The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-04-11

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been whipping up any more stor-
les about what sin-ridden town
we have here. There was quite a
crowd on the corner at Duval
and Caroline and policemen all
over the place. l saw Doctor
Comfy getting out of his car,
carrying instruments and gauze.
1 dashed up to him and Mike
wanted to know who had been
hurt. Mike said, nobody, yet.
But you will get killed if you
do not wake up before you start
rushing along Duval street"
looked at my watch. 1t was near
| ly nine thirty and / had no bust
ness being abroad that early, but
it was almost time to watch the
President drive by on his way to
Washington.
The President was punctual.
Right on the dot. He was tanned
and looking fit, but. it is my
guess that he would much rather
just stick around Key West than
get tangled up with lot of those
Jackasses up. in Washington
again. Ofscourse, when you are
1.-The President you do not have
Emuch choice and that is why
figure myself a heap better off
than Mr.. Truman. l 90 not have
| to leave Key West unless the
spirit moves me.
Anytime the spirit might move
me | will most certainly not goi
to Washington. Every time l have
ever been there the weather has
been foul. Once I slipped in
some slush up there and like to
broke my knee-cap.
The only appeal Washington
has ever held for me is that
there is an appalling amount of
eligible women and few eligible
men. Through the years / have
noticed that any number of the
least eligible men are Congress
men and Senators. About the
only thing some of them seem
eligible for is oblivion.
Now that Mr.. Truman is in
Washington, l suppose the anna
teur crime busters across the ma
ton will begin exposing the
Ecapitol as racket-ridden city.
They certainly used his presence
here to play up the fact that we
are a pretty desperate bunch of
lhoodlums
1t smacks of Republican sour
grapes and perhaps our critics
are peeved because our police
ibid not descend upon the Little
White House and pinch Harry
for playing poker.
/ Robert Montgomery used to be
fine movie actor and he is a
radio commentator, than which
there is no whicher. He is al
present trying for some sort of
academy award by blasting
gamblers and gambling from
coast to coast over the airlanes.
He was much more convincing
on the screen.
| A few days back he got in his
ticks against Key West, and it
sounded like he is still using
lines whomped up by his Holly
wood screen writers, who get
paid for their brilliant magma
tions. All his broadcast lacked to
make Orson Welles look like an
| amateur was having the Presi-
dent blackmailed, or kidnapped,
as local gendarmes shot it out
with racketeers while Guy Garlic
!, ton stuck UP the bank and Vic
tor Lang won two hundred
Thousand dollars at one of the
1 fourteen dice tables at Sloppy
Joe's.
! Robert had the President walk
ing the entire length of Duval
street every morning. past a
pretty Sordid series of suffered
| gambling joints that are open 81
hours a day! 1 guess they just
closed so the President could
walk down Duval street every
morning.
1t is wonder to me that the
President, or any other citizen,
would have the courage to walk
along Duval street under such
vicious circumstances as any
minute Joe Lazarovichi, or some
body, is liable to rush out and
open up with machine gun,
lust to get in little early morn
ing target practice.
would not know about it, as
was busy robbing the Post Of
flee, at the time, while the Lady
h-therflower- in-her,ear an d
''Puddy" were acting as look
outs. Cyril Marshall was driving
my getaway car. 1t is only
rumor that he is in the Virgin
Islands. OF course, we had to rub
out a few guys from Marathon
who tried to muscle in.
Carleton and the rest of US
all met later If, our secret hide
out on top of Dukes Drive-In to
split the swag and invest it in
few more roulette rooms. AS a
polite gesture Land and Dorothy
bought Mayor Eisner a new
home and two new Cadillacs and
Guy gave every member of the
police force a new Buick and a
new radio so they could be sure
and hear what Mr. Mnntgnrnarv