The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 12, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR -- SOCIETY : Harris P.-T. A. Met Yesterday The regular meeting of Harris |Fern Chapter 'Meets Tomorrow Regular meeting of Fern Chap- School P.-T. A. was held Wed- ter, No. 21, O. E. S., will begin nesday. In spite of the weather, | at 8:00 o’clock tomorrow night. there was a good number of par-!_ Members will have as their ents present, providing encour-|M0nor guests, Mrs. Maybelle penentiin tie clticors inches | Ramey, chairman of the Masonic Be Sagi *| Home Fund; Miss Clara Marik, As the roll cail indicated, the! grand instructor; Misses Helen IB s, with Mrs. Williams as; teacher, should be one of the most! active rooms in the school this year, having had the highest! percentage of attendance for the downstairs rooms. Mrs. Charlotte Haskins had the greatest num- ber present of the lower grades. Mrs. Mary Ealey’s and Miss Jen- nie Mae Johnso: rooms started the year off by having a tie for the greatet number but Mrs Ealey’s class walked off with the highest percentage of attend- ance. Mrs. Roman Rodriguez thanked the lunch room workers for the splendid performance for the school as a whole. She led a dis- cussion on ways of making money, both for the lunch room and the P.-T. A. A good many splendid ideas | were brought out and if the first | meeting is a barometer of. the} coming year, there is to be a! mighty full program for Harris School, with every member of the organization working, it was predicted. W. E. Fowler, new principal, brought out many good ideas for the benefit of the school and stu- dents as a whole and he pledged his support to the P.-T. A. Mrs. Haskins and Mrs. Wal- | ter Clawson were named as the committee for the arrangement of a memorial service for W. C. Duncan, former beloved principal of the school. At the service a; public unveiling will be held in the schbol auditorium. Morrow-Borden Naptials Tuesday Marriage li se records at county judge Raymond R. Lord’s office this morning brought news of the marriage performed on Tuesday of this week which unit- ed John E. Borden, son of John A. Borden, of Miami, and Nelle V. Morrow, of North Carolina The couple were married by Judge Lord with friends of both in attendance in the judge's of- fice. They left for Wsahington. D. C., where the groom is now employed. NATIONAL DEFENSE (Continued from Page One) have been hastily thrown to- gether, without thinking any- thing through, Even today we don’t know just how much terri- tory we are doing to defend. * * Of course money is essential for an adequate defense plan. The public debt is already fifty bil- lion dollars. When we began the World war it was less than a bil- lion. The excess profit tax will raise less than two hundred mil- lion, and the deficit is going to be six billion. In the absence of an-adequate tax plan, we face bankruptcy and inflation. Not a cent is being saved on domestic expenses. The New Deal has shown its complete incompetence and lack of interest in any sound fiscal program essential to de- fense. The New Deal is still inspired by hostility to industry, and an unwillingness to abate any single feature of excessive government regulation. These regulations have slowed the construction of our navy and hampered all in- dustrial mobilization. The President is unwilling to create a War Resources Admin- istration, and give its head full discretion to develop and carry out an industrial mobilization program. While Mr. Knudsen is doing an excellent job, his posi- tion is purely advisory, and the moment a New Deal influence affects the President, Mr. Knud- sen’s plans may be upset over- night. Thus was the first Stet- tinius commission abolished after the first two months of the pres- ent war in Europe. If the country wants a care- fully thought out program of na- tianal defense, soundly and ade- quately financed. decisively ad- ministered. it cannot hope to get it from the present administra- tion. Tomorrow: Republican View on the “New Deal”. __ DIVORCE ACTION — Records at the county court- house this morning revealed that a final divorce decree had been handed down by-the circuit court in favor of Mrs. Lelanette Adelia ‘that but no action taken. ‘ed. Livingston, Esther Lecain and Ann Hutchins, grand representa- tives. All members are requested to be present. All visiting Stars are cordially invited to attend. Left This Week For Gainesville The following collegians of Key West left earlier this week for pursuance of studies at the Uni- versity of Florida at Gaines- ville: Hilary Albury, Jr., Ignatius Lester, Jeff Knight and Paul Mesa. These left in a car on Monday. Geraldine Saunders Baptized Geraldine Annette Saunders, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Saunders, was baptized j last evening, during mass service at First M. E. (Stone) Church, by Bishop Arthur J. Moore assisted by Rev. R. Z. Tyler, district superintendent of Miami district. Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Riviere stood as God-parents. COUNTY ASSESSOR TAKES EXCEPTION (Continued from Page One) general on matters concerning certain Monroe county bonds. The object of the conference was to determine the status of placing the bonds under provisions of the Kanner Act. Chairman Carl Bervaldi an- nounced that he had received in- formation to the effect that the WPA boulevard resurfacing proj- ect had left the Miami office for Jacksonville, where, it was ex- pected, final approval would be given. The clerk was given power to proceed with letting of oil contracts for the work upon arrival of the project here. Julius Stone, executive officer of the Key West Guard, appeared before the board and explained the purposes of that organiza- tion. He asked that a commi: ioner be appointed to work with nim and a member of the City Council to seek sponsorship of a project to provide uniforms. Commissioner Monsalvatge was appointed. Chairman Bervaldi reported the Monroe County School Board was ready to turn over the deed to the monument property at Islamorada. The commission- ers decided, however, that the county did not want the land. Accordingly, commissioner Curry was asked to continue his efforts to have the land cleared as orig- inally ordered. The county is to clear the monument property un- til the first of next year, follow- ing which the school board will take over. Subject of a half-mile road to be cleared on No Name Key in order that the school bus could pick up children was discussed, Depository accounts were read and approv- All commissioners were present at the meeting. GOLD STILL LURES (By Associated Press) COLOMA, Calif—The scene of John Marshall’s original dis- covery of gold in California is at- tracting so many tourists that a crew of 35 men is improving the site. Seats , picnic tables and camp stoves are being installed. CHAMPION TWO-MILER (Ry Associated Press) LOUISVILLE — Four times each working day for the past 35 years, John J. Barry. publisher of the Kentucky Irish-American, has walked the two miles _be- tween his home and office. Barry figures he has walked more than 85,000 miles, back and forth. CHAMPION BY PROXY (By Associated Press) WASHINGTO! Towa — Mrs. Dell Walker has reason to be proud of her cooking Her daugh- ter, Marjorie. 18, and her son, Thomas, 15, were chosen Was ington county's 4-H club health champions for 1940. ll in action charging ex- r cruelt¥ against her hus- band, Samuel Louis Russell, both of Key West. CONVENT OFFERS EXTENSION COURSE CLASS IN’ ELEMENTARY SPANISH HAS MET U. OF FLA. APPROVAL THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Hundred Thousand Eile tn N.A.C. Aviation Coarse The Head of the Extension’ Classes of the University of Flor- ida has approved Sister Cath- erine of the local convent to teach Spanish 21 and 22—Elementary Spanish. These courses are designed to enable the student (1) to attain a conception of the fundamental principles of Spanish grammar and syntax; (2) to read at sight, easy Spanish prose; (3) to trans- late into idiomatic Spanish, sim- ple prose, it was stated. The classes are open to High School graduates who have not had pre- vious work in the subject. Equivalent to Spanish 101 at the Florida State College for Women, the course will satisfy the foreign language require- ment for the State College or University leading to the A. B. or the B. S. Degree. OUR DEFENSE (Continued from Page One) a navy yard, if there is space on the navy yard ways. Or it goes to one of the private shipbuilding companies that have the hard- won “know how” experience in building a vessel of this size. The plans come to rest in the |mold loft, a huge open room where the outlines of the ship are laid down full size on the floor. Over this floor swarms a small army of loftsmen, men who have spent their lives on their knees, building up wooden temp- lets. Templets are full-size models of every stringer, every plate, every piece that makes a ship’s hull. These templets em- body every hole, every twist, every bend that goes into the curves of a ship. Then, with the aid of the Na- tional Defense Advisory Commis- sion, a nation goes to work. In the heart of a mountain in Min- nesota, a man pulls a lever. A plume of steam shines in the sun as the shovel bites into the ore, a train clanks 150 miles to the docks. The ore slithers into the belly of a ship. A thousand miles to the east, it joins the coal, up irom the blackness that is under Pennsylvania. In the blinding heat of the furnace it becomes iron. More men pull, haul, heat, and tussle it into steel. It screams through the rolling mills. Huge scissors shear it down to size. In the shipyard, a man at a punch press, guided by the templet, ounches holes all over a_ sheet half as large as a tennis court. It is again seized by the rollers. bent into shape, given a special number all its own, and set to wait till it slides snuggly into place in its destined position. What Makes A Ship? A ship is 93 percent steel. But it is also copper, aluminum, lead, zine. It is wood and cork. It is asbestos, cement, glass, plaster wall board, and insulating board It is awnings, mattresses, and window sash. It is heating and ventilating equipment. And it is that little pump, tucked away 23 feet below: the deck, that delivers three squirts of oil every minute to some vital portion of the ma- chinery. 4 The Navy needs all those thou- sands of tons of material and mil- lions of items promptly. The Na- tional Defense Advisory Commis- sion gets busy and finds where and when and how that material can be obtained. What shops can turn out armor plates, what other shops can make thousands of tiny castings and structural frames. It is the Defense Commission that has to-see that this material is turned out economically and on time, so the Navy gets its ships. 7 When all the material for the million and one different parts is assembled, construction can be- gin. To see a ship being built figure on settling down at the yard for two or three’ years. “Building ships is not a production line job. It is a job involving the skills of thousands of men ap- plied to putting together the most complicated moving object that man can build. ; The job starts with the cere- monial laying of the keel, with a frock-coated, high-hatted, white- gloved “Honorable” jack hammer operator. That is about. the last glimpse of the riveting hammer. for today more and more welding is being used in ships. Not that a shipvard is the quietest place on earth, for in the ordered busi ness of the boiler shop, the ham- mering bell of travelling crane will echo the thunder of sledge on metal, as a hundred men beat machinery from raw steel. In janother shop ,a half thousand Council’s Experts Preparing Young Men for Air Thousands of Aviation Ground Jobs J (ORE than” 100,000 young men and a number of women have applied for the National Aeronau- tics Council's aviation ground school course since it was an- nounced one month ago. They are looking forward to flying jobs in both military and civil aviation, the majority showing a preference for the latter field which is a phe nomenally fast-growing one. As far as our national defense plan call- ing for 50,000 airplanes is con- cerned, some 150,000 young men will have to be trained to pilot these, and hundreds of thousands more taught how to build and main- tain the ships, their hangars and their flying field equipment, for every pilot in the air means twenty or more specialized men on the ground. ,The Government's pilot training program calls for about 700 practical flying instruction cen-| ters being established in the near future, with a quota in every state in the Union and in our possessions. Both college graduates and non- college men will be accepted for | flying training by the Government, provided they can meet the rigid requirements, physical and mental. For the flying status they must be between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six. is Before being accepted for the Government school by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which has juris- diction in this matter, the candi- date must pass a written test as will inaugurate a course in ground school preparatory work, to be issued in fifty-four weekly install- ments by mail for home study. This will prove a great boon to the air- minded young man who is material for a flying career, for (if he is reasonably intelligent) the course will enable him to obtain a student- pilot certificate. Furthermore the N.A.C. course may be taken with- out the necessity of the student re- linquishing his present job while studying the important funda- mentals. A number of active and former Army and Navy Air Service men and civil aviation authorities com- posing the faculty of the Council have cooperated in producing this very unusual course, consisting of more than 1,200 lectures and titled Aeronautics. These lectures by ex- perts in their respective lines will | be illustrated with more than 1,500 | photographs, charts, diagrams and aerial maps. The cost to the indi- | vidual is nominal—only twenty-five cents a week, and the student may drop out at any time if he finds he | is not adapted to this sort of work. Of the 100,000 men and women already enrolled. many do not | aspire to become military or air transport pilots, but seek one of the numerous positions which soon will be open in aircraft manufac- turing and transport industries, or in maintenance crew work. Others | look forward to flying their own well as a physical examination in| planes just for sport. Some of the order to receive the siudent pilot | young men wish to get into aero- certificate entitling him to training | nautic engineering, design and pro- at the Government's expense. Many | duction, aerial photography. radio who apply will be destined to dis-| operation, and some forty other appointment because they cannot! jobs about the flying field. Among meet the requirements. Anticipating | the women applying are trained this, the National Aeronautics; nurses, high school end college Council, _Inc., early in September! graduates, who hope to become Control is first learned” from diagrams. IMPORTANT? You bet! stewardesses, or obtain positions in operations personnel. General James E. Fechet, retired, formerly Chief of Air Corps, U. 8. Army, heads the Editorial Board. Captain Holden C. Richardson, for- merly with the Bureau of Aeronau- ties, U. S. Navy, and who piloted the famous NC3 on its trans- Atlantic flight in 1919, is one of the advisory experts for naval aviation. Dr. Alexander Klemin, chairman of the Engineering Department, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, New York University, is in ad- visory capacity for civil aviation. Coordinating the work of these and numerous other experts as general editor is Don Ryan Mockler, well known throughout the aviation in- dustry for the part he has played in its astounding growth. Among those who will contribute the bene- fit of their varied experience in the form of lectures and specialized in- struction are Col. Harold E. Hart- ney, who was commander of the First Pursuit Group, A-E.F.; Col. Roger Q. Williams, pioneer trans- Atlantic pilot; R. W. Schroeder, vice-president, United Air Lines; Dr. Jean Piccard, professor of aeronautical engineering, University of Minnesota, and some sixty other, aviation executives and experts. Particulars may be obtained from’ the National Aeronautics Council, Instruction Department, 37 West 47th Street. New York, N. Y. The Council is preparing an interest- ing booklet, “Wings of the World.” for free distribution. It is a pic- tured manual of today’s leading planes of all nations, and will be sent to interested persons upon re- ceipt of a threecent stamp to cover, Postage. skilled = mI polish Seay GIVING CREDIT. blades of the whining turbines. BEFORE Too LATE Others polish the twenty-five (By Associated Press) foot bronze petaled flowers that will be propellers. A roaring OAK HILL, W. Va., Sept. 12— Remember the boyish bob that torch smacks to life at a big steel tube, a “jim crow” bender warps! took the country by storm back it to the exact twist of a templet. in the golden 20’s. That fad, says The pattern makers whittle and J. J. “Senator” Knox, started in polish queer shaped little wooden |Oak Hill. He should know, be- blocks so that the foundry. can ;cause he claims he originated the cast the valves and bearings Gee & Gigs iced pcan from flowing bronze. the shears, says the first girl to Meanwhile, on the ways, the have her hair cut in the mascu- steel framework of the ship be-'jine fashion was Miss Nancy gins to grow by a young forest of Sadler of Oak Hill steel arms. reaching skyward. Six, «fics Sadler wanted her hair months pass. The inch thick steel ‘cut in a different way”, he re- pistes (pee 2 to torn tne bottom ‘calls. “tcut it short and-high in in of the ship. As this covering the back. She liked it and I liked approaches the water line, it the idea too, so I sent it to barber grows heavier and heavier with magazines all over the country”. eleven-inch thick blocks of shell-' yyics Sadler, now Mrs. Nancy resisting, specially fabricated, | indsay, stlil wears her hair in a heat-treated steel going into place boyish bob. to stop enemy shells. Above this; ae eee THIS AIN’T HAY point, the armor thins down again (By Associated Press) until it reaches the deck, where ickens up to catch dropping , dropping bombs, and other P falling metal. RICHMOND, Va.—Five times in nine years yeggmen failed in attempts to rob a safe in a feed- and-grain store here. The sixth The welders. the riggers, and the steel workers have almost time they obtained loot valued by owners at $12,000... disappeared. Far down below Gecks the ship painters are worm- ing their way through every com- partment. That is no fun, with fitters slapping down a tank top around amd above the brush wielders ag&jthough they were laying*a stéil carpet. These are! followed by the electricians and’ the plumbers, fitting the miles of wire and more miles of pipe necessary to keep this floating fortress afloat and moving, to keep it lighted, heated, and ventilated. rs She looks like a ship now. She is ready to launch. 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