1910.
When the Japs attacked Pearl
Harbor, he went on active duty In
the Pacific as colonel and particle
pated in all Gen. Macarthur s
campaigns from Australia to the
the Philippines. Mr.. Lehrbas, who
also served in the World War as a
lieutenant, holds the Bronze Star
Medal and the Legion Of Merit.
Evening star., 1946-01-04

WOIlQ HepOFI,
a weekly news
magazine to be
published this
spring, it was
announced to-
day by David
Lawrence, presi-
dent of t he
United States
News Publish
ing Corp.
Before the war,
M r. L e hr b a S
was a Far East
ern correspond
ant a. pewcreel
ASiAon nnd noxt
Evening star., 1946-01-04
Lloyd Lehrbas 10 Head
World Report Magazine

Lloyd Lehrbas. veteran Associated
Press foreign affairs writer and
former aid to Gen. Macarthur, has
been appointed executive editor OF
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-10
Eure's Talk Ia Feature
Armistice Day Program
Continued From Page One)

tCOnt1nued From Page One)
ton early tomorrow morning, he
said.
Open house will be observed at
the American Legion Home all day
tomorrow, W. X. Stewart, Jr.. COM
mander of Wilmington Post No. 10,
ANNOUNCED.
A barbecue dinner will be served
to all members of the Legion and
the auxiliary and their families,
between 1890 and 3 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon.
A social hour for all Go-Getters
OF the Legion, who yesterday lacked
only IS members of reaching their
! goal. "a Thousand For Forty-Seven
by November H." will be on the pro-
gram at S o'clock tomorrow after
noon.
Ray Galloway, executive secre-
tary of the Wilmington post. yes
terday said he felt sure that the
goal of one thousand members
would be reached by tomorrow
night.
The Armistics Day program will
climax with a brilliant informal
dance, at the Legion home. Legion
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-10
LUMBERTON MISHAP
FATAL TO AUTOlST
Continued From Page One)

(C0ntInucd From rage OIieJ
exploded. Lumberton firemen,
called to the scene, extinguished
the blaze and e~xtricated, who was
burned beyond recognition just be-
fore he died.
Passersby succeeded in pulling
CAN'T and Knight from the wreck
age of the a before they were
seriously hurt. Can't is in a local
hospital suffering face and arm
burns, while Knight escaped I'M
hurt.
Other patients in the hospital
were H. D. Williamson of Lumber
ton, and frankie Finn of Board
man, both of whom were riding in
the car which struck the Charlotte
a from the rear, police said.
Williamson suffered injuries about
the face which were not believed to
be serious.
Finn was not found until three
hours after the accident, when he
was discovered, unconscious, on
the opposite side of the highway
from the site where the car over
turned. The extent of his injuries
were not Immediately determined.
Coroner D. w. Biggs said that
he will conduct an inquest into
the fatal accident.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-10
TRUMAN ORDER
LIFTS CEILINGS
On GOODS, WAGES
Continued From Page One)

be wound up and its offices closed
as quickly as possible. While it
has nothin gmore to say about
wages, it has some s, 700 cases of
alleged wagecontrol violations pend
ing and these must be decided.
Where violations are found, en-
ployers may be denied deductions
Of the labor expense on income
tax returns.
MIA - The National Housing
Agency apparently faces some COM
plications if construction wages
and building material prces rise
now that they are decontrolled. Mr..
Truman said that "a change in the
approach to some of the problems
will be necessary and asked Wyatt
for a prompt report. Wyatt said
that present priorities, ALLEGATIONS
and subsidies will continue, along
with the ceilings on new houses
$40, 900 on the purchase price and
$50 on the monthly rental.
Mr.. Truman. in a statement
which accompanied his action, de-
clared that 1.-The law of supply and
demand operating in the market
place will, from now on serve the
people better than would continued
regulation Of prices by the govern
ment."
In restoring the national econo-
my to a control-free basis just
four days after the election, Mr..
Truman took one more poke at
congress which he has blamed re-
peatedly in the past for Difficult
ties with his sterilization program.
The, real basis Ct our difficulty
is the unavoidable price control
law which the congress- gave US to
administer" He declared. 1.-The
plain truth is that, under this in
adequate law, price control has
lost the popular support needed
to make it work"
"A SLIOH6 MINT CuaC SOlHe 1HCTedSe
may be granted to landlords seek
ing higher rents was een in the
presidents discussion Of the neces-
sity for continued rent ceilings.
"It may be that some adjustment
of rents will be required. He said."
"but control of rents and control
over evictions must be continued"
The price control act under which
rents are controlled is scheduled
to expire June 30. Mr.. Truman
has indicated previously that he
will ask its continuance, but the
attitude of the Republicans : con-
trolled Both congress appeared I'm
certain.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-10
Embezzlement Charges
To Go To Grand Jury

NEW YORK, Nov. 8. - up -
With five men under charges Of
larceny and forgery and a sixth
held as a meterial witness, the
stage was set today for grand jury
action in the alleged embezzlement
Of nearly one million dollars from
the Mergeathaler Linotype Co.
The last man of five under char
ges in the case was arraigned this
afternoon in Brooklyn felony court.
He was James Collins, also known
as julius Davis, Julius Lobel and
Jimmie Collins.
He was remanded to Jail with
out bail following his arraignment
awaiting a hearing Nov. IA.
Before a police lineup, prior to
his arraignment, Collins denied any
knowledge of the case.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-10
Maffitt Village Resident
Struck By Car Yesterday

Mrs. Ruth Crotts, 116 Graham
street, Maefitt Village was admit
ted to James Walker Memorial
hospital yesterday afternoon for
observation after being struck
By a a at the corner OF Third
and Orange streets.
According to a police report the
car was driven by Thomas Hayes,
Negro. The injured woman was
taken to the hospital by James
Howard, 2714 Adams street.
Hayes is being held in Jail on
charges of reckless driving and
operating a motor vehicle with
improper brakes after being un-
able to post bond.