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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-29

ocToeER2s. .ls43
. Mrs. Thomas Curtis of San Fran.
cisco is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Charles Johnson.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-29
Key Vest Books Are Reviewed
At Naval Officers Vices Meeting

Key West LII story and legend theme October
meeting Review Group Of Naval Officers Wives Club
yesterday at Fort Taylor.
The meeting in charge p W. Garrett opened with her
reading excerpts Miss Marie Cappcks manuscript Key
Story" which particularly appreciated by those who attend
Cappcks manuscript the work lifetime study
the history City,
detailed and authenticated story of Key West in
of Key looking
ward with early publication Of this manuscript which
represents unreasonable value both historically from lit.
erary standpoint to community.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-29

Charles A. Rawlings, 4 writer
and his brother, Wray, arrived il
Key West today to spend the win.
ter.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-29

Mrs. G. R. Smiley's anecdotes
from a book which she has cola.
borated on with Mrs. Louise White
titled AFTER Me Cometh the Build
er" were received with great in,
terest by those who attended the
meeting. Her purpose In giving
these excerpts was, she said etc
make the trip up the Keys to Mia.
mi a bit more interesting" She told
of the founding of the overseas
railroad by Henry Flagler whom
she described as "a man of great
courage and great vision, who,
though building this railway pro-
lject in the twilight of his life, had
the knack of surrounding himself
with young men of ability"
She pointed out the difficulties
confronting the surveyors and
builders of this railway that ex-
tended down the Keys, saying
There was nothing at that time
beyond Homestead except pines
and everglades. no maps and
few charts. There were some war.
like Seminole tribes which were a
threat, and the climate was diff
cult because of mosquitoes which
,necessitated the wearing Of hats
yelled with netting, and clothing
that could be secured at wrist and
ankles. This was worn even in the
warmest weather."
Key West, at that time, was the
largest city in Florida with a popu.
lation Of citizens of culture and
background. Their contact with the
mainland was by ship, and she re-
called the pleasant voyages many
Key Westers may remember on
the Clyde.Mallory line.
At the time of the devastating
1885 hurricane, the entire United
States had been suffering from a
prolonged depression. and Mrs.
Smiley stated that 1t was not the
hurricane that caused the perman.
ent cessation of rail service to Key
West. The long bridge spans Of the
overseas railway withstood the raw.
ages of the hurricane with no dam
age to their structures as bridges
Mrs. Smiley emphasized. The dam.
age was only to the roadbeds, and.
had 1t not been that the depres.
sion had gripped all railways, in.
Guiding the services Of the Florida
East Coast road, In a curtailment
of services, the roadbed damage
done by the hurricane could have
been repaired and trains could
have been going over the Kew
West-Miami route within two weeks
Of the date OF the hurricane. Mrs.
Smiley said. Instead. the railway
with its millions of dollars of brid.
ges was sold to the Florida High |
way Commission, and the original 1
bridge structures are still in use \
She concluded her informative \
ak with a brief resume of how
certain places on the Keys receiv.
ID their names. She began with
.Slamorada, which had its incep.
ion during the building of tho over \
ieas railroad. Many of the yuungl|
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When the cry "wreck ashore" rang
out through Key West streets, mer
manned their ships and raced to
the scene of the wreck, as the
first to arrive was master of the
wreck, and it was under his direc.
ton that rescue and salvage opera
tons were conducted.
"Lost Men" by Benedict Thielen
who was termed by Mrs. r. H.
Yer cite a writers writ
er," deals with the great hurri-
cane of 1895 and is primarily q
beautifully written novel about
the plot Of man against the ele'
ments. the men being the con
struction. workers on the Overseas
railway, against the backdrop Of
the hurricane which is enc of the
finest passages ever written de.
scribing . tropical Storm.
death BY Association, 81 muir
der mystery by the Lockridges
was reviewed by Mrs.. r. Kistler
who described the beginning of the
plot in q light, amusing way en-
the background of Key
West which provided the window
for this fiction.
Mrs. Betty Garrett read from
an unpublished manuscript of FL
mer Davis which had Key West
in it. She stressed his
interest in the Key West Of the
past and his sorrow in what he
felt was the slipping away Of the
cultural ties and the original char
acter of the city.
The Book Review group was at
tended by a large number of pro-
minent Navy and townspeople.
Present were Mrs. George C. Tow.
ner, Mrs. william H. 'Truesdell,
Sonora Oscar Morales and Miss
Marie Cappick.
The Navy Book Review group
extended a general invitation to-
Key Westers for the meeting, feel
ing that the topic of Key West
books would be of general interest.
There were many expressions Of
appreciation by those attending the
review.
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Iengineers employed on the long
term project brought families Z,
1.-THE Keys, and at the point nov
known as Islamorada, Henry Flag
Ter asked If the settlement woul.
mot like q railway station and pos
office. These families, who were
the first tourists to the Keys, held
q meeting, and the name Islamo.
Irada was decided upon. They
thought it meant Isle of Home, but
their Spanish was inaccurate, and
the nearest meaning in a transla-
ton of Islamorada, which is not
an actual Spanish word, is Purple
Island.
Likewise, Lake Surprise was
named by the engineers and build
ers who came upon the inland
fresh water lake as a surprise.
And it was so named. Though Mrs.
Smiley added that it now has a
channel cut through into the sea.
The program included the nov.
els Evening Street" by Katrina
Johnson which was reviewed by
Mrs. R. Goodhart and, though il
followed an unusual theme which
|verged on the fantastic at times,
1t contained much good dialogue
and references to such well re-
|membered landmarks in Key West
as the Garden of Roses.
Thelma Strabels "Reap the
Wild Wind" was described by Mrs.
C. Bennett as an interesting point
ing up of the wrecking industry
which was one of the early bust
nesses of Key West. Passages in
the novel tell of the background
of the men engaged in the cour-
ageous profession of wrecking, of
the fast ships, built with shallow
draft to get into inlets, and of the
stout-hearted experienced crews.
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Ten And Twenty
Years Ago
A. Tskea fresh Files O.
Tho cislzsa

Key West Retail Merchants As.
sociation today adopted a new
schedule for the opening and clos.
ing of stores in this city. Stores
win open at $3.50 a. m. and close
at Q p. m. except Thursdays and
Saturdays when the hours viii be
8 6, and. 8 10 respectively.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-29

Eddie Saunders left yesterday !,
for Tavernier.
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|NeaU Books
Received By
Library Here

Mrs. Schuck has received some
new books for the Woman's Club
library. There is one that may b
of particular interest to Key West,
Iers' Sound Of the Trumpet" BY
Leicester Hemingway. brother ID
Ernest Hemingway. It is . novel
of World War II.
Twelve Citizens Of the World, y
10 series Of short biographies BY
DR.. Leonard S. Kenworthy, includ'
ing such world figures IS Mahat.
ma Gandhi, Toscanini, Sun Yat.
sen, Fridtjof Nansen and Eleanor
Roosevelt. The illustrations are
line drawings by the German ar
fist, william Sharp, who now lives
in America. The book Is publish
ed by Doubleday and Co.
A third addition to the library
shelves is q charming Christmas
story for children, title Three :
And Domingo" which Is about
John. an understanding boy, Big
Bruce, q scholarly English sheep
dog, Ingrid, q witty Swedish goat
OF Swiss ancestry. and Domingo,
q gray Brazilian burro.
More next time. Mrs Schuck
has been busy delving into Key
West literary lore for material for
the owe Book Review group this
week. all in addition to keeping the
Woman's Club library one Of the
incest place we know of to stop
and browse for an hour
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APPLY TO WE'D

The following couples have ap
piled for marriage licenses in III.
office Of County Judge Raymond
IR. Lord:
I Thomas NJ. Brooks, q, and Bar
bara Lena Haertel, 30. both o.
Miami.
Howard T. Dickerson, 10, USS
Albert T. Harris, and Doris Fay
Abrams. 10, New Lexington, Ohio
Robert A. Chapman, 50, Belle
Glade, Fla, and Joyce Lee Dula.
|ney, 20, Marathon.
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juvenile Judge
To Speak Tonight

Veterans Of Foreign Wars Posi
|3sll win hold q joint meeting with
the Post Auxiliary ut Q O'Clock to.
might ut rs Elizabeth st.
Guest speaker for the evening
win be Mrs. Eva Warner Gibson
Juvenile Judge, who viii stress the
great need Of q detention home In
this community.
All members Of the Auxiliary
and Post are asked to attend this
meeting.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-29

The introduction to her book,
which was the portion reviewed by
Mrs. Garrett, was titled where
the Tropics Begin" and 1t leads
the reader into Miss Cappitck's de-
lightful narrative style which com.
bines the color and metaphore oil
the poet with carefully document.
ed historical research.
IF Key West could, by some &C.
MUS of modern times, be laid
down In another section Of the Uni,
ted States, ticketed, labeled, bill
posted and guide booked, II would
be famous" Miss Cappick's manu-
script begins, continuing 'but Key
West is at the very end Of the
Florida peninsula and Overseas
Highway. and her beauty and
charm are not revealed to the wise
and prudent. but to those who have
the zest for discovery"
Miss Cappick describes the ar.
chitecture Of her native city as
''Key West homes are old homes,
homes silvered with age. If, by
some miracle, the old homes might
become vocal, what tales they
could tell. of Indian massacres,
of treasure sealed within their
walls, of clay tinajas filled with
Spanish doubloons found in the CT
tvs streets and of chests of gold
unearthed on South Beach buried
by pirates who never returned to
claim their treasure.
The introduction touches on ma
NY other facets of the city's past,
concluding with the summary at
Is probably that Columbus includ-
cd the island now known as Key
West in his report on the West In.
dies because of its proximity to
Cuba, lying as it does in latitude
a degrees, 50 minutes north, and
longitude 81 degrees. 4s minutes
west. If Columbus did not set foot
on this island. he certainly scanned
its palm crested beach and wood
ed interior from the deck of the
Santa Maria as he sailed around
the island Of Cuba, for in one re.
port he stated, 81 spent some time
exploring the islands In the vicinity
Of that land (Cubal." We know
that Ponce de Leon came to our
shores, and that fernando De So.
to looked upon it as he sailed to-
ward Tampa"
A review of a government CON-
Piled guide book ''Key West was
given by Mrs. T. H. Polk, who
described the chapters dealing with
ehe origins of the early island in.
the cigar industry which
once hourished here, and the fish
ing enterprises. She pointed out
that the guide book published by
Hastings House, was produced I'm.
der the direction of the Florida /
Emergency Relief Administration
With the thought Of its publication
aiding in making Key West pro-
as 1t now Is, as a tourist
center. 1t is a brief, though neces-
'arily limited, guide to the cityII
a thumb nail sketch of,
rs background. |,
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|LaUOnda Sawyer
Us Engaged

Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund H. Saw
yer. Sls Francis ST.. announce the
engagement of their daughter, La.
vonda, to Jack H. Smith. Mr..
Smith is now in the army at Fort
Jackson, S. c. The wedding will
take place about Jan. LIST.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-29

!. The largest glacier in Colorado
. the mile-square Arapaho ice
sheet - is the water reservoir for
the city of Boulder, which owns ex-
elusive rights on the ice.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-29

I Although many claims have been
made that fertile mules have been
found. many authorities believe
mules always are sterile.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-29

A. Saunders has returned form
Toledo after visiting his son-in-law
and daughter, Capt. and MIS-. H. o.
Young.
Evening star., 1953-01-28

are going to be employed to be
sure that any such people are
detected and cleaned out. 7
can promise you that our for
eign policies. our new policies,
will never to the slightest de-
gree reflect any lack Of faith
IN the ideals and the prin-
ciples on which this Nation
was founded. And let me now
in conclusion say that I be-
lieve that our foreign policies
should be open so that you
can know what they are and
they should be sufficiently
simple so that you can under.
stand them and judge them
and they should be sufficiently
decent and moral so that they
will flt into your idea of what
you think is right. These prin.
ciples of openness. simplicity
and righteousneSs-those prin-
ciples are those which are in
accord with what used to be
the great American traditional
foreign policy-that has been
our great tradition and I am
proud that we here in the
State Department and in our
Foreign Service will have q
chance to carry on that great
tradition and to live up to 1t.
And in that way we shall. I
think. deserve and I hope we
shall receive the support, the
confidence and the co-opera-
ton Of the American people.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Hope Held for virginian
Missing in Korea 7 Years
snseiuI pi,puteh 10 Ihs S,ur

LURAY, Va, Jan. 28.-Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Burner of Luray, are
investigating q second report
that their son, Army Pfc. Robert
Burner, reported missing in ac-
ton in a trap in the Chosin
Basin area of Korea two years
ago, is alive in a hospital inside
the United States lines.
The latest report came from
friend Of Mr.. Burners from
New Market, Va, who recently
was discharged from the Navy.
He told the family he had seen Q
young man in a hospital in
Korea who looked very much
like a picture Of their son.
The Navy veteran. whose name
the Burners would not reveal,
said the boy he saw was shell
shocked and didn't know his
own identity. But the hospital
lied boy was called Bobby"
the informant added.
On the basis of this infornAa.
ton they asked Harry B. Dyche,
Luray Mayor, to write Stars and
Stripes newspaper and sent q
picture Of the son. He has done
so.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
The Positive Aspect
OF Our Foreign Policy

Now the other purpose Of
our foreign policy, and this is
the positive aspect, must be
to create in other peoples such
as a love and respect for free
dom that they can never really
be absorbed by the despotism,
the totalitarian dictatorship
of the Communist world. The
Russian Communists, as I've
pointed out. have swallowed a
great many people to date,
approximately 100000. 900, but
you know there is such q thing
as indigestion. People don't
always get stronger by eating
more: sometimes they eat more
than they can digest and then
they get weaker instead Of
getting stronger. And already
there are signs of indigestion
within the Russian Communist
world. The purges and the
trials that are going on in
Eastern Europe. the whole
sale executions that are going
on in Communist China, all
these things show the people
are restive and are unhappy.
The fact that the Communist
rulers feel that they have to
resort to these tactics of ter
rorism in order to make the
people do their will that fact
is q sign of weakness, not a
sign of strength. And great
deal can be done to make these
peoples. these captive peoples,
retain such a love Of freedom
and independence and to bring
such a love and determination
to keep independence on the
part of these peoples that I've
talked about who are menaced
that they can't be swallowed
and digested by Soviet Com
munism. And perhaps In time
the indigestion will become so
acute that it might be fatal.
Now what's our job and our
task in that respect? Our job
is to serve our own enlightened
self interest by demonstrating
by our own performance, by
our own examples, how good
freedom is and how much bet
ter it is than despotism Is.
Now who can put on that per-
formance, that demonstration
to show that example? The
only people in the world that
can do it are you, the people
of the United States of Amer
lea. And it means that each
Of you has a task in foreign
policy. Foreign policy isn't
just something that's conduct
ed by Secretaries Of State and
Evening star., 1953-01-28

by ambassadors in different
parts Of the world; everyone Of
you has got q part in making
q successful foreign policy for
the United States, because
whether or not we peacefully
succeed will largely depend
upon the demonstration you
make as to the value and pro-
ductivity of liberty. You must
work hard enough at whatever
your task is to show that free
dom is more productive than
slavery. You must be resource
full and inventive enough so
that our instruments of peace
and>if need be war are better
than any that can be invented
by the deSpots and their cap
tives. And we must be COM
passionate and friendly and
good neighbors because people
who are wholly selfish are
never an attractive people. #
each Of you will recognize that
you have a part to play in
making freedom seem desiTa-
ble, then all of us together
wilk make freedom so sought
after throughout the world
that the Russian Communists
will be bound to fail in their
strategy Of encircling us by
swallowing up the rest of the
world.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Communist Threat
Is Deadly Serious One

Well, you may say, do we
need to take this threat Seri-
ously, and the answer to that
is that the threat is a deadly
serious one. President EiSen-;
hover recently said this Ma
ton stands in greater peril
than at any time in our his
tory. Any American who isn't
awake to that fact is like a
soldier who's asleep at his post.
We must be awake, all of us
awake, to that danger.
Now already our proclaimed
enemies control one-third of
all the people of the world.
I've here behind me a map
which shows the vast area
which stretches from Kam-
chatka near Alaska, the North
ern Islands of Japan and right
on to Germany in the center
Of Europe. That's an area
which the Russian Commu-
niSts completely dominate. In
that area are 800 million peo-
pie and they are being forged
into a vast weapon Of fighting
power backed by industrial
production and modern weap-
onS that include atomic bombs.
If this block Of 800 million
people is compared with our
population, about $50 million
people, 1t means that If we
were alone against them, the
population odds against us and
In their favor would be 7 to l.
Now in the case Of the First
World War and the Second
World War there was a big
coalition on our side against
the despotS so that the man
power ratio then was about 7
to in our favor. It wouldn't
be pleasant to have a war In
which the odds against us were
Z to /.
And another important fact
Is that this vast area of Asia,
Europe, which our enemies
control, has within it all of
the natural resources which
they need. On the other hand.
we are. largely dependent on
overseas goods. For example.
our steel industry which is
OF course basic, in peace pro-
duction and war production,
depends very largely upon i'm
portations Of manganese from
overseas. So, If we were alone.
not only would the manpower
odds be terrif1cally against us,
but we would be at a great
disadvantage in the produc-
ton Of the weapons that We
needed.
Evening star., 1953-01-28

have it soon rather than later
because they said time is run
ming against us. President
Eisenhower is absolutely op-
posed to any such policy and so
OF course am I and all Of my
associates in the State Depart
ment and the Foreign Service.
We shall never choose a war as
the instrument Of our policy.
It says in the Bible you re-
call that all they that take
the sword perish with the
sword. And even people who
do not accept that as a doc
trine Of faith. they should at
least remember that twice
within our generation great
and powerful deSpots have
taken the sword. Germany
and Japan. for example, have
taken the sword with SEEM
tngly overwhelming power only
in the end to perish miserably.
Now Of course we know that
our enemies do not have moral
scruples, in fact they deny
that there is such a thing as
a moral law. They preach vio-
lence. Stain has said and it
is taught to every one Of his
Communist followers that the
world Transformation which
they seek cannot, they say, be
achieved without violence. And
Stain went on to say that
any who thought that their
goals could be achieved peace
fully have either gone out Of
their minds or are traitors to
the Communist cause. We
know that they've used vio-
lence, at least on q local scale
in several countries of the
world including Korea and
Indo- China. They're building
up a vast military machine;
they've rejected United Ma
tions proposals for an armis-
tice in Korea and they've
rejected United Nations pro-
posals for effective limitation
of armament. Therefore we
ourselves must have a strong
military establishment and we
should encourage the creation
Of military strength among
our friends but the purpose is
never to wage war but only to
deter war. Not only shall we
never not invoke war to
achieve our purposes but we
shall try to the best of our
ability to stop the wars that
are now going on in the world,
notably these wars in Korea
and Indo- China. Today these
wars go on because the enemy
thinks he's getting an advant-
age by continuing the war. I
believe that Gen. Eisenhower
will find the ways to make the
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Conduct and Example
Is Up to Individual

The point I want to empha-
size is that the heart of a
successful foreign policy is our
national conduct and example
and that is a matter for every
individual and not just the
diplomats. So far as your
Government is concerned, you
may be sure that 1t will not
be intimidated, subverted or
conquered. Our Nation must
stand as a solid rock IN a
storm-tosSed world To all
those suffering under Commu-
mist slavery, to che timid and
the intimidated peoples Of the
world, let us say this, you can
count upon us. Together with
the other free peoples CT the
world we can, I am confident,
peacefully achieve an honor
able peace.
Now I suppose some of you
are wondering whether the
State Department can really
be trusted to take a strong
lead against Russian COM
muniSm. There have been
some shocking revelations
which showed that some Com
munists and Sympathizers have
found their way into high
places and betrayed secrets
even that Of the atomic bomb.
I can assure. you that all of
the resources Of Government,
and that includes the FBI,