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will have time to consider other
escape.
Warning to Vacationers
w. E. Mallalieu general man.
ager of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters, reports that fires
are causing an average of q
deaths every day in the year and
that the rate is increasing. He
urfes vacationerS to prepare them
selves for fire emergencies with
at least as much consideration as
they give to their travel folders.
Preparedness prevents excite
ment," he adds.
The number of resort hotels
and tourist houses that are wood
EN- structures makes this advice
all the more pertinent.
Almost every traveller, at one
time or another, has occupied a
room where the only means of
secondary escape has been a
knotted rope hanging near a rad
iator Experience has shown that
only an athlete can use such
device with safety, Even more
hazardous are sheets and blankets
tied together. Safety engineers
point out that the average person,
especially women and children,
cannot be expected to accomplish
the feat of lowering themselves
or jumping safely from windows.
After studies of recent hotel
/ fires the engineers said that if
many of the victims had remained
in their rooms with the doors
closed and had leaned out of the
windows for fresh air, they would
have been saved,
If a hallway is filled with
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look back or bemoan mistake.
Most people don't notice your
mistakes anyway. They're inter
ested in themselves. and don't
care what you do as long as
you don't interfere with them.
When a thing is done. let it go.
get the lesson out of it and go
on to something else right
away.
Il also save myseII d lot of wear
and tear by not arguing. Arguing
seems to me a kind of expansion
of egotism, so when people begin
to argue, just think about some
thing else. And never give adj
vice. So / save a lot of energy,
which l can use for other things.
AS to the house. remember
an orderly room always looks
clean and a disorderlY one al
ways looks dirty. When it
comes to furnishing. I think it
pays to buy the best you can
and don't try to get too much
at once. If you make mistake,
don't worry. You can sell or
give it away as soon as you can
afford to replace it"
For the rest of the secret of get
ting a lot done, see Miss Kerr's
program. To begin Nith she plans
long term and short term.
Knows just about where she will
be any time tomorrow Makes de-
cisions now. Right after break
fast she starts the housewives
Instructions for the cook and maid
and does the days telephoning.
By ten she is at her desk for a
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/ ana successful broadway play
(''Big- Hearted Herbert'). She al
so finds time for a lot of things
most people long to do, but fail
to get done.
She owns a midtown Manhat-
tan house, filled with antique
Georgian English furniture and
runs it with an efficiency any
housekeeper might envy. Even
during the war years her satin
wood and silver shone. She serves
on the Writers Board, the Council
of the Wine and Food Society
and the Board of Governors of
the Women's National Republ;-
can Club. She takes in lot of
exhibitions, concerts and plays.
She gives good parties and keeps
! up a big correspondence. And
still she finds time for things like
reading every afternoon for two
weeks to a sick child whose moth
er is out of town. How does she
get it all done on "a hours day?
1t took a long time to get the
answer, for Sophie Kerr is not in
clined to talk about herself. But
finally, after dinner one evening,
she said:
Sits all a process C selection
of making up your mind what
you want and using your time
and strength for that. The only
thing ever wanted to do was to
write. Light fiction was the
thing for which l seemed to have
ability. l certainly had no mes
sage to give the world.
Whatever I've done has been
helped by the fact that I never
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-06-25
The Weather
FORECAST

Key West and vicinity: Partly
cloudy with few showers and
thundershowers today, tonight
and Wednesday. Moderate north
east to east winds.
Florida: Partly cloudy today,
tonight and Wednesday, with few
afternoon thundershower in ex-
treme south portion
East Gulf of Mexico and Jack
sonville through the Florida
Straits: Partly cloudy weather ex-
cept few showers and thunder
showers extreme south portions.
Moderate northeast to east winds
today, tonight and Wednesday.
Jacksonville to Apalachicola:
No small craft or storm warnings
have been issued.
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What You Car. Do
In Case Of Fire

AP NeWSfedtuTeS
ITEM fundamental fire rules.
Il upon which all authorities
agree and which can be remem-
bered by vacationers in crowd
ed hotels as well as by apart
ment jewellers and staY-at-
homes. are:
l. Keep calm. Your life and
others depend upon this.
2. Sound the alarm for the
fire department first. then no.
tifY others. Every second
counts.
3. Never shout fire" in a
crowded public place.
A Walk out. if you can. Don't
run. Running causes panic.
S. Don't jump. except as a
last resort to avoid actual
burning.
s. Never open a hot door.
Heated air kills before flames
do.
2. Cover nose and mouth
with a wet cloth.
8. Crawl along the floor to
avoid lethal fumes.
9. Close all doors and win
dows after you to check the
spread of flames and trapping
of others.
10. If clothing is burning. lie
down; roll in a rug or blanket.
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DETROIT, MichigaA ~.
Experimental opera
greyhound air-bus service
begin here tomorrow wle.
helicopter makes two demonstIz
ton landings to exchange passnn-
gers with the highway motor
coaches.
In flights near Detroit, the
helieopter will land at a clover
leaf highway intersection and in
thee limited space adjoining a
bus terminal on schedules 10 con-
meet with inter-city buses. The
helieopter being used is a four
place model, the largest rotor
plane now produced, and one 81
two purchased by Greyhound
Ekyways for experimental pur-
poses. Twelve-passenger hell
copters suitable for commercial
air-bus service are expected 60
be in production within two
years.
The demonstrations tomorrow
will be witnessed by Igor Sikor-
sky, helicopter inventor, and
Greyhound executives.
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One of the most tragic aspects
of the Chicago fire was the num-
Der of persons killed in leaps from
windows despite firemen's shout
cd warnings that they were safe
in their rooms. Other victims
were found to have rushed out
into smoke-filled, super-heated
Railways where they persisted.
The National Boar dof Fire I'm
derwriters, reporting that panic
takes more lives than actual
flames, warns that one breath of
lethal heated air can kill long be-
fore flames reach a victim.
A Dangerous Impulse
Awakened at night by the smell
of smoke the average person has
a natural impulse to rush to the
door o fhis room and open it to
see what is happening. If fire
has attained much Roadway the
hall can be charged with air as
hot as 800 to 1000 degrees. This
explosive air can rush into a room
and instantly ignite everything in
its path, including ones clothing
The first act of a vacationer, oil
other sleeper caught by fire
should be to feel the top part OF
a door panel. If it is hot, or if the
doorknob feels hot, don't attempt
to open the door,
If the door does not feel hot
brace your foot against the bottom
and open it very slightly. Hole
your hand over the crack anc
keep your face turned away. i
you feel rush of air or any sense
of pressure, close the door quick
ly. 1t takes several minutes fol
any door to burn through and you
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Siegfried Line
Mostly Junk

BERLIN (AP).-The Sieg-
fried line-Hitler's famous
but futile west wall-isn't
worth ripping up. Allied Off
GERS have concluded.
Many of the emplacements
now outmoded will be ignor-
ed, mute reminders to the
Germans for whatever they
want to make of it.
The anti-aircraft batteries
and mine fields of the west
wall have all been destroyed
however. Lieutenant General
Lucius D. Clay. US. deputy
military governor. said that
nothing of any war potential
would be allowed to remain
intact.
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two-hour stint that produces -
600 words. When the telephone
rings she answers it herself. and
goes right back to work. Says it
is much quicker than re-telephon-
ing the people who called. Using
that system she whipped out her
latest and current novel-'L.oye
Story Incidentap--in two months
Even for her that set a record
Afternoons and evenings, she US
es for living, from which emerge
her plots.
Two of the things you notice
first about Sophie Kerr are her
Ishapely graceful hands and her
deep blue eyes, which turn gray
when she is bored. Her head is
closely and suavely coiffed. Her
step is light and swift. She
dresses with chic smart suits and
simple frocks accented with jew
els and topped with colorful hats.
Sophie Kerr was born in Dem
ton, Md, where her father owned
a nursery. Received a BA degree
at 18 from Hood College, Md.
and an MA at II from the Uni
versity of Vermont. Wrote some
fOmances as "A pirl and sold n
few. Visited a married sister in
Pittsburgh, sent some stories to
the local Gazette-T Times and
Chronicle Telegraph and landed
a job as woman's page editor of
the Chronicle Telegraph. Later
joined the staff of the Woman's
Home Companion and eventually
became its managing editor.
Wrote nights and Sundays till she
built up a market for her work
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smoke, but not with impossible
heated fumes, tie wet towel over
your mouth and nose and crawl
along on your hands and knees.
Smoke is less dense near the floor.
However, a handkerchief is not a
gas mask and the American Red
Cross reports that many have per-
iShed in fires because of the mis-
taken belief that it is.
Danger of carbon monoxide
poisoning turks in every fire.
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JACKSON SQUARE
U.S.O. PROGRAMS

WEDNESDAY
$3.50 pm. Photo study group
8 pm. Voice recordings.
THURSDAY
100 pm. Deep sea fishing
sign at the Jackson Square
USO in advance. 900 pm.
Movie quiz.
FRIDAY
600 pm. SPECIAL ESQ.
Girls Service Organiza-
tom meeting - weiner
roast at the Club. Dance
called off because of po-
lilo epidemic.
SATURDAY
100 pm. Bottom fishing girls
and sailors sign in adj
vance. 900 pm. Feature
movie, Home Across the
Bay" t.,8..fEt 49,.
SUNDAY
GAS am. Java Club. 12:45 am.
Marine Life Adventure"
along the keys. 100 pm.
Gilmore motor launch
party to Sand Key. ESQ.
sign in advance. $3.50 pm.
Coffee Hour. 900 pm.
Movie.
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DeMOIay Meets
Postponed

All Robert J. Jerry Demolay
meetings have been postponed
for the present due to the polio
situation, according to an an
nouncement made by Chapter
Adviser Harry knight.
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and then retired to concentrate
on it.
My newspaper training has
been invaluable to me-" she
says. It taught me how to Get
along with people in business
and gave me habits of works"
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|VACATIONERS DRAW WARNING
FROM TRAGIC HOTEL FIRES
BY DAVID C. BAREUTHER
APP NeWSfeutureS Writer

ANEW YORK-The LoSolle Hotel fire in Chicago followed in
only Days by the Hotel Coned disaster at Dubuque
Io both the beginning of record vocation which
hotels throughout the country ore booked TO capacity point
up the terror of ponic in public places
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SUNDAY

Nearly all ant instincts, includ-
ing those that might pass for
love, self sacrifice and bravery,
are believed to be based on hun
ger.
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CARD OF THANKS

We wish in this manner to thank
friends, neighbors for kindnesses
shown us during the illness and
after the death of our beloved
one, Sylvanus Higgs, better
known as "Vaney", and for the
beautiful flowers sent.
Jun25-lt THE FAMILY.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-06-25
HOU To Be n Success
and Enjoy Your Life, Too
! These Women
It's All A Matter Of Efficiency,
Declares Novelist Sophie Kerr
Bv ADELAIDE KERR, APP New

BY ADELAIDE KERR AP Newsfeotues Writer
COPHE KERR secret lot of people would like to
knowhe of chukng up success while getting fun
of life
the foremost writer's she hos outored
s novels 500 short stories number of essays and articles
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REPORT

Key West, Fla, June 25, 1916
Observation taken at $50 am.
Eastern Daylight Saving Time
... Getty Office
Temperatures
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The midland journal., 1946-04-19
Chemical Warfare

The chemical warfare service
grew from a temporary expe-
dent in World War l to meet the
challange of German introduction of
gas, fiamethrowers and aerial incen-
diaries. The CWS was formally
established July l, 1920, under the
provisions of the National Defense
act of that year, and is unique
among the branches of the army in
that it is identified with its own ma
terial from the test tube to the bat
tlefeld. 1t conceives, manufactures
and uses its own weapons. Though
its basic items were designed origi-
nally for gas warfare, many of them
have been put to highly effective cur
rent use. Its bombs now are carry
ing fire instead of gas to the enemy,
other containers release smoke in
lieu of lethal fumes and the chemi-
cal mortar fires incendiary, smoke
and high explosive instead of gas.
The midland journal., 1946-04-19
SAFETY COUNCIL CAMPAIGN
FOR FUNDS

The National Safety Council and
numerous local safety organizations
throughout the nation will launch an
intensive Embarrassing campaign in
May to enlist all America in united
war on accidents and to establish the
Green Cross for Safety, as the banner
of that fight.
Theme of the campaign was estab-
lished recently by President Harry S.
Truman in letter to Ned H. Dear
born, Council President.
Arrangements made so far call for
statewide campaigns in seven states
and intensive local drives in forty
cities, incluindg such major commu-
mites as Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Omaha, Cleveland, Kansas City, Mo-,
Seattle, Miami, Fort Worth, Jackson,
Miss, Mobile, Ala, Indianapolis, and
Knoxville, Tenn.
The midland journal., 1946-04-19
THE FEDERAL BUDGET

Tke Federal Budget now before
Congress calls for appropriations OF
millions of dollars which it may be
impossible for the Government to
spend, according to figures released
by the Maryland Public Expenditure
Council
In the category of Aids to Agricul-
ture, totailng $501, 100000, inclusive
of the appropriation for the regular
Departm ent of Agriculture, there are
several items born of the depression
and the time when there was a vast
surplus of farm commodities. At that
time the Federal Government bought
up surpluses for distribution to those
! on relief, and initiated a program to
I encourage farmers to export their
surplus products. The use of farm
commodities for by-product and new
uses was encouraged, and sugar
planters in Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines were given a
quota to limit production and a finan-
cial reward for not exceeding the
quota.
With the world short of food and
begging us to export it, the condi-
tions which originally prompted such
legislation have entirely disappeared
Nevertheless, the proposed Budget
contains the following appropria-
tions:
For the purchase of surplus agri-
cultural commodities for distribution
through other agencies, 100000
| For tke encouragement of export
of farm commodities, S30,000,000.
For the diversion of agricultural
commodities to by-product and new
uses, $7,OO0,000.
For marketing agreements and ad.
ministration, $99,000,000.
For the Sugar Act, $53 900, 900
These items, totaling S201, 100000
according to Maryland Public Expen-
diture Council, afford Congress an ex'
cellent opportunity to save many mil.
lions for tax payers in this one cate
CORY of the Budget alone.
The midland journal., 1946-04-19
TIMBER CONSERVATION

A new and unusual program de-
signed to conserve Maryland's timber
resources is. announced by District
Forester A. R. Bond at Bel Air. This
is the establishment throughout the
state of tree farms dedicated to the
continuous production of commercial
forest crops in accordance with sound
principles of management. The farms
may be of any size from three acres
up.
To qualify a property as a tree
farm, the owner must agree to adhere
20 the rules of forest practice estab-
.ished by the Commission of State
Forests and Parks, to give the area
effective protection from fire and eX-
cessive grazing by live stock, and to
furnish information as to it's progress
when requested.
To the owner of a tract approved
as a tree farm, after inspection by a
representative of district forestry
board, will be issued a certificate tes-
tifying to the fact and signed by the
State Forester. At conspicuous
place on the tree farm itself will be
erected a rustic sign to call attention
to the tract.
AS established, tree farms will be
dedicated in formal exercises, usual
ly on a county basis, with short talks
by representative of the Governor
of Maryland, another of the lumber
industry and the State Forester IT
is within the province of the State
Forester to revoke tree farm desig-
nation in cases where the owner fails
to adhere to his original agreement.
The tree farm program is sponsor
ed by the Department of State For
ests and Parks through the various
district forestry boards and by the
National Lumber Manufacturers AS
sociation.
The midland journal., 1946-04-19
Washing Blankets

When your blankets become soilec
enough to need washing, here are E
few simple but necessary rules thai
must be followed to prevent shrink
age and felting.
Have plenty of tepid water (1O(
degrees) for washing. If possible
prepare two rinse waters of the
same temperature as the wash wa
ter.
Add mild soap to the wash water
and dissolve it thoroughly to make
q standing suds.
Place the blankets in the suds an,
water loosely and do not wash long
er than two or three minutes.
Squeeze the water from the blan
ket by hand if you are not using &
mechanical washer with centrifu
gal-type dryer. Never twist blan
ket; do not put it through wringei
The midland journal., 1946-04-19
e. KIRK BROWN, SOLICITOR
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
Albert Kist, Complainant


Ruth Kist, Defendant
In the Circuit Court for Cecil County
Equity No. 6551
The object of this Bill is to secure
decree divorcing the Complainant
vinculo matrimonii from the De-
fendant.
The Bill states that the Complain
ant was married to the Defendant on
the 5th day of August, 1912, in
North Augusta, South Carolina, with
whom he resided until the 25th day
of October, 1913; that, though the
conduct of the Complainant towards
the said Ruth Kist has always been
kind, affectionate and above reproach
the said Ruth Kist has, without any
Just cause or reason, abandoned and
deserted him and has declared her
intention to live with him no longer,
and that such abandonment has con-
tinued uninterruptedly for at least
eighteen months, and is deliberate
and final, and the separation beyond
any reasonable expectation of recon-
Citation; that no children were born
to said marriage; that the Complain
ant has resided in Cecil County for
more than one year past before the
filing of this Bill, and the Defendant
resides at Caroleen, North Carolina.
The Bill then prays for a decree di-
vorcing the Complainant from the
Defendant vinculo matrimonii, and
for such other and further relief as
his case may require.
1T IS THEREUPON, this 23rd day
of March, 1946, by the CIRCUIT
COURT FOR CECIL COUNTY, IN
EQUITY, ORDERED that the Com
plainant cause copy of this Order.
with the object and substance of the
Bill, to be inserted in some newspa-
per published in Cecil County once a
week for four successive weeks, be-
fore TIE oath day of April, 1916, CIV
ing notice to the Defendant, Ruth
Kist, who is nonresident OF the
State of Maryland, to appear in this
Court, either in person or by solicitor
on or before the 10th day of May,
1916, to- answer the premises and
abide by and perform such decree as
may be passed therein.
Ralph R. Crothers,
Clerk.
True Copy-Teste-
Ralph R. Crotehrs,
Clerk.
The midland journal., 1946-04-19
ALL AMERICAN BUS LINES

Stockholders of All American Bus
Lines, Inc, at their Annual Stock
holders Meeting in the Chicago
Offices voted to change the name 'oj
the corporation to American Bus
lines" |. B. James, president of the
company announced.
Explaining TIE reason for and the
significance of the namechange,P Pres
ident James said: "The stockholders
voted to change the name of the cor
poration to American Buslines' fol
purpose of simplification and easy
public identification. We shall aim tC
make the new name synonymous will
the highest in quality ground trans
portation. A comprehensive program
of expansion and improvement con
templates the addition of revolution
ary new equipment, attractive Inn
Type restaurants and rest stops, an
the last word in modern and conven
lent terminals throughout all ope1
ations."
American Buslines operates ap
proximately $500 route miles froiI
New York City and otEer eastern
cities to Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco via Chicago and st. Louis. The
Interstate Commerce Commission re
Gently has approved the acquisition
by American Buslines of a control
ling interest in Burlington Transpor
tation Company, which operates bus
es from Chicago to Los Angeles apt
San Francisco via Omaha and Den
yer.
The midland journal., 1946-04-19
A Goodwill Message

The will was not document OF
profound legal verbiage; just a
hand-written note from a military
man going to battle quite aware
that fighters don't always return
from such missions. 1t was no
hastily devised instrument. Every
detail shows scholarly thought. The
author knew he might be giving his
life for Americas future, and tossed
in his possessions as part of the
offering.
Not even a cynical critic of the
liberty Ben Toland understood and
appreciated could detect tone of
bitterness in his harmonious be-
quests. He met death on February
q and it is reasonably certain that
the viii was written at Christmas,
far beyond the horizon of merriment
but in a spirit of Good will toward
men," In that holiday gift-list rings
a clear note of victory and hope.
To Save Americanism
AS if it were his life's last tithe,
five per cent went to church and
five to a Christmas charity, "The
100 Neediest Cases." sponsored by
the Nelo York Times. Toland knew
the worth of learning and paid a
tribute to two schools that were
peculiarly his own, Yale University
and St. Paul's of Concord. The will S
other four benefciaries sound a
chord of pure patriotism.
Not every service man who paid
his life for victory in World War II
possessed this young mans grasp
of public affairs, but they all wanted
the same thing. They wanted to
see America the land of opportunity
once more. The fieutenant's will
expresses all this hope and more, for
Toland knew how to save America S
freedom: through peace between la
Dor and management. 80
Paying to Be Heard
This sober young man laid 500 of
his earthly holdings on the altar of
industrial peace. His mother yet
lived. No doubt he had personal
friends who needed funds. Just the
same, his largest single hope be-
yond his own life-span was to retain
the American system of free faith,
free speech, free enterprise, popu-
lar ballot, unrestricted opportunity
and equality under the law.
With 209o he asked Congress to
heed the plea of many martyrs, a
plea for laws in the interest of all,
not just pressure groups. Another
201 calls aloud to the National
Association of Manufacturers, a
group of small employers such as
fill more than two-thirds of Amer
ica's pay envelopes Another fifth
begs hearing by the two biggest
labor groups, destined to play an
important role in Americas future.