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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-26
Thieves Take SISNI
In Furs From Star

LOS ANGELES ap - Burglars
elped themselves to $4,000 in furs
lille she was gone for an hour
visiting friends. Actress Jane Wy
man reported to police
Miss Wyman said Tuesday the
hieves entered her home by rear
window and took two mink coats
and a mink stole She valued the
coats at $4,000 and IS 1000 and the
stole at $1,000
She also reported the loss Of
several pieces of lewelry from an
upstairs dressing room. but did not
estimate their value
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-26
Search For
intensified
PairoIman Unable To
Shoot Because OF
Worshippers Leaving
Nearby Midnight Mass
or Photo

MIAMI R--Search for the dyna-
miters OF houses of worship in the
Miami area intensified today after
a police guard broke up an appar-
ent attempt to bomb the llialeah-
Miami Springs Jewish Center on
Christmas.
Hialeah Patrolman Edwin Kraft
reported he was standing guard
with a machine gun when two men
drove up in an old automobile about
2:15 a. m. and stopped by the
structure
The man beside the driver struck
match. as if 10 light fuse.
Kraft said he leaped from his car
and ran toward the other machine.
The men saw him in their head
lights, made Sereeching U-turn
and escaped, he said.
The patrolman said he was ur-
able to shoot because w0rshippers
were leaving a midnight mass at
a nearby Catholic church.
Kraft was one of a number Of
policemen ASSIGNED to 24hour
guard duty at houses of Worship
after a homemade dynamite bomb
was found on the steps of Peter
and Paul Catholic Church Sunday
morning.
The attempt against the Catholic
church was the 10th such incident
in the Greater Miami area since
June. a total of So 600 has been
offered for information leading 10
the arrest and conviction of the
dynamiters.
State Attorney Glenn c. Mincer
said Monday he believed that
twisted minds" were responsible
for the dynamitings and warned
that the penalty for such acts in
Florida is death
In the past one dynamite blast
broke "a memorial windows in a
Jewish school and synagogue
Three explosions have occurred
Carver Village, a Negro housing
project. One of them caused dam
| ase. Estimated az $22 .O9e; Dynamite
planted at several other Jewish
| centerS failed to explode.
q 'sThe time has come" Mincel
said, ito warn the psychopathiC
Individual with the twisted minC
hat the punishment for throwing
| / bomb in public place is, under
Florida law. punishable by death
at is the opinion Of the state
attorney that a stick of dynamite
with fuse attached is a bomb.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-26
HANGMAN'S C0ULEE

reflection. For these men 10 con-
suit him on such q matter was
cause for sardonic mirth. but they
were speaking 10 him as Professor
Timothy Meader. But Gilson's
next word really startled him.
What we have in mind, Profess
sor. is this: That we might entrust
the money to you for keeping. This
last place that any one would susA
pect ii of being would be in the
possession of man Of your voca-
ton.
HAPPY had been eating and
4 talking, with more animation
than he often showed. to Minerva
Slaves. Now he seemed to choke
on his food. until his face grew
red. But no one else had much
time for that. Gentleman Jim's
face, thanks to his training, be-
trayed nothing Of his thoughts.
He should, he knew, have been
filled with citation. He had come
10 find some way to get hold Of
that money, and not in his widest
dreams has he expected that they
would offer it to him, urge him to
take 1t. Her. was success, without
the lifting OF a hand.
But some Ihiug had happened to
him since he haC arrived in this
/ town Exactly what it was, he did
not know. Probably it was COM
bjnaU0n of events, such as the old
man standing up and calling him
a liar, and this girl who sat next
to him now. and the fact that these
men trusted him.
| He was not even sure that, when
| he went away from here, he would
still take that money with him.
I Nor was he sure that he tcoald
take it. He did know that he was
/ somehow shocked by the thing
which had been suggested, that
| he did not want that money. His
voice, as was usual in moments
/ of stress, seemed almost to belong
10 another man. TO come from his
| lips with cool detachment.
| That is an intriguing notion,
! he confessed. THE thought of an
4 itinerant professor having a for
tune in his keepingi I'm afraid the
mere motion would bring heart
failure to me, If ! were to take il
| seriously"
But we mean it seriously
! Slaves persisted. "Ain't it a good
| idea? Even if you was suspected,
! you're not only an honest man, but
| a mighty good fighting man as
! well. The money'd be safe with
| YOU. If anywhere!"
fTo be cSntinuedl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-26
Danny NeasIe
Celebrated
Early Xnlas
Unframed For Baltimore
To Undergo Special
Treatment For l'anCreas
Ailmeni

ST. PETERSBURG F-Three-
old Danny Neagle celebrated Christ
mas early with his family here so
he could catch train Tor Balti-
more where he vas TO undergo
special treatment .or a pancreas
ailment
When he ate Christmas dinner
At his grandparents trailer Sunday
e seemed in gay spirits and the
'amily was hopeful aLoa, the out
come of the trip
But Danny got only IS far as
Richmond, Va. When they took him
off the train there. he was dead.
His father. James Neagle Of
Haines City, telephoned the news
to Mr.. and Mrs. Dave A Anderson,
the child's grandparents
The Andersons said SHORTLY after
Danny was born doctors discovered
ais pancreas was moi 'unctioning.
He almost died. Then. for two years
he Neagles spent $50 a month for
medicine to keep him alive
Friends and neighbors in Halnes
City Clipped in TO pay the expense
IF taking Danny TO Johns Hopkins
Hospital and the family doctor ar
ranged for treatment there
Two other Neagle children. jim
ny, 4. and Michael, "a months,
,lso need medicine to keep them
live, the AnderSonS said The twf
ave been placed in q home il
lakeland
The AnderSonS said they were
'orried about getting Danny's body
ack home and paying funeral eX
lenses.
THE NeagleS have used every
hing they have for their children,
anderson said. We've helped al
We can but we are at the end o
our resources. We don't know
where to turn.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-26
Rain Causes Santa
TO Postpone Trip

PORT ORANGE n 49, Children
ere peeved here Christmas Day
IS rain caused the Volunteer Fire
aen's Association Santa Claus to
postpone his annual handing out
# candy and oranges. However,
Santa promised TO make it good
he first clear night after Christ
mas.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-26

BY a new Colorado law, youths
Is to q are hired for job-training
and when "a. classified under Civil
Service and their work credited
them.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-26
.Popllla..tionI1,:ILne.
Predicted For NY

NEW YORK lR-The city depart.
ment of planning predicted Tuesday
that New York City's population
will be $3.50, 900 in 1860 and $50
900 by 1870. The 1850 census count
was 100000 persons within the
city limits,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-26

treaty Of peace is worth exactly the value that one
attaches to the character of those who sign it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-26

Not every young thing who thinks she wants to be :
movie star wants to be one.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-26

Note to hard workers 1t cost less to eat regularly
now than TO epor 10 the doctor regularly later, when
perhaps it is already too late.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-26

Nearly everybody has different recipe for
cessful life.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-26

More than 5000 women in the
country are listed as bank officials
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-26

If you but side of an issue and think there's
only sensible of action, probably need to
open your eyes bit wider and give your throat rest
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-20

JSpan has more natural hot
springs than any other country.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-20

were sung by members of this
troop last night for the evening
midweek service at the Poinciana
Baptist church.
Yesterday afternoon troop two
was given a Christmas party by
Mrs. L. L. Hawkins, leader. assisted
by Mrs. w. H. Wright. at the Poin-
ciaRa Community Center
Mrs. j. l.. Hemphill took mem
bers of troop seven on a caroling
- e 81, The girls travelled
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-20
vIsuALIzING Key WEST

Twenty-eight years ago. writer in The Citizen
visuaiized the day when the lagoon which enters Key
West at the northeastery end of the island would be
converted into yacht basin The lagoon the old days
referred the Ponds and still so designat-
ed maps of the island Reason for that that salt
obtained there commercial scale for of years
The venture abandoned at the beginning of the Civil
Warbecause that conflict off the markets for the salt
The so-caled ponds diked to keep salt i'm
poded till eyaporated and left residue of salt crys
tails. which were gathered in sacks and shipped.
Occupied Key West bounded in those days by
Angela street except in the vicinity Of Whitehead
which extended cemetery the southeasterIy
side of the island lagoon the island had two The
Other entered the island at point where the old
rins Hospital used to stand and down far in
serEnne course. where the National Bank situated
Almost all the land the northwesterly side of Ca
rohp street has been filled in and the lagoon in that
vicinity partly filled by silt and sand during hur-
rcNne. The work of filling then completed by resi-
dents who owned land adjoining the lagoon, and what
they filled belonged to them.
The Citizen article about the probable conversion
Of he lagoon into yacht basin in the northeasery part
Of lie island said that the obtained from the lagoon
would be used in building up the land bordering the
Wafer. Home hotels apartments would be built on that
lan and owners of yachts would be able to step from
thesF backyard into the craft.
--That conception about to be realized
wA the announcement of stakeholder the Key West
Involvement Company that ii intends to construct a
yasA basin in the lagoon. Whether the company
casses out its intention the day will come when the la
goes will be yacht basin thanked with structures of
va9us types Nature has partly the job so far as
hghasn is concerned and when Natures job does not
entirely suit he proceeds to improve it till meets
wiHT his approval
Presidents of Key West 100 years ago had but vague
drof what Key West would be today and we of today
have but vague idea Of WHAT Key West Al hundred
yesss hence By that time few if ayyachts may be used
anathe basin the Key West Improvement Company has
in aind may be the mooring place greatly improved
type of hydroplanes hydroplanes that will be able to
taxa 1.-The air as helicopters do today
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-20
COMPLETES BOOK: GETS
JOB ON TtMES-hERALD

Editor, The Citizen
Well, the book is finished and
row wait for contract. | crust
there will be no more reyisions.
want TO tell YOU how very much
/ like doing my little book column.
You must know how much ! love
books by this time, and shall cont
inue it as long as YOU want it. The
publishers are very nice about
sending me the books | ask for
and Bin Glib very kindly sends
me six copies of all reviews so
that | may send them on to the
publishers for their files. | would
rather do book reviewing and lit.
erary crieticism almost than any
other kind of writing. excepting
fiction. And you can depend on
my continuing the weekly column
whether or no, | get famous. I"
The other day rather, about ten
days ago, got sort Of feeling like
monetary failure the way so
many writers do when the last
work of fiction is off, so | went
around Washington and saw a few
editors. Fortunately, or unfortun-
ately, / am not sure which. the
Times Herald hired me before they
finished reading my resume, so
| am back on a newspaper again.
Am attaching a couple clips of
what / am doing for them. The
pay is more than what | received
in Key West. but there are so
many wonderful compensations for
less pay there, just being there
is one Of them. somehow Key West
got hold of my heart and it stays
there. But the Times Herald job
is interesting, of course. The ram,
ifications of Washington society are
involved, but | have two days off
week in which 10 write my
stories and do my book reviews sor
you.
I've been trying TO throw in
more children's books for the
Christmas season.. and giving
some OF the good reprints like
Bambi.
Am also attaching my reviews
for this week. | want to wish you
all such very Merry Christmas.
especially you and Mrs. Artman,
Susie, Bill Glib. and Miss Jenny
and your daddy Il trust he is quite
strong by now. and Mr.. Viii
liams and Percy, and your very
good looking al Palmer, and
Dotty, the tropical flower.
And again I'love doing my
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-20

Troop eight was entertained We'd
nss0ay sftarh6oh By MRS. TON AZ
her home on Leon street.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-20
Nary Planes Hit
Target Often

WASHINGTON, Dee. 20,-R.-
The Pacific fleet air arm COM
mander, u. S. Vice Admiral
Thomas Sprague. gave out some
figures for a T7-plane task force
during the first IL months of the
year.
II Scored hits on more than 10
thousand Red locomotives, cars
and vehicles, and on rail lines and
bridges in 45.hundred places.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-20

Th. Cltsxea Welcomes sxpFes-
sianx of the views OF las read
.rs, bur Ghe editor reserves the
rtrhs "a delete any iteBs which
are considered lihelou~ or nnWar-
rahfed. The writer's should he
fair aud enntfse the letters 10
900 words. and write on ons side
VI ahe paper only. signature at
the writer must accompany the
letters and win be published Hn-
tess requested otherwise.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-20
"oP POSES CAT
INhocuLATioN
The Citizen.

Editor, The Citizen:
ii was amusing to read that
story in The Citizen about the city
commissioners decision TO have
cats innoculated. What for? Do cats
run around the streets swapping at
peoples heels? Do cats trouble
anybody unless they are m0lestedx
or frightened? When they fight 81
get away from a person troubling
them, they use their claws, not
their teeth.
Why not pass an ordinance. en-S
failing penalty Of $4,000 line
or 10 years in jail or both tmake
i LOT, aimed at an owner Of eats
who does rot have heir claws
lnaniclired?
che commissioners must be hafd
up fer something 10 do OF taik
about when they use up their time
talking about the innoelllatien s'of
cats. VIC Is going 10 hold the cats
While ;hey are isnoeulated2 Ands
what reason is given for their n
noculalon2 lave the commissi0t
ers heard OF single case Of eats
causing hytropnoLla or Of fhfir
having rabies2 -
But if the commissioners are: De.
iermined to pass the oriinance
against cats, here is what will haps
pen, something limited by one Of Tie
Commissioners kin off the rats
and let our raj population bounei-
fully increase.
For nine years | fed cats, twiee
daily, when I resided in house
at Pine street and Palm svcnte
The cats were fed in the yard and
most of them stayed in tae yard.
During that time didn't see Of
hear rat gnawing on the premises.
have resided IL years a; my Pfc
sent address, and during all that
time | have seen only one. ration
the premises. Four or five days
after I saw the rat found it dead
in my driveway, presumably Killed
by cat.
Al my former and present add
resses ! fed stray cats that came
into the yards. Probably one lcst
in Is has an owner, but the sfHaSs
are fed by kindhearted residanlssin
various parts Of the city KHItbqse
strays and Key West win be over
run with rats.
Nature made cats the naipral
enemy of rats. Do the comrnis
sioners prefer rats to cats?
SAM HARRIS
Key West. Fla.
Dec 10, 1851.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-20
Acheson Saws
Progress Made

WASHINGTON Dec, 20, -t49
Secretary of State Dean Ache
son told newsmen that the Eu-
ropean nations have made more
progress toward unity in the last
four years than in the previous
500 years.
His statement was a reply to
critics who contend Europe must
do more for unity.
Acheson also described as a
fabrication today's Moscow state
ment that Russia has executed
two Aforementioned parachute
spies.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-20
SCOUTING
AROUND

Girl Scout Christmas parties
began last Monday and each group
in the city viii observe the holiday
season before Friday.
Mrs. Alfred Gtinette. leader OF
Troop No. 9, assisted by Mrs. Rob
ert Dopp, entertained the troop at
3 o'clock this afternoon at the Har-
ris School. Games were played and
gifts were exchanged. The group
joined in singing Christmas carols
and refreshments were served.
Troops ten, i've and eleven will
have Christmas parties tomorrow
afternoon. Mrs. Sam 10th, leader
OF Troop ten, assisted by Mrs J !.
F, Brooks, will be entertained To-
morrow at the wesley House from
$3.50 to 4.45 O'Clock. There will be
games, and exchange of gifts and
refreshments.
Troop five will be entertained
from $50 to $50 clock tomorrow
afternoon by Mrs, Neil Saunders,
leader, at the home of Mrs. ]. A.
Boza. Pictures laaen at q recent
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M e 20 ieanAr "a
Troop eievs1s VII Sc k6sf6ss Sos the
troop at her home al 2 O'Clock to-
morrow afternoon. She viii be as.
sisted by Mrs. w. E, Lenin. The
group viii make cookies Ia com.
plete the Christmas basket they are
giving. Gifts will be exchanged and
refreshments viii De served.
Christmas has already been eele.
brated by members OF troops six,
three, two, seven and eight.
Mrs. Delio Cobo entertained her
troop, number six, at the Wesley
House on Monday afternoon.
Also on Monday, Mrs. w. A.
Cox, leader of troop three, enter.
tanned her girls. assisted by Mrs.
Wee Dickerson. The party was held
al Poineiana Community Center.
Three Christmas baskets were fiji.
ed by the group. Christmas carols
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-20
PEOPLES FORUM

book column, and viii continue
ii forever and a month after, as
long as you wish.
Most sincerely,
GINGER
Angelo de T. Gihgras
Dec. II. 1851
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-20

of
at
1t Wilkinson the pilot hecner
foCeso the o.
onnadn lights in arch Of
depyp OF troops and frequently rescued from certain death capture friendly forces who
o
his opt and
M
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Pacific Theat
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fol n the in
n
In addu the above citation It Wilkinson i author to
The American
Ma&ac H tn fomeC o
ing
Ann, sc ~
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-20

Dawson, a town in Yukon Terri
tory, Canada, has an average Of
IS frost-free days a year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-20

Gugeilrno Marconi was granted
the basic British patent on wireless
telegraphy in 1897.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-20

The oyer-emphasis football can be traced to the
graduates of most institutions of learning
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-31

The centennial anniversary Of the
birth of Maj. Walter Reed, the
u. S. Army doctor whose brilliant
role in conquering yellow fever has
benefited both American troops and
the civilian population, will be OBJ
served September 13. The celebra-
tion will center in Walter Reed
Army Hospital, Washington, D. c.,
opened in 1909, which has become a
living monument to the man for
whom it was named. Reeds birth
place in Virginia-Belroi, in
Gloucester County near York River
lis now a national shrine. A later
family home, "Stoneleigh," is one
of the historic landmarks in Har-
risonburg, Va.
Graduating from the University
Of Virginia in 1867, Reed was COM
missioned First Lieutenart In the
Army in 1875. Appointed in 1900
TO head commission to investigate
the cause and method of transmits
sion of yellow fever. he began the
investigation which resulted in con-
firming the discovery that the dis
ease is transmitted by the mosquito.
Of the 18 courageous Americans
who volunteered to submit to in
incubation in the tests, two are liv-
ing today, DR.. Robert P. Cooke, Of
Lexington, Va, and James Han
berry, of Orangeburg, S. G. Major
Reed died in 1902. On his monu
ment in Arlington National Gene
terry is this epitaph: "He gave to
man control over that dreadful
scourge, Yellow Fever"
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-31
Senator Charges
PIMA In Politics

WASHINGTON Up Sena-
tor Aiken (R-VT) charged today
there is a tendency to use the
government Production and Mar
keting Administration (PMA1
for political purposes" He said
he deplored this tendency "as
much as anyone
IF it can not be stopped" he
added, lit is entirely probable the
whole program may be done
away with. This would be unfor-
tunate."
Aiken addressed a senate SUBJ
committee considering bill to
reorganize the Agriculture De-
partment. PIMA, which is under
the Agriculture Department, ham
dies the governments production.
incentive and regulatory pro-
grams, including price support,
crop insurance and soil conser-
vation.
Aiken told a reporter he did
not have the case of Jack Cowart
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-31
Manual To Help
FIGHT Narcotics

COLUMBUS, O.,-R,- Mem
bers of the governors committee
on narcotics have approved the
draft of a manual designed to
help enforcement officers combat
the dope traffic.
A subcommittee, headed by
State Liquor Director William c.
Bryant, is preparing the manual
at the request of Gov. Frank j.
Lausche.
Other subcommittee members
are State Health Director John
D. Porterfield, Albert D. Cook,
federal narcotics agent here, and
H. E. Hamlin, State Supervisor
of Health and Narcotics Educa-
ton.
The manual is intended to aic
Ohio's $500 police officers and
other in detecting users and sell
ers of illegal narcotics. The sub
committee expects to complete
the manual, illustrated with pic
lures of the effects of dope use,
al another meeting Sept. 10
The manual also will include a
description of narcotics used by
addicts, the methods of use and
distribution and the laws govern
ing narcotics.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-31
Ambassador Kirk
To Quit Moscow

MOSCOW-tPl-U. S. Ambass-
ador Alan G. Kirk has announced
he is returning to the United
State early in October. He was
indefinite about when he would
return here.
There have been frequent re-
ports here Kirk would leave his
Moscow post before winter, by
agreement with the state Depart
ment. There has been speculation
he will be sent to Germany or
Japan in diplomatic work, and ru-
mors persist here that Ralph j.
Bunche, the negro diplomat who
was United Nations mediator in
Palestine, might succeed Kirk in
Moscow.