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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18

since the lunatic fascists are
doing the job of stirring UP
racial and religious hate?
Why should these vested in
terests set up a one-party police
state SO long as they can DOM
mate the two" political parties
and thus turn Washington into
a substation of Wall Street?
SOME may feel that a dis
tinction should be made be-
tween fascism and the reaction
that rules America today. But
the essence of fascism matters
more than its form. And es-
sentially fascism means the
rule of economic royalists,
whether by dictators as. with
the Axis or perversion of
democracy as in America. The
form may vary but the end re-
suit, which is depression and
war, remains the same.
Americas cartel-fascists will
not call upon Kluxers and Col
umbians unless and until the
plain people unite to reclaim
their democracy.
We must make ready.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18
BY STETSON KENNEDY.

here-all wrapped up in red
white-and-blue = unionbustjng.
profiteering, witch-hunting and
warmongering.
Officials of the German /. C.
Farben cartel ars now being
tried for war crimes. The trial
reveals that this cartel gave $40
million to the Maxi party TO
start it rolling.
So far, Americas own cartels
have not seen fit to hand out
any such sums to our home
grown Shirted and sheeted two
bit wouldbe fuehrers.
Why should Wall Street fool
with the leaders of such nitwit
outfits as the Khan and Col
umbians, when it has such SER
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18
BY THE ECONOMIST

Inc American people are not
being told the truth about the
basic cause of the inflationary
run-up in prices. The admin
istration claims that most of
the upward pressure on prices
is result of competition among
Americans for scarce goods"
But the fact is that the in
flation is being deliberately
stocked by the profiteering of
the monopolies in food and
other consumer goods.
1t is important to pin down
the responsibility for initiation
if it is to be combatted effec-
lively. Putting the blame in
correctly on the people will
not solve the problem, since
the monopolies will continue to
raise prices and increase their
already swollen profit take.
Eating less will not bring
down food prices; it will simply
destroy American living stand
ards. Waiting for demand to
fan off will also not lower
prices; consumers are buying
20%o less shoes than last year
but prices are still being
raised.
UNTIL the government takes
real steps to crack down on
profiteering and prevent the
monopolies from making super
profits out of initiation at the
expense of the welfare of the
people, prices will keep on sky
rocketing. The unprecedented
rise in profits proves this con-
clusively.
Every new report on profits
furnishes further proof of this
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18
wants as Taft and Hartley?

wants as Taft and Hartley?
WHY SHOULD these money!
bags run the risk of installing
dictator, when they can do
their own debating indirectly
through a perversion of dem
ocracy?
Why shouldn't these lords of
98% of the press tolerate a 90
opposition press = particularly
since this makes some people
think we have complete free
dom of the press?
Why shouldn't the Natl. Assn.
OF Manufacturers and its under
studies confine their activities
to union-busting, profiteering,
witch-hunting and flag-waving,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18
SPEAKING
Worse thon the atom

GERMS were not US d in
World War II because skepti-
cal military scientists had not
fully examined the possibilities.
Today this skepticism has been
banished forever.
Development of long range
and supersonic planes means
that one nation can send these
deadly bacteria thousands of
miles away with little fear of
interrogation and without ex-
posing ones own citizens to the
resultant diseases. And the
only nations capable of waging
a major war today, the United
States and the Soviet Union,
are thousands of miles apart.
Let us remember too that it
takes no multi-oillion dollar
Manhattan Project, no extensive
plans and uranium stockpiles
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18
Frank MARSHAL Davis

to produce germs for warfare.
Already science has been able
to develop new and powerful
strains of disease germs I'M
known to nature and which
physicians could combat.
GET an ordinary water glass
from your kitchen. Not very
big, is it? Yet scientists told
the UN that a glass filled with
an unpurified preparation of
psitticosis virus contains enough
germs to infect double the in
habitants of this planet with
the deadly parrot fever" if
inhaled. And a parrot fever
bomb" can be prepared in an
ordinary virus laboratory in
Spain, Argentina or any mod
ern locale in the world.
This is the kind of weapon
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18

THE government will not
stop the initiation in food prices
by telling consumers not to
waste food which they can't
afford to buy in the first place.
Instead of less living for the
people, the urgent need is for
less profiteering. Profitless
days are the way to curb the
inflationary spiral and protect
the health and welfare of the
people.
The record shows that the
government gave speculaiors
and profifeers green light TO
go on an inflationary spree.
The excess profits tax was re-
pealed and then price control
was destroyed.
Now is the time to Wholesome
of the damage caused by this
pro-profit policy, before infla-
ton gets completely out of hand.
Price control should be put
into effect at once and prices
rolled beck through consumer
subsidy programs. Fair dis
tribution should be assured
through rationing of basic foods
and ALLEGATIONS of all available
supplies into essential channels.
Finally, the profiteers should
be hit where it really hurts by
an anti-inflation excess profits
tax that will hold profits down
to their normal prewar Level.
Unless these steps are taken
Immediately, prices will con-
tinue skyward. The way to fight
Initiation is to curb the prof
iteers, not to force down living
standards.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18

is even more deadly. 1t is bac-
terial warfare.
Last week the United Nations
General assembly heard the
fantastic potentials of bacterial
warfare tBW) when the Amer
lean Association of Scientific
Workers submitted a memoran-
dunn containing the cold facts,
and asked that the UN Atomic
Energy Commission immediate
ly place BW on its agenda.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18
TO-DAY Washington a

TODAY Washington and
Moscow eye one another. tense
and suspicious. Gone is the
trust and friendship felt by al
lies when Roosevelt was alive.
Further, what is there TO pre-
vent the strong vengeful rem
nants of German fascism from
capitalizing on this cold con-
flict by striking from some Sc
cret place, in Spain or Argen-
tina, hitting both America and
the Soviet Union with a bac-
terial Pearl Harbor? Would
not each think the other guilty,
then launching the final war
that would kill us all?
I've had enough of death and
destruction.
have no desire to see the
plain people of this planet sac
rificed in an attempt TO pre-
serve the high profits and die
tatorship of Wall Street.
If we want to live, let's halt
this threatened global suicide
of World War III. Let's make
this one world-not the one
world of Henry Luce and John
Foster Dulles, but the united
family of nations dreamed by
Roosevelt fought for by
Henry Wallace.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18
INSIDE OUT
How strong is foscism?

are the same as fascists."
Martin: That cabaI of arch
reactionary economic royalists
has already taken America far
along the road to fascism.
AFTER spending the worst
years of my life making first
hand investigations of such
homegrown fascist groups as
the Ku Klux Khan, Columbians,
Sons of Dixie and American
Gentle Army (to name but a
few, I beg to report that Mr..
Martin is absolutely right.
I do not think it likely that
fascism will come to America
IN either Khan robe or Col
umbian shirt. 1t is already
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18
9eeTTOW Strong Is Fascism
In American

That was the subject recently
of the Peoples Platform radio
forum. There were three men
on the program: DIR. L. M. Birk-
head of the Friends of DEM
ocracy; James Burnham, who
earns his cake and cream argu-
ing that we are already at war
with Russia; and James Martin,
who recently resigned as head
of the U. S. disqualification pro-
gram in Germany in protest
against the State Depths insist
ence upon collaborating with
Nazis.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18

point. Thus, the Federal Re-
serve Board reports that the
profits after taxes of 629 large
corporations rose from 1927 mil
lion IN the first six months of
1916 to over S1.76 billion in
the first six months of 1947.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18
&p5e

Similarly, the New York Times
reports that the profits of 296
companies were 127ao higher
during the first half of l947
than in the same period of 1916.
By contrast, wages and salaries
only rose about 1919.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18

no country other
than our own
EVER makes the
A-bomb.
This terrifying
weapon w h i c h
revolutio n j z e d
military strategy
little more than
two y e S ago
has given away
to another that
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18

In a nutshell,
they argued:
Birkhead: That
the 1000 fascis-
tic outfits in this
c o u n try may
unite and attract
big money.
Burnham: That
we ought to for
get all about Am
e r i C a n fascists
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18

'fbecause they lack the disci-
pine of the communists, who
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-18
TT YOU should run into

IOO SIIUuIU IuTI IIILU
some of the generals in
our state department, some of
the Wall Streeters command
ing the army, or any of the
others who want to attack Rus
cia now before they get the
atomic bomb" tell them this.
1t doesn't matter, really, if
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24
Death Sunday
OF Leon Sawyer

Leon Sawyer, better known as
"Slackey," died Sunday after
noon at 35 o'clock in his resi-
dence, 1927 Catherine street.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday afternoon at $50 o'clock
in the Ley Memorial Church,
with the Rev. E. S. Doherty Of
ficiating. Burial will be in the
family plot in City Cemetery.
Pritchard Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
Mr.. Sawyer was a veteran of
World War l, a charter member
of Post 391l, Veterans of For
eign Wars, and member of Ar
thur Sawyer Post, American
Legion. He will be buried with
full military honors.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs.
Maude Sawyer; daughters, Mrs.
Sylvia Koenig of Chicago, ILL.,,
and Mrs. Dorothy Sands. Key
West; two grandsons; four sis
tiers, Mrs. Hilda Roberts, Mrs.
Joseph A. Johnson, Mrs. Ethel Al
bury of Key West. and Mrs. Col
den Farthing, Miami.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24
Pay Taxes Now,
Tax Collector
Wilson Advises

Personal, real estate aud in
tangible taxes must be paid be
fore April TO escape pcnaities.
County Tax Collector Howard T..
Wilson said today.
There arc outstanding about
$4,000 of unpaid taxes, abou,
equally divided among the real
estate. personal and intangible
classifications.
After April /. Wilson said that
by law he was compelled Ia adj
vertise the sale of the property on
which no taxes had been paid
Last year he was compelled 10 sell
ire pieces of Monroe property e.
satisfy taxes.
The penalties for non-paymcnt
of taxes is 5 per cent of the taxes,
Wilson said.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24
National Air
Lines Adds To
Its Services

Gulfport, Miss, will join the
points that may be reached by air
when National Airlines, Inc, in
augurates service into that city
on April |. it was announced to-
day by G. I. Baker, president.
Gulfport, Baker said, will be
the 18th station to be added to
Nationals $500 mile network of
airways extending from New
York to Jacksonville, Miami,
Tampa, New Orleans and Ha-
vana, Cuba.
Initial service consisting of one
flight per day in each direction
on the Jacksonville-New Orleans
division of NAL, will be main
tanned with -mile-an-hour
Lockheed Lodestar transports.
These flights will connect at
Jacksonville and New Orleans
with 46-passenger DC-4 Bucca-
neer schedules for New York
Tampa, Miami and Cuba.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24

lar the girls, clad in lovely for
mails, stop at the charge of quar-
tiers office, get their passes and
stroll out on d soldiers arm. Of
ficers can't enter the building,
except on official business, the
girls always said bltingly that
was because WAC officers want
ed them for themselves. But now
the WAC enliStees meet the Of
ficers just outside the main door,
Regardless of the argument Of
how the soldiers like them dress
ed, they have plenty of dates,
even if they do have a midnight
curfew while civilian girls dance
on.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24

asking PERMISSION. s
Some soldiers contend the girls
look smarter, trimmer and more
efficient in their army uniforms.
But others insist they'll take
their 'WACs completely feminine
and wearing chic stateSide
clothes that let a man forget he's
with a fellow soldier.
The girls themselves are divid-
ed on the matter, One argument
is that they all are volunteers,
that they are in the Army be-
cause they want TO be and that
they should wear the uniform at
all times just as the men are
required to do. The other side
counters that a uniform is a
handicap because it puts them at
a disadvantage with civilian War
Department girls and bars them
from officers dances.
But the girls who had civilian
clothes with them are wearing
them at every opportunity. On
Saturdays they pour out of Nit
subishi Main building, the WAC
barracks in downtown Tokyo,
and stroll the stall-llned Gina
looking, shopping and not worry
ing about MPs.
On Saturday night in particu-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24
Adamses Sell Ten
Lots For $4,000

Ten lots in the. vicinity of White
and Washington and William and
Waddell streets were sold for
$4,000 by Mr.. and Mrs. A. Matt
land Adams to Mr.. and Mrs Ben
jamin Bernstein, Far Rockaway,
N. Y, according TO warranty
decd filed Saturday with County
Clerk Ross &. Sawyer
The lots are all about 50 feet
wide and 100 feet in length. Six
of them are near the corner of
White and Washington and the
others at William and Waddell.
MI. and Mrs. Herbert l.. Alley,
Clinton, Ind. sold for $4,000 prop
erty at Tavcrnier Harbor, to MIR.
and Mrs. Frank J. Doyle, Bronx
willie. N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward L. Barry
sold TO Paul thinner, st, Louis,
property on Little Torch Key. the
sale price was $3.50,
T. Jenkins Curry sold to Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Il. Sawyer a LOT
on Key Largo for $500. Curry
also bought a lot for 500 on the
same key from Mr.. and Mrs. 0. c.
u. Reimer. MIR, and Mrs. G. b.
Carlstedt. Great Kills, N. Y, sold
three lots 10 Curry for $500 on
Key Largo. ~
W. ]. Moshcr sold to Hildah +.
Sails q lot at William and Flem-
ing streets for 500. tr 4.i...
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24
Take 1000 Pounds
OF Fish icslertla,

About n0n ussutit Ia asa.
and kingiish af1F tHahf
the docks oi the ftrsn
tcIpriscs. inr trsiffds faf
was regarded as nnaiaa
luw normal
one haat uIsrattf t
Lowe bfomghi in 2mm fsa
mackcrci II was tisf uHs
bringing markofti a. psat
The lleron rsm tssst
made q tup o. Na 8
about a. m4ia nsft
Southwest kss basuFhi m as
5000 pounds "a tnafish 81
boat Contacted Sec rufat f
fleet fur Thump
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24
Has 3Point Program For Key Vest
Elmer Davis Hopes He Can
Retire Here; Says Truman
Plan Should Head Off War
Bv JOHN r. vOSBURGH

meet the problem. "The United
Nations can't do anything in
situation like this" he explained.
at is an organization of promise
but the difficulty now is that the
United Nations are not united"
Vctoes Weaken UN
Mr., Davis went on to say,
I"Gromyko's vetoes have taken
most of the juice out of the thing.
If the Greek question were left to
the United Nations, Russia would
see that nothing is done"
As to the possibility of World
War III, Davis said, mo one can
say" He added. The program
iof Truman, however, is much
more likely to head one off than
to bring one on"
Congratulated upon his having
been awarded the Alfred /. du-
Pont Foundation award as the
outstanding news commentators
and analyst on the air. Davis re-
sponded that he was very pleased
at the honor, Replacing Raymond
Gram Swing on five day-a-Week
broadcast, he says he can appre-
ciate, after only two months, why
Swing decided to go back to a
single weekly l5-minutc pro-
gram.
AS the conversation shifted
once again to Key West, Davis re-
marked that he has "a three
point program" which he believes
would be for the city's better
ment.
First" he said, fewer and
better bars. Nobody ever came
close here to replacing Pena and
his Garden of Roses down there
back of the courthouse.
They seized the land" he con-
tinued, somewhat sadly" and put
up Marine barracks there. Pcna
took up floWcr-growing. One of
the best things that could happen
to Key West is for Pcna to 90
back in business.
Against Dog Track
Second, no dog track.
Third, few signs should be
placed outside the city informing
visitors that if they like Miami
Beach to turn back. This isn't
the place for them.
key West has two things to
sell, its climate and its atmo-
sphere. If it tries to be an imi-
tation of Miami it won't do any
good. Anybody who likes Miami
won't put up with an imitation.
(Contlnued on Page Four)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24
3Die In Plane
Crash; Another
Plane MISSING
tDy The Associated Press,

CAMDEN. S. c., March "a
An army Gas, twin-engine plane
crashed l6 miles northeast of here
at 1855 o'clock this morning. re-
sulting in the death of three mem
bers of the crew. The plane met
with the accident at the height
of heavy rainstorm, and the
bodies were not recovered till
daylight.
(Stephenville Airfield, New
foundland, officials reported to-
day that an army four-engine
c-54 has been missing since yes
terday afternoon, The pilot, when
five miles from the field, radioed
that he would land in four min
utcs. but nothing has been heard
from him since).
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24
Sicily Anchored
Off Naval Base

USS. Sicily. an escort carrier 81
more than 500 feet in length. at
tracted a great deal of attention
over the weekend. The big ship
unable to get into Key West Ma
val Base, is anchored about five
miles from the base in what IS
known as Southwest Anchorage.
The Sicily is carrying 80 com
bat airplancS and is here for train
ing. 1t will leave here on the
10Th for Norfolk. Va.
Accompanying the Sicily into
Key West were the deStrOycrs
Powell, Paine, Collbaugh and the
Greenwood. They will also leave
for Norfolk on the 10Th.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24
Hofack Is Sought;
To Call Canada

E. ]. Hofack, of Woodstock.
Ont, should call his home at
Woodstock at once, according to
a message received today by The
Citizen from his relatives in that
city. The call is said to be urgent.
. Norfack was reported to be
driving 1916 Plymouth, bearing
the Ontario license, 46l-K4. He is
accompanied by E. M. Smith, also
of Woodstock, who is driving a
1916 Packard, bearing the On
tario license, 541-K18.
Word that Hofack was sought
was communicated by The Citi-
zen to Sheriff Berlin A. Sawyer.
who Immediately got in touch
with the State Highway Patrol.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24
Debt Or Income
Tax Reduction
Cause OF Split
nv The Associated Pres.D

my inc h8SpGAAtGu
WASHINGTON, March ga
split was reported today between
Republicans in Congress over the
counter proposals of whether
to reduce the public debt or cut
down income taxes from 20 to 30
percent.
Leader Tabor, OF the budget re-
duction forces, asserted again to-
day that President Truman's bud
get for 3712 billion dollars will
be decreased approximately 6
billion.
No decision has yet been reach
cd in determining what agency
will handle rent control and SUI
gar rationing after OPA expires
on June 30.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24

On the sun Ddtneu VeId1ua Oh
the Casa Marina Hotel, the dis
tinguished radio commentator,
Elmer Davis, quietly smoked q
cigar Saturday morning and gazed
reflectively at the picturesque
palm trees which stand on the
spacious hotel lawn overlooking
the azure sea.
IL remember when these palms
iwere just pceping through the
ground" he remarked, in the
friendly. unhurried twang famil-
lar to millions of American homes.
There have been d lot of changes
since then, some for the better,
some for the worse but if Key
West can hold where it is now, it
will be ideal"
The noted correspondent and
wartime director of the Office oil
War Information, was seated in
rcstful beach chair and obvious
~ enjoying the ease ana qttiet u
his surroundings. He was wear
ing white cap, white suit, white
shirt and black bow tic. -
I've been coming here off and
on for 90 years" he continued
land if ever get enough money
to retire I'll come here to live
It's the ideal spot"
Looks Al Palms
The commentator looked con-
tcntedly at the palms, with which
he has had so long a personal ac-
ouaintance. A slight breeze ran
through the trees, which stand
much like people, in varying pos
lures, some leaning this way,
some that way, around the
greenSWard.
1t was plain to sec that Elmer
Davis believes, as VIC had heard
him say d few days previously
that this is one of the most beau
tiful places in the world.
/ Unfortunately" he said, almost
rucfully. this is my last day
here" He left Sunday on the
7 am. express bus for Miami,
where he was TO take train to
New York. He explained that
the weather up north had made
airplane departure and arrival
| times uncertain. The cOmmcnta-
! tor will resume his broadcastS
+ tomorrow.
! Asked what he thought of Pres
idcnt Trlman's recent foreign
policy address TO Congress, Davis
replied ,thoughtfully. Ills policy
is the least bad way out Of bad
situation. 1t is the least unsat-
isGaCtory way"
q The commentator does not be
lievc that the United Nations can
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24
Humane Society Kennels
Broken Into; Complains
OfPolice To City Manager


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