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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-19
NAT. Arlines
Today Starts
New System


MIAMI, Aug. 18-The~ time
when air travellers had to wait
hours, sometimes days, after re-
guessing reservations to find out
whether they had them will pass
into history this month, so far.as
National Airlines is concerned. :,
When National puts its "Reser.
vamatic" system into effect today
a person asking for reservation
will get an immediate answer
Eyes, for the flight and hour
requested, or, if the flight is sold
out, will be offered positive space
on an alternative flight.
In addition, the "Reservama-
tic" system will permit instant
confirmation of requests for
space on any flight, on any date,
between any points on the sys-
tenn, regardless of which of the
20 NAL stations receives the re-
quest. For example, a traveller
at Pensacola could, with single
phone call to the Pensacola sta
ton, make all the arrangements
for a trip which might involve
four or five or more flights on
different days between different
points.
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TROUBLE SHOOTER
A. Nsvsfe0svses

set. It seemed to belong to the
forest yet around it was strange
ly prim yet beautiful old
fashioned garden just coming
into bloom. Evidently Elsa cared
for it for loam-encrusted tools
and worn gloves were on the seat
beside her. She seemed undecid-
ed how to begin until Doug was
unable to control, yawn that
overlook him, then she smiled.
II know you're dead tired. ]
wouldn't have sent for you ii /
hadn't thought it important"
II thought you probably want
ed to talk about Glen Slocum."
"No-o-o, not exactly. though
it's because you were his friend"
whats bothering you. Miss
Larson?" He forced her eyes to
meet his.
ELSA" she corrected. paused.
then rushed ahead impulsively.
Doug, something has been hap
pening in our camp. Accidents.
-. a whole series of them. We
thought it was just bad luck or
carelessness. Now we know some
one is behind 1.-THE snapped
cable that injured Elmo yester-
day had been cut.
"Hmmm," he pretended sur
prise, "A villain in the woodpile,
eh?"
Eyes. Ed, my half-brother, dis
covered the cable and fixed it up.
but Charlie and Norway know
too. Ed thought it better if the
others weren't told. We need log
gers so badly and that sort Of
thing"
"Why are you telling me them"
=" Because you are Glen's friend
and / don't want you to work for
us with your eyes shut. There
may be more accidents. IL, well.
if you want to join up with some
other outfit, I'll understand"
Doug felt unreasonably pleased
at her words; having someone
concerned over you was an agree
able sensation, especially when
that someone was as attractive a
girl as Elsa Larson. But before he
could say anything the back door
slammed and a man came toward
them. Beside him Elsa sucked in
her breath sharply.
"Here comes Ed now. Please
don't say anything to him, Doug
. I mean don't let him know
that I told you about the cable. !"
There was a strange unac-
countable urgency in her voice.
(To be continued
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Chapter z

Chapter z
DERHAPS Hardin noted the
thunder gathering on Nor
ways face or perhaps he was
struck by rare twinge of con-
science,-he assigned two more
men to help Andrews undercut
the giant fir that afternoon.
In spite of his liking for the
big Scandinavian Doug was re-
lieved that others had been chosen
to work with him. He wanted to
know something of each logger
individually, not just as a part
of a group, and laboring together
on the big tree was a good way
to do it. With each chip that flew
from the raw cash he learned
something about the men, the
company, or the English and Nor
die tongues. Oaths were as nu-
merous and sturdy as the trees
around them. But if there was
any ill feeling for Hardin as log
ging boss, it was not expressed.
Only Norway had spoken up.
BY four o'clock the tree was
ready. Doug yelled out the warn
ing "Timber-r-r!" and swung.
With a crash that made the
ground tremble as with an earth
quake, the forest giant fell into
the center of the clearing. Kick
ing aside splinters Hardin walked
over and inspected it critically.
"This'n make a good spar tree.
better than the one Elmo was
working on yesterday" he said.
"OK you peelers, get busy"
When they returned to camp,
Norway took Doug over to the
mess shack.
"Hey you, Ollie" he shouted,
"You got something to fix Doug's
hands?"
The little Swede examined
Doug's palms. "By God. what did
Bill Hardin do? Make you cut
down the whole forest?"
"It feels like it," Doug ad-
mitted ruefully blowing on his
throbbing blisters. "GueSs I got
soft in the Army"
soft! Five years he spends
fighting those devils in the islands
and he says he is soft! Should
have hardened your hands first
and worn gloves, Doug, now you
psv for it."
He applied some greasy ONT
ment of his own concoction then
tapped his friends hands. ~ have
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extra gloves, you wear them to-
morrow" Then as Doug thanked
him Ollie added. miss Larson
leave message for you She
say come up to the house after
dinner. she want to talk with
YOU" Grinning he gave Doug a
sharp prod in the ribs. Watch
out for Hardin, he's a jealous man
sometimes"
Oog-tired after his first days
work Doug half considered ignor-
ing the invitation. or was it a
command? he unused. After all
Elsa was his boss in one sense OF
the word. Probably wanted to
talk about Glen Slocum. He won
dered idly if there had been more
than friendship between them
but Glen had never spoken OF
Elsa as his girl and from the way
Hardin had acted the previous
night he'd gathered that the boss
logger considered himself tor
man in her life.
AT seven a truck carrying a
"A group of loggers to Queet's
Inlet headed down the skidroat
and Doug hoped a ride on the
running board as far as the Lar
sons. When he left them the mer
grinned significantly but appar-
emily felt they still didn't know
him well enough to make any
comments.
Elsa was waiting for him.
She stood with her back to the
sun so that the first glimpse Doug
had of her was a Swallowed figure
whose head was haloed with 6
nimbus of tawiV gold. The hound
at her feet was joined by hi:
mate as Doug approached.
Hello Doug" Elsa said, n
hoped you'd come"
He grinned. 81 was practically
told I'd be taking my life in my
hands if / did"
Her enormous eyes grew som.
Der. 81 don't understand"
Hardin"
"Oh." The amber irises spar.
killed. again. "You ought to know
logging camps well enough mo-
to fall for all the stories that drift
| around"
She didn't ask him into the
house but led him over to a rus
tic bench. He sat there waiting
for her to begin and looking
| around him. The Larson house
was a big rambling structure
built of peeled madrona logs thai
cleaned like bronze in the sun.
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Program of Coming
United Nations Meetings

Is August
Commission on Human Rights
of the Economic and Social Coun-
Gil to meet at Geneva.
rs August
Annual Conference of the Food
and Agriculture Organization OF
the United Nations GAO to meet
at Geneva.
20 August
Statistical Commission of the
Economic and Social Council to
meet at Lake Success, New York.
, Social Commission of the Eco
nomic and Social Council to meet
at Lake Success, New York.
80 August
/ Interim Commission of the
World Health Organization (WHO)
to meet at Geneva.
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and q young wife wos fatally
stabbed by q husband in an
argument over q slab of bacon
Hunger and need is swiftly
killing off the last remaining
decencY in the hearts of us
Germans" said a municipal Of
fetal. "All scruple seems gone.
For an extra pound of butter
one commits assault. for an ex-
ira ration card one murders"
"We in the city administration
are helpless to cure the situation
because of the city-Wids corrup-
ton in official circles. The daily
papers are full of stories of food
thievery and fraud committed
by city Officials"
Thoughtful Berliners say that
the danger today is not the ideo-
logical gap between eastern and
western minded Germans. but
the gap between peoples and
families of food envy" as one
daily paper phrased it.
Our courts today are swamp
ed with divorce suits based or
arguments due to the most print
tive self-preservation due to thes2
reasons" a leading lawyer declar-
ed.
"The husband asks why his
wife gives him so little to eat?
Does she eat more while he is
out working? He begins to lock
the food away at night. They
quarrel bitterly. Soon they're in
my court for a divorce" or .
judge explained.
"Wives report their husbands
accuse them of not distributing
the family food fairly Husbands
call their wives stupid fools be
cause they do not supplement the
regular rations with black mar
ket food. In one case father kill.
ed his two children when he
surprised them rifling the cup
board for some potatoes mother
had locked away for Sunday"
Meanest of all food-crszy Bel
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pERN-Fes the central police station reveal stories of
thefts assaults kidndppngs ond mudeo committed for
the suke of unother rotion card
Lost month for example 50Yeurod city relief recipient
murdered housewife for hen ration card six children
kidnapped order their vouobe chdrens cards
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2-Story FallCalls
For Philosophy

Observation-Disclosures Pac-
ker fell out of a window of his
second floor apartment and land
ed in the grass below.
Examination at hospital dis
closed he had suffered only a cut
on the face. He attributed the
accident to a dizzy spell, and
said:
Il must be getting old"
Packer is "A.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-19

If you cannot get indoors in a
lightning storm, you will be
safest in a steel bodied automo-
bile.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-19

liners, say the police, is the man
who steals ration cards from
housewives while they queque up
hours for food.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-08
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS

The Nation faced with the responsibility for gathering funds for of the important humanitarian organizations in the world, the American Red Cross.
 The and the additionally tremendous that this outfit projected the of the globe been somewhat curtaed But the significance of the remark able job that they did will down through time nca tion of what human compassion do.
 Naturally in the of offering such worldwide service that had to be literally developed overnight mistakes made Many different personalities had brought the work and in instances the projection of their frames of mind coored the that people obtained
 But 1t neither reasonable logical to judge such mendous social force the reactions of individuals whom themselves clear about Red Cross obectve For did that it would be comparable abandoning all of laws merely because there occasional miscarriage of justice.
 The American Red Cross not merely organization it symbol of mans humanity to It is the growing pulse of people democracy understand through cooperative thinking and action for the welfare
 No individual group of people in America afford not support this symbol because they feel that the of circumstances failed the things their entirety they felt should be done.
 We therefore commend to the public generally that they support the American Red Cross campaign the full Of their ability because of the the democracy that we need so badly
Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-08

sition of being the most infuen- tial force within the group.
 Generally the evolution of so- called Negro journalism has fol- lowed the same route of the big daily newspapers, that first started out around the person ality of the editor; men like Greeley, Dana, Pulitzer and Watterson. Those were the days when the editorial page was the Nerve center of the paper.
 Interesting enough Negro journalism had much the same sort of beginning with the Dab neys, Trotters, and Fortuness. And though years behind the dailys, they too began to swing to the position a vendor of all sorts of information that con- forms to pulic interest.
 A great many people after reading a Negro newspaper of- ten complain about their being too depressive and nationalistic in their trend. Yet one of their attributes is the fact that they serve to focalize those undemo- cratic features within the na- tion that must be corrected ii this is to truly be a democracy. Then it has served as splendid medium for encouraging Ne groes to meet the inordinate ob- stacles that are placed in their path with a modicum of good Judgement and not without ln- creasing success.
 So Negro journalism on this 120th anniversary has little to regret and much to feel proud about. It fully realizes that 1t may we'll be working its way toward complete extinction, If 1t can sell Democracy, in the real sense, here in America.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-08
NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEEK

It is ia cry from 1927, which is now 14O years ago, to 1947. And very few people in the na- tion, except those who have been intimately associated with newspapers that eaten to the Negro population of the coun- try, know the name of John Russworm who was the found CT and editor of the first such paper which was called Free dom s Journal.
 Since that obscure and early beginning a great deal of water has gone over the journalistic dam, for today there are 155 Ne gro newspapers that are distrib- uted in 32 different states. The aggregate circulation of these 155 papers is close to 100000 every week. Their advertising is close to 100000 inches, line age, every year. Over third of all the Negro families in the United States, and more and two-thirds of those living in ur- ban communities are reached and affected by these publica- tions. It is perhaps one of the most potent forces in the na- tion for molding opinion.
 From February 28, to March ', the Negro Newspaper Pub fishers Association observed Ne gro Newspaper Week. There were two coast to coast radio broadcasts and churches, organ izations and clubs all over the nation observed this signal oc- casion.
 Despite the criticisms and the condemnation of the Negro Press as yellow journalists that have come from various sources, it is rapidly growing to the po-
Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-08
THE WEAK sTAPELToN FEPc BILL

We have been bombarded by indignant about weak FEPC bill being perpetrated upon public we have been scurryng about trying find why such thing possible And willing about hard to find GroundHog time of the
 So recalled that the Connecticut Iner-raCal Com made statement their last report public which had something do with legislation unfair ment practices.
 Commission, submit 1t to the public:
 ''That legislation be enacted making discrimination
 by employers or labor unions, for of
 lglon or national origin, illegal practice forbidden
 by law ntrusting investigations of complaints to
 Connecticut Inter-raoial Commission sub
 mt its findings to appropriate authority which, if
 1t be not at present existing, shall be set up''
 AS we have pondered this have that the light begins to dawn the weak bill that for the and the quetness the period
 For if judge by the Com the Stapeon Bill them asked Tor That the request be interpreted mldest and most harmless form For actually the those peculiarly English statements that to be contorted into most anything.
 But maybe the Commission did be interpreted in that loose fashion they really preting them.
 and the Governor know exactly terms Because in too instances people cep silence whoehearted And though they wise enough to know that only administration bill has ghost of chance of getting by this legislation they likewise enough know that the voice to have the Sapeon Bill given two would be vital
Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-08
HEALTH FOR ALL Whooping Cough

- theria and scarlet fever com bined. Dangerous in itself, the aftermath may be even more serious. Bronchitis, broncho- pneumonia, pleurisy and pull monary tuberculosis may fol- low unless the child is carefully guarded.
 Epidemics of whooping cough occur most frequently in winter
 and early spring. Children from one to 10 are most likely to catch the highly infectious disease, although babies and older people often have very serious and even fatal attacks. The great danger lies in the fact that the early symptoms can easily be mistaken for simple cold. The child may have a running nose, a dry cough and only slight fever. Yet in this early stage whooping cough is most infectious. A child with these symptoms should be kept at home and watched closely. If the cold does not soon clear up, a doctor should be. consult ed. Unrecognized cases in which the characteristic whoop never appears are the ones which spread the disease.
 In typical case, the cough will become more intense after a week or 10 days. The child does not draw breath between series of short coughs. He chokes over the thick sputum or phlegm and then draws in the breath deeply, making the whoop. Attacks occur on an average of 20 times a day, most often at night. Paroxysms of sneezing may take the place of | coughing.
 The child often vomits at the end of a fit of coughing. This may happen so often that he | does not get enough food and becomes emaciated. It is well to give food in small amounts Immediately after the attack More serious complications that may occur are hemorrhages and convulsions. These occasional ly are so severe that they cause sudden death. The doctor will prescribe the proper treatment or medicines. Fresh air day and night is important, as the paroxysms get worse in a close, dusty or too cold atmosphere. The child should be kept in bed if the coughing is severe or if there is fever.
 After three or four weeks the attacks become lighter and stop. A case of ordinary severity lasts usually about six weeks. However, the cough sometimes persists for months and the child remains weak and deli cate. It is in this period that he should be watched with greatest care because of the danger of chest complications due to weakened resistance. Bronchopneumonia may devel- op suddenly. Exposure to tu-
Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-08

million pounds of fats and oils from stocks Due to the savasns used cooking fat urgent than before
Evening star., 1947-12-13
Attic to Cellar
Now Is the Time
To Learn Useful
Household Arts
By Betty IrexIer

In an earlier day, our grand.
mothers were forced to make many
things for their homes, simply be.
cause there weren't commercial
products available.
Things are a bit different in this
assembly Line age. There Is hardly 6
thing we can't buy today If we have
the cash.
But we don't always have the cash
for all the things we need TOWARD
making lovely home Especially
today, because of that situation
which plaques us all-the rising cost
Of living.
So this Is the time it's nice to be a
handy sort of person"-who knows
something about sewing, upholster-
ing, crocheting, furniture ref1nishing
painting and the other household
arts.
Many Books Available.
If we don't have that knowledge
right now, it's not hard to gain it.
Usually all that's required is little
instruction. And many books are
available on how to do this or that.
You are probably saying: But
I'm not clever or artistic" Well
you don't need to be- In most cases,
all that's necessary is the will, plus
a little "know-how," and some care
full thought.
We've known many persons no
more skillful than the average who
reupholstered their own furniture.
They asked advice on how to go
about it, or figured it out for them
selves. They took careful measure
ments to find out the approximate
amount of material required and
plunged in.
And we've known inexpert seam
stresses who turned out quite pas
sable slipcovers and curtains on
their sewing machines. 1t isn't the
sewing that's difhcult-it's the care
full planning and fitting. But you
(See TREX,ER Page B-20
Evening star., 1947-12-13
meGodgets-
New Concrete
lnsuIotes
Ground Floor
By HiIson Munsey

For years many people have tol-
Grated cold, damp, grade-level floors
in homes simply because they be-
lieved nothing could be done about
them.
A new type Of insulating concrete
is being manufactured which makes
| it possible to eliminate this unnec-
essary problem. This insulating
concrete eliminates condensation on
floor surfaces on hot, humid days
and reduces heat losses downward
into the cold ground.
The insulating concrete is perma-
nent, because it consists entirely of
mineral or inorganic materials. 1t
cannot burn, is rot-proof, light
weight and economical. It has a
high degree of water resistance and
is time-tested.
1t is made by mixing a specially
graded and chemically treated YER
miculite aggregate with Portland
cement. This insulating concrete
lean be placed directly on the
ground, although a vapor seal Is
often placed on the ground first.
Modern Folding Door.
Have you longed for your home
to be flexible, informal, convenient
and efficient? Do you want rooms
which have variety of uses and
(See CADETS. Page B-30
Evening star., 1947-12-13
Ridge Road Project
Approved by FILA

Shapol Gardens, Section 3, to
provide 81 new rental dwelling units
for World War II veterans and their
families in Washington, has been
approved for FHA mortgage insur-
ance, Director James A. Hewitt at
the District Office of the Federal
Housing Administration, announced
today.
The project will be built adjoining
Section l and 2 at Ridge road and
E street Sc. by Shapol Properties,
Inc, and will be financed by the
Prudential Insurance Co. with q
mortgage of $4,000.
This brings to ITO the total Of
veterans multi-family rental hous-
ing projects approved by the District
FHA Office under the emergency
program, Mr.. Hewitt said. They
would provide 11,2o9 new dwelling
units financed with FHA-insured
mortgages in excess of $50, 1929 900.
Evening star., 1947-12-13
Month 5 Building Up
26% Over Last Year

Expenditures for new construction
Of all types, including repair work
was 26 per cent higher last month
than for the same month last year,
the Bureau of Labor Statistics re-
ported this week.
AZ measured by the value of work
put in place, construction activity
underwent a per cent decline
under that Of October, but this war
'less than seasonal" BIS said.
November expenditures were ST.
456, 100000, as compared with the
October amount of 81 1,529, ,OO0, ,000-
peak for 1947.
Activity during November set a
new all-time high for home build
ing, amounting to SIS per cent of
all construction expenditures. Home
building expenditures amounted to
$525 100000 for November, which
was $10,000,00O over the October
figure.
For the first II months OF this
year home building construction
was 81 per cent ahead of that in
the comparable period last year, the
agency reported. Commercial build
ing dropped % per cent in the same
period.
Residential building repairs were
up in the same 11-month period by
"a per cent.