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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Jonathan Jackson
leave today for New York City
to spend some months there. On
their way North they plan to stop
briefly in High Point. N. C.
where their daughter. Miss Mary
Jane Jackson, is vacationing. and
where she will join them and
continue on to New York with
them. The Jacksons expect 10
return to Key West about Mo-
vember 1.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-24
WILL YOU SMILE?
Too Professional

Doctor Pellet is certainly
the most absent minded man l
ever saw"
whats his latest?"
He was married Yesterday
and during the ceremony, when
the time came to place the ring
on the brides finger, he actual
ly felt her pulse and asked her
to put out her tongue"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-24
India Counts
.4,4l2,0OO Total II
Displaced persons

NEW DEI.Eif-a#s-A
recently taken b. ~
ton ministry piaets ~
number ~ displaced nssas
west Pakistan n Aftaoe8 ~
basis Of Claims fllea ia
placed presonx have ab
properties wofth sits7s Go
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-24
Seek Diuorces

"A petition filed in the office of
circuit Court Clerk Earl Adams
yesterday seeks a divorce for
EloiSa Alfonso Cabrera from Ma
no Edmund Cabrera, and Malta
Dorothea Johnston from Donald
r. Johnston.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-24

Wular Lake, only Is miles long
and six miles at the widest, is the
largest permanent fresh-water
lake in all India. II lies at the
northwest end of the beautiful
Val of Kashmir.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-24

The formulas for American
handmade glassware are SO pre-
else that a single ounce of one
material will be added to i'm
prove the quality of other mater
ials totaling 1000 pounds in
weight:
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-24
ASTHMA

SUFFERERS FIND CUkB FOk MISERY
DUE TO ASTHMA ATTACKS. RUSHED HEREi
New hope for relief from asthma parox-
ysms is seen today in reports of success with
. palliative formula which acts to relieve
congestion. Men and women who formerly
suffered with dread coughing. choking.
wheeling asthma attacks now tell Of blessed
relief after using 1t. PRoMETIN costa 50. but
considering results. this ID not expensive.
amounts to only . few pennies per dose.
(Caution--ns emily rs directed.) PkoMEriN
10 sold with strict money-back guarantee By
Central Pharmacy. Cor. White 81. &
Truman Ave.-Mail Orders Filled.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-24

Indiana's state motto is The
Crossroads of America"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Tony Arthur and
their daughter, Beverly. together
with MIR. and Mrs. Charles Mack
lie, returned to Key West yester-
day from weekend trip 10 Fort
Myers, where they visited Mrs.
Arthur's and Mr.. Mackie's sister
and brother-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Alton Morales, at their home at
Fort Myers Beach.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-24
Personal Mention

James p. McDermott has re-
turned to his home at 1l08 Fiem-
ing street after having spent five
weeks at Pratt's Veterans Hospl-
tai at Coral Gables. Mr.. McDer-
mott reports that his soiourn
there greatly benefited his health.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-24
Six Births In =,
a.
NaraI Hospital

A seven pound, eleven ounce
daughter was born in the U. S.
Naval Hospital, Key West, to Mrs.
Mary r. Porter, wife of Medison
B. Porter, Jr., LTJG, Fawtulant,
Boca Chica. The child has sbeen
named Joelene Ritamarla: y ~.
A five pound, three and one
half ounce daughter and six
pound, eleven ounce son, twins,
were born to Mrs. Cecilia, Fox,
wife of Frank G.. Fox, USN. US.
Naval Station. The babies have
been named Eleanor and George.
A five pound, thirteens and
three-fourths ounce daughtar was
born to Mrs. Elsie Powell, wife of
Robert G. Powell, SIN, USN, Fleet
Sonar School, Naval Station, Key
West. The child has been named
MaViS Ann.
A seven pound, five ounce son
was born to Mrs. Agnes M. Wat
son, wife of Albert T. Watson, CHI,
BOSN (CWO) USN, Tug Office,
Naval Station, Key. West. The
baby, has been named Albert
Thomas, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Leroy
Nance announce the. birth sof a
son at the Key West Naval Hos
pital on Sunday, May % at 3:l9
a, m. The child has been named
James Howard, and at birth
weighed 8 lbs, G. OF.
Mrs. Nance is the former Rose
mary Symmonette, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Symmonette,
500 Francis street. Mr.. Nance,
whose rating is ADO U. S. Navy,
is stationed at MAS, Miami VP
%, Hurricane Squadron. u
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-24

Chief of Police and Mrs. Jo-
seph o. Kemp have returned TO
Key West after spending the
weekend in Havana, Cuba.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-05-27
PRISCILLA CLAY. NATVE-BoRN
MIllNESoTAN. SAYS WINTERS TODAY
ARE MILD COMPARED TO OLD DAYS
BY Men RmSGn

the east side Of the river, She
says. Smelling Avenue was an area
Of swamps and farms
One OF her early memories was
helping her mother who worked
for Mrs. Fred Snyder. The nine
year-old Priscilla would answer
the door and help with other little
household duties.
What about the young people
today9 How different are they
from the young people Of the early
days7
They have q dlfferent way
Of doing things" BErs. Clay OBJ
serves. young people used %
stay together when they went 10
parties. We didn't start cut 10
gether and then wander away,
We wOuldn't have dared 70 DO
thatl"
She also believes there's quite
q difference In parents. Parents
give In too easily nowadays. In
the old days, when they said no.
they meant ~ Another thing,
nowadays, children 60 ono way,
parents anOtherg
As far as fancy frills are con-
cerned, she recalls that when she
was a young girl and there waa
to be a party, two or three Of the
mothers would get together and
plan the dresses they could afford.
I'VE didn't have anything ex-
pensive, either" Aunt Priscilla
reminisces.
At seventy-five, Priscilla Clay
does her own houseworlS, listens
to radio soap operas as avidly a.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-05-27

Minnesota winter nowadays are
Just sissy-stuff compared TO the
good old days, according to one Of
the real pioneer residents.
The snow used to be 90 deep
we could ride right over the
fences" recalls Mrs. Priscilla Clay,
1891 Smelling Ave. So. Ginneapo-
Lis, one Of the first Negroes TO be
born here Known a. Aunt Pris-
ella" to her many friends and her
neighbors, Mrs. Clay says she
thinks the cold might have boCn
worse then because the "town
wasn't built up so" and the
breezes had free play.
Aunt Priscilla Is seventy-five
years old. Her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaac Mcintosh. came here
on the first boat bringing Negro
pioneers up the river from Hani-
bal, Mo-, in 1850.
Although Mrs. Clay was born In
the old Fremont house on the site
of the present Pinsbury Mills, the
family homestead until she moved
to the smelling avenue address
forty years ago, was at 1215
Spring st. N. e.
Early Negro residents lived on
the East side until hotel busi-
ness became concentrated on the
other side Of the Mississippi and
the families followed tho new
business trend.
Aunt Priscilla recalls the old
suspension bridge over what Is
now Hennepin Avenue. the saw
mills, and the winslow house,
which was the first hospital on
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-05-27
Scandinavian Pepper
Protested McGhees
COP. Desiqnusion

In trying 70 advance in Mime
sofa, the Negro not only received
lashings from the whites and their
press, but also from other minor
ity groups in the state.
One Scandinavian paper, the
Svenslxa Arneril1ansl1a Posten, in
May 1892, incensed over the fact
that a Negro was elected chair
man Of the Republican state pres
idential electors, printed:
The Scandinavian members of
the Republican party were the
recipients Of another slap in the
face at the state convention held
in St Paul this year.
"a Negro, Frederick L. Nc
Ghee, who claims to represent a
handful Of his race, was elected
to the most responsible and hon
orary position which the conven-
ton has at its disposal-he was
elected chairman Of the state
presidential electors.
The Scandinavians, who COM
prise one-fifth Of the states citi-
zens, were completely ignored.
He was first made delegate,
but refused this unimportant,
though for a Negro hattering, po-
sition, and put the fear into the
gathering with a loud and typi-
cally Negroid speech, and was
elected to the position of presi-
Dental chairman.
There are, in the city, a couple
Of thousand Negroes, most Of
whom are bell-hops, shoeshine
boys, porters, and rag-peddlers;
hardly half-a-score Of them sup
port themselves through an hon
est trade. With a few exceptions,
the Negroes stand on the lowest
step of civilization, most Of them
are not even able to write their
own names. they choose to give
the highest post Of trust and hon.
or to a Negro than to give the
humblest to a Scandinavian. :"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-05-27

Bgssi NlsSorleul pigass
Minneapolis Negroes were -
torested b Booker 7. Washing.
toms nrst can Cor q National No
gro Business League N Juay
1900.
Q. II. comstoclk YVES nned So
IN Minneapolis IN tool for violaa-
ing the civil rights bin d rsfna-
ing 70 serve q colorod couple h
the Brunswick restaurant
Editor }. Q. Adams 81 ne
WESTERN APPEAL said IN
1855, -The colorod men Of this
country are entirely forgotten un-
"A an election time comes
me editor d mo Minneapolis
journal IN 1909 favored the bin
IN the S.ate legislature which
aimed 70 prohibit marriage hs-
tween Negroes and whites
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-05-27
Twelve Young
, MoRFons Are The
Les Amles

There were twelve young ma
irons who were friendA Due 70
their husbands. children and other
activities. the friends had little
time for special Visiting among
themselves. So. Mrs. Milllcant
Marshan conceived the idea Of a
club,
They decided on the French
name, Les Amies" because Il
was descriptive Of eomradship,
meaning IN Engliah. -ths friends"
Since their organisation IN July.
l947 tho Les Analeb have antar.
tanned their husbands with smor-
gasbords. pow-wows, etc. Last
year the young mRtrons sponsored
a boat excursion on the Donna
Mae and gave an inutatlonal
dancing party at the cienwood
Chalet.
The fSrat president was Mira
Ainicent Marahall and the pre-
sent leader is AIRS. Helen Coins.
The club q planning something
civic in the near future.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-05-27

younger women. When thers's IN
ness In the block or among har
friends. she's one OF the flrat on
hand to help out.
II Aunt Priscilla IA a criterion o.
the stock pioneers came from. Il
was good stock. ard hardy.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-05-27

In 1903, citizens in the Prospect
Park area of Minneapolis moved
to keep Negroes out Of that sec
ton.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-05-27
MINNESOTA
Blue Cross g BLr4eShield

provide the necessary hospital and doctor care 70 ts
greatest number Of people as the lowest possible cost hs
constant aim Of the Minnesota Hospital Service AmOuA
ton GLUE CrOss) and tho new Minnesota medical ssos
Inc. GLUE shield.
Since 1885, $4,000 Blue Gross Subscribers have received
hospital care made possible through the cooperation d
$4,000 subscribers to this nOaprOt community hospital
care plan.
Since the organization Of blue ssld year ago 1900
subscribers have received medical surgical care made pos
sbs through the cooperation Of the $4,000 Subscribers
enrolled in this non-prOfit community medical plan
asss University ave. S. Paul q Mlnn. Nssssr sayy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-31
20 YEARS AGO fHE {yiT EMPIRE
OCTOBER 31, 1929

the stocK makec before Exchange voted two-oa activities prompted by the overload on the machinery"
 bowling resumed on the Elks alleys Chairman these personnel changes on Skagway team Mrs E. h. eoo Petersburg w. Andrews ana d. Messersclmidt Wrangel G. E. krause An- chorage Danner Skagway
 Fred Jr returned on the North western Mrs Sorri with Fred visiting mother Mrs Grace Purdue Portland joined in Seattle by MT Sorri
 A. Tongas National Forest left for Ska the Ranger inspect that district
 Miller, Mine Rescue Foreman for the U. B. Bureau of Mines had returned after spending the had given first aid instruction to 125 men in Nome and at remote settlements.
 Smith the Juneau Womans Club an- uncheon the Coffee Shoppe Third Street.
 Mrs Aisle J. Wilson Paor returned spending month m her oher shop in the of Georgian Hotel, Seattle
 Dorothy daughters of Mir and Mrs. Roy Rutherford parties day apart Both masquerade with Miss Violet Borgette presiding At Miss Dorohys party were Elizabeth Terhune Elliott Barbara Wnn Joyce MOTIFS Jean Robertson Robert Aonot opert Blomgren White Rodney Bpby and Lloyd
 
 Miss Forences guests May Seey Amy Lou Guen Skinner Shirley Dalon Doony Judith and Phyllis Gorham Rachel Borc Berg Rae Jogenson Marion Stan Powers.
 Weather High A. rain.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-31
ALASKA DEVELOPMENT BILL

In the same mail as the above prospectors letter, another was received asking Why do you not tackle that Alaska Development Bill again and give us more information? You practically condemned It once ana then folded up like clam"
 All right brother here is why we have not gone into the subject again. We told by several very high officials to Hay low for time as the proposal as first made public was only very rough draft of the proposed act
 We took their word and again we are going to let Delegate E. L. Bartlett tell you something about that million dollars for creation of an Alaska Development Corporation He is now travelling with the group in- yestigating the fish traps problem and is due II Juneau within few days and he will tell you some thing about It reported that today the Delegate will appear before the Chamber of Commerce at An chorage and state his position in opposition to the Alaska Development Bill in its present form
 Last week. in Seattle, Delegate Bartlett appeared before the Alaska Division of the Seattle Chamber o and declared that the plan put forth by the Interior Department was the "darnest dream anyone oo,r drean,ed on Capitol Hill" meaning Capitol Hill in Washington, D. c.
 According to our Delegate the bill would never mass the Bureau the Budget in its present or any similar form The Delegate said "that means the President would veto it if by chance it should pass both houses of Congress
 The Delegate further declared the measure woulo set Alaska back at least five if it is ever lntro duced in Congress.
 Now you have it brother, your answer to youl o,estion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-31
MASONIC FUNERAL FOR FRANK ". BARR

It has been announced that Frank w. Barr, of Tenakee, who died recently in St. Ann's hospital is to be buried in the Masonic plot of Evergreen cemetery.
 Wallace Barr, brother of the de- ceased, called from Seattle request ing that the remains be inferred in Juneau and that he be accorded Masonic funeral. The service will be conducted by the Masons in Charles w. Carter Mortuary at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, and with the lodge being officially opened at 1:30 in the Masonic Temple. Ritualistic work will be in charge of Rev. Willis R. Booth, who will also deliver the eulogy, and solos will be given by Ernest Ehlers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-31
A LITTLE WORD OF PRAISE

Sometimes, yes sometimes, newspaper receives a word of praise for something it has done For in- stance in Sundays mail to the Editor of The Empire was the following:
 Editor of The Empire-You must be sourdough. You did not get excited the report of the gold find at Fishwhee You simply gave the news as you received it and did not fill your sluce box with shov- eed reports warranting stampede
 You MT. Editor, know well as do that the section in the Fishwheel was prospected, then mined years and years ago and if there is any gold left it has been washed down from somewhere but in itself does not warrant stampede Another thing, who ever heard of gold being found in the Yukon River? The tributaries of the Yukon have all pro- duced gold and still producing.
 The reported nuggets found in the Fishwheel area, to my belief do not warrant any stampede or in fact any over-exctement. The nuggets, as far as The Empire reports said to have been pocket or poke worn Pocket or poke wears off the secondary metal
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-31

coating on the gold and smoothes and polishes it. Gold when transported in water is rounded off but not polished
 That brass nugget reported in your dispatches from Fairbanks might have been filing from one of the old sternwheeers operating on the Yukon It was reported found on top of the silt which in itself is hard to explain as, like gold, brass tends to sink to bedrock. have mined in the Fairbanks district the Klon- dike Eagle Circle and Fortymile districts but from what have learned from your dispatches, the Fish wheel find is nothing to get excited over, although would like to see one more Klondke found before oay me down to sleep.p would be in it, shovel pick stove and grub.
 The above letter is signed by T. F Babcock, old time prospector'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-31
Daily Lessons in English v v. [. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN singular plural, according to the context No possible Various ARE possible"
 OFTEN MIsPRONOUNCED: Hundedth. the in -dredh
 OFTEN MISSPELLED: Monetary; AIRY, not FRY.
 SYNONYMS: ksomeness resomenes mon otony
 WORD STUDY a wordth and it yours Let us Todays word RAUCOUs dagreeaby harsh sdnt Ponounce ra-ks A in a voice."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-31
TOM wALsH's FIGHT

Sullivan died shortly thereafter, and almost immediately Blackmer's lawyers arranged to bring him back -reportedly with an understand ling that he would escape a jail sentence. Now 80 years old, but in excellent spirits and good health, Blackmer flew back on Strato- liner.
 Bleckmer has powerful friends in the U.S.A,, among them COP. Senator Millikin of Colorado, who was partner in the law firm that originally handled Biackmer's af- fairs. Millikin, despite a difference in politics, is close to eX-Senator Ed Johnson, Colorado Democrat, who recommended the appointment of the U. s. Attorney in Denver. Max Bulkeley.
 And it was Bulkeley who inform ed newsmen in Denver that it would be "inhuman" to send Blackmer to jail
 He has paid his penalty the U. IS. Attorney pleaded. He has made good all the income taxes he evad- ed and paid heavy penalties and fines. I will not ask that he be sent to jail"
 The venerable Senator Tom Walsh of Montana, having spent a good part of his Senatorial life unearthing the skulduggery of Hen ry Blackmer and his cronies, had joined with Senate committee in describing that skulduggery as:
 The ill1gotten gains of a con- temptible private steal, the specu- lations of trusted officers of great industrial houses. plferine from their own companies, robbing their own stockholders. the share of the poodle coming to one of the free
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-31
THESE DAYS
GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY THE SOCIALIST ERA

The aftermath of the war has produced a struggle among var ious types of socialism. But these doctrinal quarrels are merely schis-
 matic It matters little. in the long
 run, whether socialism is accom-
 plished by the totalitarian meth
 ods of the Bolsheviks as practised
 by Stalin or by the go-slow Fabian
 methods of Cripps as employed in
 England. The MarXism of Tito is of
 the same brand as the Marxism of Stalin; their differences are in the
 realm of human ambition. It is in- teresting that in the United Stat
 es, opportunists are already leap- ing on the Tito bandwagon, as they piled on the Stalinist bandwagon
 when to be a fellow-t traveller was
 advantageous and profitable.
 In the United States, the prin- cipal vehicle for go-slow socialism is the ADA, new, but effective
 organization, which is already re-
 presented in Congress, in the Ad- ] ministration and in various state governments. The following are the officers of the ADA.
 Hubert H. Humphrey, acting na- tional chairman; Joseph H. Rauh, | chairman, executive committee;
 Paul A. Porter, Franklin D. Roose-
 welt, Jr., George Edwards, Hugo
 Ernst, Emil Rieve, vice-chairmen:
 Louis H. Harris, treasurer; David Ginsburg, secretary, national board; I Ethel S. Epstein, national finance
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-31

for France. later was indicted on six counts for perjury and tax ev- asion to the tune of about S2,000,- GOO.
 Blackmer, then President Of the Midwest Refining Co.,. together With Sinclair and Robert Stewart of Standard Oil, formed the Contin- ental Trading Company which pur- chased about 100000 barrels of oil for $l.50 a barrel and then sold it to their own companies for $l.75 Sinclair used S230000 of the profits from this deal to bribe Secretary Fall Another Sl80,000 of profits went to the Republican National Committee in the form of liberty bonds, and the Committee tried tc get high-ranking Republicans to ex- change the bonds for cash. Andrew Mellon was sent $50,000 of the bonds, but sent them back, &C., companied by gift of S50,000 in cash.
 Blackmers share of the poodle was found in the form of S75000t in liberty bonds in a New York strongbox after he had fled to France.
 The government made various ef- forts to bring Blackmer home, but the French government refused Co extradite him and he remained there, living in the lap of luxury for 25 years, thumhing his nose at the nation which had made him rich and which he had cheated. Last summer, Danny Sullivan former COP. Colorado politician who dug up the income-tax evi- dence against Blackmer, told friends in Washington:
 Henry Blackmer will never come
 back to this country while I'm alive"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-31
ECHOES OF TEAPOT DOME

On the other hand, here is the ex- perience of man who had the money to hire lawyers and to live in luxury abroad-one Henry K. Blackmer, multimillionaire oilman who fled to France to escape be- ing questioned in the Teapot Dome scandal.
 Some of the others who remained in the United States went to jail for their connection with Teapot Dome and the Continental Trading Company. Albert Fall, Secretary of the Interior in the Harding Cab- inet, served his sentence. Harry Sinclair served time for refusing to answer the questions of the Senate Committee. But Biackmer ducked