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APPLIANCE
Warehouse Clearance

AAAtAA % IA. o-oVp~s
case, . speakers, microphone stand,
complete $50; rentals, $40. Also
mobile PA systems with music play
er. sound. CO. 4445. -22
BABY CARRIAGE. de luxe; excellent
condition: $3.50. WI. 1921. rs
BABY CRIB, formica top table, double
util. cabinet, antique bedrm. suite.
Phone LO. 3-3664.
BASINS, SINKS. BATHTUBS; built
n, S25. New or used. BLOCKS
2O56 M st NV. NO. 1903
BATHINETTE. Trimble, aluminium.
pad. excel. cond., $40; carriage,
Storkline. pad, $S. ia. 1927. IA
BATHTUBS, new. used; Dullt-ln legs.
sinks basins. toilets. PEERLESS
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BED AND CHIFFEROBE, French
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BEDROOM SUITE, 7-pc. walnut. with
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Observation-Disclosures, $3.50 I'D;
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GAS WATER HEATER; slightly used.
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Phone ia. 361S.
GLIDER, Bunting: g cushions; good
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HEATER. 100 volts, GE. used 1 sea-
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KITCHEN CABINETS-4Ocs disc. on
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st. NV, ST. 442O o6s
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MEN AVAILABLE NOW
For employment. odd Jobs. yard work
wall washing, carpentry, house.
cleaning etc. SALVATION ARMY.
Harbor Lights Corp. ME. 4532.
COLORED MAN desires office clean
ing work. DE. 1913.
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YOUNG LADY
YOUNG LADY

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1920 K St. NV. Realtors EX. 1911.
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elANO-Baldwin Acrosonic spineS
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oak. avodite and ebony
EXCLUSIVE AT HUGO WORCH,
925 G st. NV.
Established 1879
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PIANOS

grands, including Steinwsy. Bald
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y ST NV. --22
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ELECTRICAL
Repairs. new work, remodeling.
Ii. 3-3661

FFNCE-GaIvanized chain link; ali
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REFRIGERATOR
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selection of good used refrigerators.
ALLlSON'S, 2209 14th st. NV. Open
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Also used bathtubs, sinks, radiators.
structural steel angles and channels.
WASHINGTON RAG AND BAG Co.
215 L st. S.W. Phone DI. SOO7,
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-27
THIS ROCK OF OURS
GILL GLIB

Usually if a car driver wished to
make a left-hand turn it meant
that he must pull halfway out into
the street and wait for the light
to change before completing the
turn. In the meantime, no car be-
hind him could 60 ahead. Thus
other cars were lucky to be able
to move three or four spaces on
each light change.
1t seems to me that il might
be practical not to allow left-hand
turns on important street intersec.
tons. To use Truman Avenue as an
example, a driver approaching
White st. towards town would know
that he must turn on Palm Ave-,
Georgia or Varela streets and enter
White at a less crowded inter-
section if he wanted to 60 out in
that direction.
Before the City puts up any new
lights, it should attempt to coordi-
nate the present ones. They are
not adjusted to the average speed
of the traffic.
And it might not be q bad idas
to consider a light al Francis and
Truman. This is q rough inter-
section for school children going
home.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-27

Perhaps this is divulging secrets
of the trade but I'm going to LET
you in on a little trick that every
reporter uses - namely, he studies
the classified advertising page each
day for news. If you want to get
advance information and enjoy
your newspaper more, I'd suggest
that you do the same.
For instance, did you know that
local club was being formed for
overweight people based on the
principles of Alcoholics Anony
nous?
Elsewhere in the U. S., the phe-
nomenal success of IA has result
ed in the formation of many un-
usual groups such as Dope ADony-
nous, Fatty Anonymous yes
even Lonesome Anonymous
You've probably read in the ma
tional magazines about the sue
cess of these various outfits who
use the IA program Of physical,
mental, and spiritual therapy. How
ever, if you don't read the class
flied page, you won't know about
their existence here in Key West
until they become prominent
enough to be worth news space.
Small town newspapers gener-
ally shun divorce news unless it is
exceptionally unusual. Most of the
divorces though are carried on the
classified page as legal advertising
The sale of bay bottom land is
required by law to be advertised.
If you own waterfront property and
desire to keep your marine view,
you should watch the legals. Other
wise, you might wake up some
morning and discover that the state
has sold your waterfront and it
is being filled-in, leaving you with
nothing but an inside lot.
Did you know that a recording
studio was coming to town? today's
classified page viii tell you that
rsRadio Frank" out of Miami plans
to move here and needs q $500
pardner.
Believe me when / say that I'm
not trying to help the advertising
department but honestly think
you'll find The Citizens ''want-ads
worth reading for their news value
as well as for what they offer to
SELL. buy, trade, or rent.
Traffic Lights
Dave Kings idea of putting traf-
fic lights at First, Fifth, and
Thirteenth Streets on Roosevelt
Boulevard doesn't sound very good.
Caution" lights might help but
"Stop" lights win pile up the traf-
fic and make it practically impos-
sible for cars to make a left turn
into the side-streets.
Last winter at around four to
five o'clock in the afternoon, I've
seen cars stacked-up from the
traffic light on White st. as far
back as the light on Palm Ave.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-27

man in the mouth and called him
"Pig!". The blood ran from the
Germans mouth, and / win never
forget the hate and fear in his
eyes. A disciplined soldier always
hates and fears a mob.
Oh, but then all Paris erupted
with joy. The patriots and sus-
pected collaborationists still fired
at each cher from the rooftops,
but on the streets the crowds
danced. and there was cham
payne. and flowers. and
kisses everywhere.
"Any guy that didn't get kissed
today" said one soldier, ''is an
exhibitionist''
All, Paris, Paris! No one who
missed her on the day she drank
the wine Of freedom ever knew
Paris at her peak.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-27

the rest of her contract. It worked
out well for both sides"
He added that nowadays star
names do not assure a pictures
success, regardless Of its merit.
Sole exceptions: Martin and Lew
is, John Wayne.
Hartman observed that the NOV
lie business has changed radically
in recent years. It is now either
boom or bust, he said.
Like the stage, you either have
a hit or q flop" he remarked.
There is no in-between. During
the war, you could be sure that
a million-doIlar picture, no mat
ter how bad il was, would pay It.
self off. But now you can make q
million-dollar picture and lose
$500, 900.
but also like the stage. when
you have a hit. IL is q big one.
The Greatest Show on Earth 10
doing business that viii place Il
second only 10 Gone With the
Wind as a money-maker."
Hartman said that the change
In the movie business was brought
about by two factors:
/. enforcement Of the theater
and studio operation. The thea
ters used to cushion the blow Of
picture losses, but now the studios
have to support themselves.
2. Television. why should peo-
pie 90 to a theater TO see q bad
movie when they can see bad NOV
les at homer"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-27
Urges Nationwide Presidential
Primary"

Editor, The Citizen:
The recent Conventions, with the
emphasis placed on this delegate
or that Key delegation, has caused
me to believe even more firmly
that a nationwide primary for the
selection of Presidential candidates
is essential for the future develop
ment Of democracy in the United
States.
At the present time in Florida,
the individual citizen has no ef-
fective means of directly regis
tering his choice for the nominee of
the political party which he sup
ports. While realize that Florida
has preferential primary and also
provides for the selection of dele
gates who are pledged to a partic-
ular candidate, even then it is not
possible for a citizen to vote direct
ly for the nominee of his choice
as his party's candidate for the
Presidency of the United States.
In order to correct this short
coming ! have introduced into the
Congress, during the last session,
Senate Joint Resolution las, which
would provide for an amendment
to the Constitution to enable each
citizen to register by secret ballot
his preference for the nominee of
his particular political party. This
Resolution provides for q nation
wide primary for the selection of
both candidates for President and
Vice-President with the same me-
thod for determining tie nominee
being used as is then used in the
selection of a President and Vice.
President in the November Gen.
eral Elections.
In an attempt to bring this mat
ter to the attention of the voters
in our State, / have taken the lib.
erty of writing Secretary of State
Gray in asking assistance in ar
ranging for a referendum or other
appropriate expression of the will
of the people of your State on the
national Presidential primary ques-
ton. Your help in accomplishing
this would certainly be a step in
the direction of better government
for all of our people. Newspaper
expressions on this subject have
been legion, but l feel that the all
out support of the press is essential
for the achievement of this end
and / would appreciate your as.
sistance.
With best regards,
Sincerely yours,
George Smathers, U. s. S,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-27
HAL
BOYLE
SAYS
BY HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK M-"D0 you re-
member in Paris when"
That is a phrase that crops up
often among veterans attending
the American Legion convention
here.
Gay Paree? The very mention
of her name brings a CLINT to the
eyes of every man that knew her
in wartime. For Paris was the
silver foxhole of two World Wars
the greatest leave city in history.
She had a bit of happiness for
every visitor in uniform.
81 was there on pass in 1918,"
says the gray-haired veteran with
a paunch. 81 sat down at a table
at a sidewalk cafe, and this girl
came over to talk to me, and
honest to God-her name really
was Chafmaine, and"
"You think Charmaine was some
thing" breaks in the younger vet.
"You oughta seen her daughter in
It must have been her daugh-
ter, because I met her at a side
walk cafe, too. She was like a
double martini in skirts, and -"
And others pitch in, and the lie
swapping goes on for hours. Every
soldier is sure he saw Paris at
her peak, and the things that
happened to him never happen to
anybody else in quite the same
way.
/ feel that way, too. But the first
time / saw Paris she was no lovely
lady in a summer frock. She was
a fierce fighting lass, with her
gown torn from one shoulder, a
gun slung over the other, and her
hair streaming defiantly in the
wind.
It was the day the Allied iber-
ators marched into Paris &.
eight years ago this week.
For days the underground French
patriots had been building street
barricades at night and fighting
running gun battles in the streets
with the panicky German garri-
son.
The Nazis began to fire indis-
criminately 3. They pulled half
dozen Frenchmen into a court
yard, tried them and shot them on
the spot The rioting only
spread A homemade bomb
bottle of gasoline-was tossed in
a passing Nazi troop truck, and
the enemy soldiers rolled off on
the pavement and died in flaming,
screaming agony. French cheers
echoed from nearby windows.
A great Allied task force was
dispatched by Gen. Omar N. Brad
ley. It was spearheaded by a
French armored division so that
Frenchmen could have the honor OF
liberating their own capital.
But the Gallo tanks numbered
slowly. Every few hundred yards
they stopped to be garlanded with
flowers, and the tankmen crawled
out to get a kiss and bottle Of
wine from the suburban Char
maineS.
Finally, the French general was
bluntly told to fight his way on
into the city or the American
Fourth Infantry Division would
march in ahead of him. That got
him moving. On the morning of
Aug. Is the French tanks and
American doughboys engulfed Par
is like a resistless tide.
German resistance crumbled
quickly, but the city was loud with
singing bullets. Every Frenchman
seemed to have seized his grand
fathers horse pistol or rifle and
begun firing it wildly at everyone
he suspected, including probably
his landlord. Mortar chipS fell
throughout the city, and no place
was safe.
A line of>sweating German pris-
oners was marched through q
haunting mob, and one Frenchman
stepped up and smashed Q Ger
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-27

HOLLYWOOD R-What is hap
pening to the star system?
put this question to Don Hart
man, production head at Para
mount Studios, which has pared
its list of stars down to a bare
minimum in the past few years.
Hartman's reply was that moth
ing has happened to the star sys-
TEN; big names still help sell pic
lures. But a big change has come
over the movie business, and that
has meant a dwindling number of
stars under contract to studios.
1--WE don't make as many pic
lures as we used to-" he explained.
"Supposing our studio makes Is
pictures a year. You start with
couple of Bing Crosby pictures, a
couple of Bob Hopes, the same
number of Alan Ladds and Bill
Holdens. BY the time you add
those commitments up, you don't
have many more pictures to make.
THAT doesn't mean we aren't
adding any newcomers; we just
signed three the other day. But
we have cut down the number of
stars, and it has worked out very
well. For one thing, il is cheaper.
We don't have to pay out four and
five thousand a week to stars who
aren't working.
"And il results in better pic
lures. We don't have to rush pic
lures through merely because we
have commitments with talent. We
can cast pictures better, by bring
ing in talent from the outside. BY
preparing a backlog of scrips, We
can get big stars. For instance.
Cary Grant won't accept a picture
unless he sees the finished script.
IL we have one ready for him. We
can make commitment with him
for several months in the future"
Recently, both Alan Ladd and
Betty Hutton left Paramount,
where each was long identified.
Hartman said both departures
we're mutually beneficial.
Ladd wanted a percentage ct
the profits, which We were not
prepared TO give him." the execu-
tive said. HE had two more pic
lures to do for US. Instead Of hav-
ing him do two pictures in year.
We gave him his freedom and be
win do a picture q year for two
years for US.
Hutton was q problem to ind
vehicles for. With every three or
four stories that were put IN the
works for her. one might pan out.
She wanted freedom TO do stage
appearances. 50 We LET her 50.
without paying her any money Tor
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-27
To1oy's
Bushes
Mirror
By SAM DAWSON

~ SrW 06WS0N
NEW YORK R-Whether by car
tel or not, the United States and
its allies have-as of today-an ef-
fective corner on the oil supply
which would be needed to wage a
major war.
They will continue to have that
corner as long as the Middle East
and Venezuela look to them rather
than to Russia.
And that adds spice to the re-
port that VIM. Alton Jones, presi-
dent of Cities Service Co., an
American firm with oil properties,
is in Iran looking over its oil mess.
The cartel angle grows out of
this:
The U. S. government charges
that seven American, British and
Dutch owned oil companies Jones
company is not one of them) con-
troll to their own profit most of
the worlds production and distri-
button (outside Russia and the
United States) with emphasis on
their holdings In the Middle East
and Venezuela.
The government charges the
seven use this control over produc-
ton to keep crude oil prices up,
and competition down.
The American companies deny
they are part of such a cartel.
They assert that their every move
outside the United States has been
taken with full knowledge of the
State Department.
The courts are asked to decide
which is right.
Whether the government is cor
rect or the companies right, the
world oil picture shapes up like
this today:
Russia is building up her oil in
dustry as fast as she can. Latest
word is that it's progressing even
faster than first expected.
If Russia steps UP production by
1855 to the goal she has set - IS
per cent above last years output
she would produce only around
ne-fourth as much as U. S. out
put last year.
Russia's figures can only be es-
timated since she doesn't tell. But
an American trade publication, the
Oie and Gas Journal, puts known
oil reserves for the world as a
whole at 1O2, 321 ,000, 900 barrels.
The Middle East reserves are set
at 81, 1920, 000, 900 barrels. The Unit
ed States reserves are carried at
&c, 121 ,O00, 900 barrels.
Counting in Mexico and Canada,
North America has about 80 per
| cent of the worlds total oil re-
serves. South America has about
Is per cent.
Russia and her satellites are es-
timated to have only about z per
cent of the worlds reserves, in
sufficient for any but minor war.
The Middle East, then, with
about half of the reserves, be-
comes a key point in any attempt
to control the war-vital supply Of
oil.
In oil production and in refining
capacity, the United States shows
| to even greater advantage. The
American Petroleum Institute puts
u. S. refining capacity at 7,233, 004
barrels a day. This is around Sc
per cent of total estimated world
capacity.
In June, the Oil and Gas Journal
says, world production of oil was
running around 1884 800 barrels
a day, with the United States aver
| aging 6,149, 900 barrels a day. The
Middle East was producing at a
rate of 2, 2O9, 900 barrels day. The
| total for the non-C Communist world
was IL ,281 300 barrels a day-one
of the strongest guarantees OF
peace.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-27
HOLLYWOOD
! NOTES
By BOB THOMAS

HOLLYWOOD R - The film
studios are supposed to be betting
only on sure things these days.
It's a current Hollywood maxim
to take no chances. Only the sure
fire money makers are being
filmed today. There is one excep-
ton to this movement to satisfy
the known public demands for or
thodox film entertainment. Oddly
enough, the picture is being made
at MGM, home of glossy musicals
and star-packed spectacles.
The film is called ''See How They
Rum" and it is the first non-musi-
cal made by a major studio with
an all-Negro cast. Its producer,
Sol Fielding, admits that the ven
ture is a financial gamble.
"The Negro audience will just
about pay for the cost of the pic
ture," he estimated. "If it has
enough quality to attract a seq
! ment OF the white audience, II
might make a profit -
The whole project began in the
mind of a young Negro school
teacher, Mary Elizabeth Vroman,
Montgomery, Ala. She tried her
hand at writing a short story con-
corning the experiences of teach
er in a Negro school. She sent it,
along with a pleading letter, to the
Ladies Home Journal. The maya
zine printed both.
Last year, the story was cited
for a Christopher award and
brought to the attention of MGM.
The studio bought the story and
assigned Emmett Lavery, author
of "The Magnificent Yankee" to
turn out a script. Signed for lead
ing roles were night club singers
Dorothy cambridge and Harry Bel
afonte, plus Philip Hepburn, an
n-year-old veteran of Broadway
shows, including "Finian'S rain
bow"
But unlike the other two all-Ne-
gro films of recent years-"Cabin
in the Sky" and Stormy Wealth
er"-"See How They Run" is not
a musical. Nor is it a story of Ne
gro-white relations, as were ''home
of the Brave" "Pinky," Lost
Boundaries" and Intruder in the
Dusty"
"'See How They Rum is the story
of a boy in the third grade" said
Producer Fielding, former news
paper artist and foreign CORE
spondent. "It could take place any
place and to a boy of any race.
But some of the events have more
significance because they happen
in a Negro community. There will
be only one white actor in the cast,
a doctor.
1--WE are taking chance, not
only because it has a Negro cast,
but also because it does not have
the climaxes of most film dramas.
It is a tender story about kind
of Huckleberry Finn.
at is being made economically,
so there is not too much risk. The
cast is inexpensive, and so is the
story, and it is all being shot on
the lot without locations. Our only
large expense would be if we went
overtime in the shooting schedule.
It is Is days." average for a big
picture: 40).