The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 22, 1938, Page 6

PAGE SIX U. S. NAVAL REARMAMENT RACE IS FIVE YEARS BEHIND LEADERS By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—All this talk of the United States building “a navy second to none” to =| edo draw the old boy back into! tion, was slow to take alarm. He} failed to build even all the treaty allowed him to have. U. S. Gets Underway In 1934 circumstances conspir- Social Calendar SATURDAY— Reception for officers of U.S. S. Dunlap. 5 P.M. Mayor andj Mrs. Willard M. Albury. “o- SUNDAY— H Cocktail Party honoring offi- | cers of U. S. S. Dunlap. Home of John Delgado. | o i ‘the’ tlie-see-saw naval race that even | MONDAY— then was in the making. | War clouds were gathering in} Europe and the Far East, and con-/ ae @féss was trying to find some- That treaty halted the mac building race the ‘world, id seen until then, and established the, TYatio among the three leading naval powers at 5-5-3. It meant Great Britain and the United States each could maintain 15 battleships to Japan’s 9, and the fest of their fleets in like propor- tion. The British and Japanese were happy to sign on the dotted line back in 1921, because the race was getting tough, and Uncle Sam was about to go away out in front ‘with« the mightiest fleet ever known. What It Cost Your Uncle _ They were glad, indeed, to Serap hundreds of millions of ; Worth‘ of blueprints—mere navies ¢ aper—and in turn per- Suade Uficlé’ Sam to scrap seven bat under con-/ $ftuction, plus plans for three more. = The 1921 treaty was renewed in continuing the old ratio for) six years. And why not? The} world was a fairly peaceful place live in about that time. Bit by 1936, things had chang- ed a good deal. Hell had popped it Ethiopia, was even then pop-| in Spain, and was about to China. dapan decided she could not Signing any more treaties, and notified the world she would be through with agreements on 1, 1937. Exactly a year) ago, therefore, the race was on) ih earnest all over again. » There had been plenty of indi- cations that the Japanese would } be unwilling to sign up again long! on is fact both the where to spend billions in relief} imoney. On top of that, our navy} was getting no younger. Calculating the effective life of | a battleship at 26 years, the first | of our battleships would be too: old to fight by 1938, half of them j would be unfit for modern war-} fare by 1942 and the whole line of | battleships would be obsolete by | 1949. The rest of the fleet was! aging accordingly. i So congress passed the Vinson- j Trammel act—a law authorizing! the navy to build up to par with the British fleet and justify our} slogan, “a navy second to none”. | The navy got some $300,000,000 to start building and by 1939—if the | whole program goes through—j the navy will have spent mee than a billion dollars for new , A New Program To’ make our position secure, the navy now wants to fniish the program started in 1934—and to; Dance honoring enlisted per- sonnel of U. S. S. Dunlap. Cuban Club. 10 P. M. —O- TUESDAY— Cocktail Party honoring offi-; cers of U.S. S. Dunlap. 8:30! P. M. Home of City Coun-! cilman and Mrs. Jim Roberts. } Dance honoring officers of U. S. | « S. Dunlap. 10:30 P. M. Coun-: try Club. Open meeting Key West chap-;| ter, Pan American Poetry’ Society. 7:30 P.M. Home of! Captain and Mrs. W. L.! Johnson. | ae | WEDNESDAY— | Benefit Community Clinic; Show. Palace Theater. | Arranging For. i i! College f one |i (Speeid? téi tke! Citizen TALLAHASSEE “San 22Phe | annual sophomore “hop” set for | February 42th will dead off the; _ PEDRAZZINI, pictured above in a Ford V-8, is getting the checkered flag at the finish line near Buenos Aires as winner of the 1,000 mile Argentine road race, which he drove at the average speed of nearly a mile a minute. His {At The Stores SY fifth places, and six additional Fords ‘were among the 16 cars that finished in the money. Twenty-eight Fords were among the 44 cars that started. In addition to Fords, the field in- cluded eight cars of American and three of foreign manufacture. elapsed time over a big circle route was 16 hours and 51 minutes. Rules of the race permitted no rest periods for drivers, and Pedrazzini stopped only tc refuel. He was followed across the finish line by other Ford ‘V-8 cars in second, third, fourth and SeSSSeS SS eee ee SCoooeeeeS Ol Sierdn ‘Abrivés’ In Port Power Béat-Heton, Captain Eu- start a brand new one besides, It’ spring’s‘major social events(at| iene Sweéting, of the Overseas is the request for new building! that the President is passing to congress. Navy experts say the Vinson- Trammel building program will merely give the United States a fleet in 1942 comparable to the British fleet of January 1, 1937— some five years behind the pa- rade. Meanwhile other powers have put oh another building spurt. The British are taking the lead with five new battleships. .No- body knows what the Japanese) |are doing now, but gossip says! they are building three 44,000-ton wagons. The United States is building two; and France, Italy,’ Florida State College for Women. Chairman of the dance which sev- eral hundred persons are expected | to attend is Miss Dorothy Smith, of Tryon, N.C. Sophomores from Key West who are expected to attend the affair include: Misses Anna Jose- phine James, Cleo Kemp, Emma Anne Kennedy, Cynthia - Faye Pearlman, Edna Isabel Roberts, and Mary Josephine Sullivan: ENTERTAINMENT PENA’S GARDEN her deci- Germany and Russia account for!» Two- advertisements on page Japanese ‘the rest’of a-total of 20 battlechips one today tell of as many af- and British had been building up| now’ building or about to.start. (fairs at Pena’s Garden of Roses to the limits allowed by the trea: | It looks as if the military music —one, this evening, starting at ties of 1921 and 1930. Uncle Sam, | is going *round and. ’round—with | 9:30 p. m; and last until early thanks to his geographical isola-; —_—_,-- seececee PERSONAL M Robert Givens and daughter, who were spending a this morning on the for their home in Mi- McConnell, who! ith her son-in-law Wm. Foley, clarionetist with the Casa Marina orchestra, was a passenger on the bus this morn- called to his home in Phila- because of the death of no rier all apg West with friends. Hertidii Oliphant, chief coun-} to § Morgenthau, U. S.| ¥ was spending a tt ‘Mrs. Oliphant and the} in their quarters at the} station, left this morning Coast Guard plane for Miami, | er t Mrs. H. S. Klotz, assistant sec-! SS ssitt —vwe present a Chk dadidd, WE FEATURED— COMBINATIONS. LOOK FOR THE CL hh hhh ddd, * Again---We Pass In Review At “Key West’s Only Department Store” FOR YOU CAN'T BEAT OUR ASSORTMENT. SHOES FOR LADIES. MEN CHILD! 5 SPORT STYLES IN ALL LATEST COLORS AND KEY WEST’S LARGEST STORE CHAS. ARONOVITZ ——-418 DUVAL STREET——_ SII ILIIIL IIIS Das. no stop sign in sight. | i esese| NTION | eecee seco retary to the U. S. treasurer, | daughter Eleaner, and Mrs. L. Mintz, who were in Key West for! several weeks enjoying a vaca-' tion at quarters in the naval =| tion, left yesterday on the Steam- ship Cuba, for St. Petersburg, } and after a brief stay there will leave for Washington, D. C. Mrs. Louis McDonald, and! daughter Bettie Joye, who were| morning—the other, a special dance tomorrow afternoon. Jimmy Loss’ orchestra, furnish- that well-known and ac- claimed “music that pleases”— will be “em-ce” at both dances. ‘The function tomorrow after- noon is a continuation of the series of cocktail dances and will last from 5 to 7 p. m. Jellyfish are composed of 90-98 percent water. CARD OF THANKS We take this means of ex- pressing our sincere thanks to our friends and neighbors for the | many kind acts extended us dur- Transportation Company, arrived in port this morning from Miami with a consignment of freight for Key West. Brazos Comes To Port Steamship Brazos, Clyde-Mal- lory line freighter, arrived in port this morning 8 o’clock dis- charged light shipments of cargo | and sailed later for New York, taking shipments of live turtle, sponge and empty bottles to New York. The freighter Ozark, of the same lines, sailed yesterday after- noon 6:45 o'clock, for New Or- leans, after delivering 64 tons of creosoted lumber for the naval station and shipments of asphalt to be used on the streets. Steamer Cuba Arrives Steamship Cuba, of the P. and O.S.S. Co, arrived yesterday afternoon from Havana, with 15 first and three second cabin pas- sengers for Key West; 55 first cabin for St. Petersburg, and 37 first and four second for Tampa. Key West arrivals: Julie Jen- ner, Kathryn McCulloch, Kayros McCulloch, Albert P. - Nelson, Raymond Langlois, Marzelle Ket-} terly, John Welkin, Mary Welkin, Carolyn L. Boyle, Vida Porter, Raymond Hooker, Mabe! Hooker, Gertrude Robbins, Thomas Smythe, Ellen Smythe, Mark Guste, Elvira Hernandez, M. S. Friedman. The ship’s manifest carried the visiting for some time with her; ; our recent bereavement, the| following items: 41 tons parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond | jtteces and death of our beloved freight, two automobiles and 105 Baker, left over the highway, on one, Mrs. Annie E. Saunders. We S@cks of mail for Tampa; 18 tons Florida Motor Lines bus { morning, en route to their home! in Auburn,, Washington. Mrs. L. Soriano and daughter Miss Mary Soriano, who were Pending a visit with Mrs: So-| riano's brother, John A. Merrero, left -yesterday on the Steamship Cuba, for their home in Tampa. ‘Mrs. N. Oliphant, who was here visiting with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Oliphant in the naval station, left yesterday on the S. S. Cuba fora visit in St. Petersburg. \ N N N N N N N \ N N \ * N N N N ¥ resume of our THE ENTIRE FAMILY. AND CHILDREN. DAILY ADS BY LL be Lb bbb bbb kde ded ddedede i are deeply grateful for the use of the cars, the donors of the beauti- ful floral tributes and messages of sympathy. MR. AND MRS. JOHN SAUN: DERS AND FAMILY, jan22-1t von ANNOUNCING SALE AND RENTAL OF GIBB’S INBOARD POWER SEA SKIFFS Mode" OF Display Ar— Old’ Tstand “Trading Post { i i Eddie. Cantor in TRIKE ME PINK and s' Bs Depending One Pal 5 “.. Maybe He's Bald Douglas had been-prometed to} Hecklef—Who™ do. you wear the position of mopiterin his new | that-silly monocle? | ¢ j class and was us: “And! Speak Because I have 2 prayed that | weak ey = | * Heckler—"Thén why’ don’t you 7 ir the Seige Refuse It. Please. A Chinese truckman in Van- to eight?” ‘It ‘Im Again SATURDAY, JANUARY 22. 1988. | Ol Preduction Has Tepped Other Years (Ry Ammeciaere Proms NEW YORK. Jan 22—Hecord bilbons of gallons of gasolame pow - ered the nation’s trucks, euteme=- “Mother has sent this steak | Couver sent the following bill to a/ lishment the next time you take the ferry at No Name Key. back. She says it is so tough she STocer for delivering orders: could sole our boots with it”. 10 goes. “Why didn’t she?” was the sur-| _10 comes—at 50 cents a went— 00. ly reply. “The nails wouldn’t go! through”. | Says You | “They’re hired a new. motor- ‘man over at the Broad street car- ; house”. | | “Oh, really?” { “No. O'Reilly”. Herons stand habitually on one foot. Simplest Way—and Best } Lady of the House—‘Why/| | Mary! You're breaking more The local church was making a porcelain and glassware than’ drive for funds, and two colored | your pay amounts to! What can sisters were calling on Uncle Ras- | we do about it?” | tus: Mary—“I don’t know, ma’am—! Uncle Rastus—I can’t \ give | maybe you'll have to raise my nothing. I owes everybody in this | pay”. j here town now. - | Collector—But don’t you think of freight and three sacks.of mail | that you owe the Lord something | for Key West. | too? / Ship sailed 5:30 for Tampa with Uncle Rastus—I does, sister, in- the following passengers booking | deed, but he ain’t rushing me like at Key West: J. Jennie, Mrs. | the other creditors is. Jennie, E. B. Tucker, Mrs. Tuck- | er, Mrs. N. Oliphant, K. H. Kraft, | Mrs. L. Soriano, Miss Mary Soi} ISLAND INN Tiano, H. J. Hutchinson, Hiram | —TOURIST— Hammond, Gertrude Hammond, HOTEL J. B. Annis, Mrs. Annis, T. L. Cheatham, Mrs. T. L. Cheatham, 06 OVALS SEREET: ~ 4) “Where Southern Hospitality | | T. E. Cheatham, L. Bass, and a | number of second cabin passen- Mosts Northern Friends” | gers. 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