The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 6, 1939, Page 5

ANUARY 6, 1933 FOR ‘WAR’ IN CARIBBEAN SEA FLEET W:LL ENGAGE IN VA- RIOUS MANEUVERS DUR- ING WIDE RANGE OF AC- TIVITIES By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE AP Feiure Service Writer Whe WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The| United State: navy is secretly massing for “war in the Car- ibbean sea, once the haunt of Phates and now key to the de- fense of America. The fleet sailing from west coast harbors is in fighting trim. | The admirals have “chosen up sides”. In February, the “white’ fleet will swing out around that arc of islands on the Caribbean's’ rim from Cuba to South America —and then turn about to attack. The “black” fleet will stand guard over the region. That’s the setting for the mysterious Prob- lem XX of the U. S. navy. It's Goita Be Real It’s going to be as near real war as possible, for if this coun- try ever faces attack from the At- Inatic it’s a 10 to 1 bet the defense will depend largely upon control of the West Indies region. And while Uncle Sam keeps a ‘wary eye on Japan’s ambitions in the Pacific, there may be in these new maneuvers some indication of another eye cocked on the ra- pid rise of Germany’s sea and air the Atlantic since 1934. Involved in this vital problem is: Protection of the Panama ca- nal, invaluable short route for the U. S. fieet between the oceans. Prevention of establishment of a base from which enemies could strike at the U. S, or South Amer- ica. Easier control of essential sea lanes between American ports. The natural protection of the Caribbean lies in defending the; three major passages between the! islands. Guarding the , 50-mile Windward passage between Cuba and Haiti is the U. S. naval base at Guntanamo, in southeastern Cuba. It is not heavily fortified. In Range Of Bombers There is no naval base at the Mona passage between Haiti and Puerto Rico, but there are several good harbors and potential facili- ties for air forces there. The big navy bombers at the Canal could fly the 933 nautical miles and re- turn without refueling. The marines have an air base on St. Thomas island, along the third major passage, the Ane- gada, between the Virgin Islands and the Lesser Antilles, A Mighty Armada The “white” invaders, com- manded by Admiral E. C. Kalb-} fus, will try to establish a coast! base “somewhere”. The defend-| ing “black” navy will be com-/ manded by Vice Admiral Adol-| phys Andre j This “war” will involve. 140) warships, some 600 planes, five! big airplane carriers, scores of| darting destroyers, swift, sleek} submarines and cruisers. The per- | sonnel will include about 23 ad-| mirals and vice admirals, 3,000 offieers, 60,000 enlisted men and/ about 2,000 marines. | Umpires will score the casual- | ties, gunnery and strategical suc- | cesses and failures. Submarines | will go long distances as under-! sea scouts. The air arm, particy- | larly the big flying boats from| West Coast, Norfolk and Panama, | is expected to get its toughest | workout. Marines will be in there, too, carrying out landing and base de- fense operations possibly at Puer- to Rico. | rorces a ieticence on herseif. winter visitor when he comes into Mems that take up the greatest portion of his vacation money. ‘JUNIOR CHAMBER MEETS TONIGHT \! Business meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce will be aeld at The Key West Citizen office tonight at 8 o’clock. New committee appointments are due. The mecting tonight, which it was first decided to call off because of conflicting civic events, will be held at the new location, Ceeeecenesccecsvosecaves State Hotel Commissioner W M Taylor shows how the tourist’s dollar is sliced up. re the Tourist Dollar Goes 4 i i 4 by the Florida the state for a holiday. His meals and his entertainment are the MONEY TROUBLES MAY CAUSE FRANCE TO BECOME WEAKENED By WILLIAM McGAFFIN Associated Press Feature Service Writer PARIS, ‘Jan. 6.—Democrati:; Now Germany is forging an France today is like the beauti- | iron ring—and around France. ful lady at the circus who gets the German and Italian frontiers on top of a pile of shaky tables’... both hostile. And if Franco and starts rocking back and forth. wins the Spanish war most ob- Only France is. doing it not to S ‘ i , servers say the Spanish frontier thrill the crowd but because she) wij) become hostile too. Worse can’t belp herself. Her very neck 451), if Italy retains her bases in is at stake. the Balearic islands, France’s vit- THE KEY WEST CITIZE Ne SHOUTS : CLEVELAND, Ohio — “Hands down” shouted a gunman enter- ing a shoe store in this city. “I don’t want them people outside the show-windows to see what’s goin’ on in here.” FREE BIRD FOOD FORT MORGAN, Colo.—The Jacks Bean Co. of this city has a ‘standing offer to provide bird seed free to any Fort Morgan resident who will feed it to birds in winter when natural food is not available. 7 1’ y the Honor- , One of the uit Court of the uit - hat certain during wit, between 11 rchoon and 2 noon of said day, 1 rty to, ur § more fully de- « head W runs om Two feet; ‘HANDS DOWN’ | PaGE bIVE POWELL TELLS = THE NEW AP BUILDING ROTARIANS OF il NEW FRONTIERS SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS FACE PRESENT GENERATION, ROTARY DIS- TRICT GOVERNOR SAYS District Governor Garland! Powell of Florida Rotary, who is; also director of WRUF, Univer- | sity of Florida radio station, told Rotarians yesterday noon at the regular luncheon that the “new frontiers” the American people! must overcome are in social anc economic fields. Hl ME Orme DP PRE EEE Mgitiiiiiie SQLALDURRLER EE EEREDOEIINLI PEUERAMHLE! qin ef 4 MEVWnaaat ut ut “We must devote more time to! the problems of our youth”, Powell said, “and we will find! there is nothing that can re- vy us more”. Mr. Powell told| cf his first experience with Ro-| tary, after he came to Florida a) sick man, joined a Rotary Club | and was immediately placed on! the youth’s service committee. That work helped to make him a well man, Mr. Powell related. | Fs) “It is this attitude of Rotary! i SS ae Pi. Ss which makes the organization so| The New York headquarters of The Associated Press, for 15 years beneficial to the. individual. For-| Madison Avertue, soon will move into this new Asso~ get about yourself and go in for | ciated Press building at 50 Rockefeller Plaza. real service”, Mr. Powell con-| ————— cluded. | Respects of Mr. Powell were} paid to Bill Bates, oldest Key) West Rotarian. \ Visiting Rotarians: Garland ; Powell, Gainesville, Fla., District | Governor; John S. Francis, Avor Park, Fla.; William C. Maltby, Buffalo, N. Y.; W. H. Barnes, | Clayton, Missouri; Miles F. Hol- lister, Altoona, Pa. Mr. | It’s the toughest spot the Third AT THE ART CENTER Republic has ever been on—and al communications with her North African colonies will be in grave Guests: Byron Cooke, school By JOHN FRANCIS PUTNAM @aeareeconoceguerene Eleanor Reed’s Show at! the Key West Community Art Center is a representative group- it has been on some mighty tough safety patrol, Harris School; Dr. ones in its day. A financial crisis of many years standing already had France! swinging wide when the prestige- shattering Munich deal cropped | “effect”, is an | seem that ali of her Key West! wait!” ing of the partially complete ex- up to emphasize the swing. Now pression of a serious artist. She) there’s more financial trouble and’ is a splendid watercolorist; her internal disharmony. ' purpose is sincere .and unim-! To pull out, Finance Minister peachable. She goes about her mae Reynaud has inaugurated a work with the utmost of sincer- Chore ene eee ity and conviction. The’ result is France’s last card. It is nice to thoroughly engaging, and her in- the rich in the hope that rich in- dividual style is amazingly welt @ustrialists will bring their money suited to. the Key West scene. back from abroad and. start in- She is often satisfied, how-, dustry. ever, that her own conception, Labor Troubles Over? limited by a love of .a .certain.. Reynaud said his program of 3 ironbound one, higher indirect taxes and longer applicable to all manner.of sub- hours of work is meant to help Jects. Her preoccupation with jebor as much as capital. But or- technique would tend to .make’ ganized labor called a general many of her otherwise fine, strike, although it flopped when paintings seem to be mere varia- pP;ime Minister Edouard Daladier uions on a_ theme. Apart from applied strong arm methods. the very competent handling of Many say labor has played its the “Gray Day” scenes, it would trump card. Others say, “just scenes were painted in that lin-| Poor old France has reason to gering, nostalgic hour before cry in her wine. Twenty short sunset. She would do well to. years have reversed her fortunes. see how Winslow Homer over-'” picture her after the war— ;came the problem of hard bril- mighty France who dictated a liant white tropical light in his peace designed to keep Fritz per- Nassay watercolors. _.. |Manently humbled. Germany was _ Her subject matter is repiti- surrounded with an: “iron ring” tious, for instance it would seem’ oj French allies. that Provincetown would be per- France was the topflight mili-' petually at low tide. The paint- | tary power on the continent. Ger- ! ings themselves) are honest stud- many was weak. es, but there must be high tide France also had the League of once in.a ‘while up theref Nations and the Kello; aha Miss Reed is a very fine drafts- pees rae 2 ee “ae magygwith an amazingly sure serisA4f light and shade techy: French foreign office experts st of her work has Were busily plotting the extension Geom. But her purple <f French hegemony, were dream- , shadows: “prompt mé. to look ing of a 50-year peace under) around for a few spotlights and, French direction. { color filters on either side of her _ France had a terrific war debt. | subject matter. The obvious sin-: But business was good. , She had , cerity of her work belies any | Europe's largest gold reserve and stigma of the theatrical. In was spending money on recon- truth, the colors she uses are not struction lavishly, for was not: gaudy. It is best to say that one Germany to pay the bill? ! can readily picture her sitting When Germany became ex- down to work with a chromatic hausted and stopped paying color harmony chart propped up France promptly’ marched an in front of her. army into Germany’s industrializ- | In her oils, Miss Reed has made ed Ruhr—like a landlord fore-! a studied departure from her wa-' closing a mortgage. i tercolor poncects. She somehow Above all there was a spirit of In warm cooperation between France danger. And Italy is covetously eyeing Tunisia. \ A rearmed, rejuvenated Ger- many now rules the continent. France may still have the best army but her air force is a wash- out.. Impartial experts estimate ‘only a few of her, “first planes, would be a match for the German machines, France has her Maginot line of ° eastern fortifications. But Ger- many has her. Siegfried (Anyway, these are largely nega- tive weapons of defense). line” * J. A. Ohlson, Louisville, Ky. if along A 1 Street One tlundred purteen (114) feet; es in a N. W'ly OND R. LORD, er in Chancery. JR. line. , j + | Ask Your Grocer For The league has been all but fa- 7 tally battered. France has lost her influence in Eastern Europe. ' Her-pact ‘with Russia’ is virtually void. Other Discouraging Facts France’s birth rate is falling alarmingly. She now has only about 42 million people compared ' to the nearly 80. million of the enemy across the Rhine (although France’s colonies boost her total population to about 100 million). Germany long ago stopped pay- ing reparations. And most of the money she did pay went to the expenses of the French army oi occupation. France has never recovered from the world depression. She is broke and staggering under a huge public debt. If you include the $4,250,000,000 war debt owed America, France's obligations to- , ar talled, $21,250,000,000 at the last official reckoning—and they are getting, bigger. She keeps going only by bor- rowing, and by devaluing the | franc—another form. of taxation. The franc has been slashed from approximately 20 cents to less than three cents. Will She Take Back Seat? One of the last straws is the armaments race. If she is to keep up, she must spend more and more—exactly the opposite to what she is able to do. Things are so bad some of France’s leaders are urging that she accept a second class role and concentrate on setting her finan- cial house in order. Some fear she may go dictato-| rial. They see in Daladier a fascist | if; fuehrer who will take over France's finances continue in Honor- of the t of Mon- in Chancery, herein pend- J. M. Bethel is the nd Delia Page and{ her hi ants, Ch - Case | ecial 1 by —— sy ed Sp. appointed said deer © outery to the highest bidder h, before the front door of unty Court House in Key Monroe County, Florida, on the 6th day ‘of February, is me being a rule o'clock in clock in the afternoon the following described satisfy said decree by the amounts therein | (14) of Block e (1), Two (2 ur (4) of Block , Lots One (1), Two (2) | (10) of Block’ Thirteen Lots One (1) and E Fou (4); Monroe per plat_thereof of the Clerk of in and for said »k One (1), Page | d Lots to be sold! MOND R. LORD, ter in Chancery. 20-27, 1939 SEMI-GLOSS INTERIOR FINISH Covers in one coat... will not chip, crack or peel. ERICH $2.35 PRICE, per gal. 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LARVAE (wigglers) become pupae tumblers in about one week. PUPAE tumblers becomes MOSQUITOS on the wing in about forty-eight hours. | but one instance does she retain, in oils, the sparklé and verve o1 ‘her watercolerj WOK} >; ai small andseape ¢anvas... Her work in {ail seems to be a. yeaction | in which she interests herself more } with pattem and:Stexture than | with light ‘end eolori; Shé hasjan of Jextures; the INCORPORATED The Franklin D. Roosevelt Li- brary, Incorporated, has been in- corporaied in New York for the purpose of establishing a perma- nent repository at Hyde Park for President Roosevelt’s personal pa-| admirabl pers and collection of books and} popbable ae of, coconuts, the, paintings. This is in lige with) hard, brittle, glinting bottles, the! the announcement of the Presi-| dry gingham dress are all tan-| dent several weeks ago that funds) gible and real. Her portrait work received from the publication of js intelligently stylized with a! his papers and speeches during] fine pattern feeling and a mellow! the rest of his administration! restraint, | would be used to finance such a| Miss Reed’s work is in transi-! project. In announcing his plans, tion. It promises of something! early in December, the President) wruly fine. It is with genuine ex | expressed the hope that he would) pectancy that one can look for-| continue to live at Hyde Park) ward to the final development in| where he could assist in the! :he artistic experience of this art-| maintenance of the collection) -st. The Art Center is fortunate | during his life tine and that,|in having as colorful an exhibit! upon his death, the family home! with which to start the New! would be left to the government. ! Year. | | thei i capital and debe! i eir present desperate plight. Now Nazis On Top | Today, France and Germany, have traded roles. 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