The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 19, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO je wry West Citizen THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. hed Daily Exeept Sunday By . ARTMAN, President Publisher N, Bai anager © Citizen Building ne and Ann Streets Baily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County On matter citered at Key West, Florida, as second cla Member of the Asseciated Press 1 Press is exclusively entitled to use | tion of all news dispatches credited to | or wi reditec in this paper and also | ued here. PTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES clade known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE ng netices, cards of thanks, resolutions of uary notices, ete., will be charged for at cents a Hm rtainment by churches from which er 2 5 cents a line. and invites discus- and subjects of local or general t publish anonymous communi- } ————————— THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always. seek the truth and print it hout fear and without favor; never be id to attack wrong or to applaud right; fight tor progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the puolic welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, good done by individual or organ- tolerant of others’ rights, views and ; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- » with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. ch and Bathing Pavilion. rport and Sea. solidation of County and City Gov- ernments | 6. A Modern City Hospitals | Willkie’s plain speaking baf: ple. Is it real love or the draft, that’s the question in the minds of women when they | cl proposals new. Florida showed her wisdom in bz himself. anticipated the probability that a long term in this office might work to the dis- :dvantage of the state. its governor from succeeding We have compulsory educa pulsory n, com- military training, and we should voting. We also have g of taxes, but that com- pulsien has broken Gown in Key West, due pineless city councils, have compulso npulsory payi In his condemnation of the Republican Party as the party of appeasement, does Henry Wallace in his speech of acceptance that the Democratic Party the That’s an and ture. Apparently there is nothing ¢ in Willkie’s acceptance speech e to beat Hitler in any contest he may That leaves it up to Hitler; if he r it he will get it. Willkie does not a chip on his shoulder as does Roose- is y of war? insincere The American Newspaper Guild is undoubtedly Red-tinged. Westbrook Peg- r the columnist, calls the Guild “a trans- mission belt of the Communist party,” but 1 unquestionable Communis- the organization of Amer- ican writers is also formed in the mold of the dictator, as evidenced in its proposed vontracts with newspapers, one of the pro- visions making it obligatory for an em- ployer to discharge any employe who falls behind specified limits in his union dues or assessments. This on its face is an abomi- nation and virtually slavery if counte- nanced. Mrs. Roosevelt isa member of subversive crganization and has stated that she would n~ resign even if she found lty, vut “would stay and fight Isn’t it apparent to every nking person that the most effective way she could “fight” that body would be to sever her connection, for as the Presi- dgut’s wife her membership is a sustaining weapon in its defense. sides having tendencies, | thoughtful | | is one of se ticizns it is said, but it pleases plain peo- | | number of enterpris' | made, ing | It} | of Key West on their own. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN LIONS’ NIGHT CLUB A novel and altogether. worthwhile experiment in leisure-time employment for the youths of Key West is about to get | under way with the announcement made yesterday by the Lions Club of the turning over of their Den each Friday night for | High School coupies who like to dance and partake of night life in a conservative sort of way. One of the big problems concerning parents of this city in bringing up their | children was what to do about’ their natural desires to go out of an evening and dance. Night clubs and tke liquor in- fluence were the only places to which they | could ge. Therefor, in too many cases, the | parental ban was on and young couples have not been allowed to go out at all. Now, with the Lions’ announcement, the lack will have been supplied, that is, if the students take kindly to the idea and parents supply moral support. On many college campuses during the | past ten years soft-drink night clubs have | been established. They’ve proven huge successes, too, in most cases. Collegians have had the advantage of all the glamor of night life, as it were, with none of the objectionable features introduced with | liquor drinking. It is this idea that the Lions mean to | feature in their Den “night club’. Under | careful supervision, the young couples will be made to feel that “th your enter- prise” to have and to make into something really worthwhile. A regular, weekly function to look forward to each week, | providing opportunity for healthful recrea- tion in social dancing and all-around good fun. J The Lions realize the responsibility thrown upon them in making this an- nouncement. In edicting that no parental chaperonage will be admitted, they feel that parents will “take the hint” and step aside for Johnny and Mary and put them At any rate the Lions, given that no is | on their own. this responsibility, will see to it | harm will come from the trust given them. The whole program has been given consideration over a_ long period of time. In fact, the night club idea veral ideas that sponsored the initial move to construct>the Den and pro- vide a recreation center of a kind for any s. This is the first on the program and it will be given a full- length trial. ~ Suggestions have been welcomed by the Lions on this enterprise. They can be > The Citien has been told, with the definite understanding that, insofar as is possible, the students are to feel, always, that a minimum of interference is to be allowed. The Lions are putting the youths The Citizen feels that they will get the co-operation they deserve, all around. UNPLEASANT TO CONTEMPLATE The news from London is not pleasant to the mind or the imagination. The rain of heavy bombs upon pop- ulous districts, with the great loss of the life that the inhabitants of the British capi- tal undergo, is abhorrent to most Amer- icans. Naturally, the loss of life among Ger- man families is just as repugnant but the people of this country have placed upon Hitler and his regime the onus of causing the present war. Consequently, they look upon the British people as the innocent victims and while deploring the death of German women and children, as all must do, the tendency is to regard their fate as the inevitable consequence of the resist- ance that a brave people are putting up to a ruthless foe. The bombs that rock the English capi- tal leave in their wake death and destruc- tion. Many innocent children suffer hor- rible torture. Adults face grief that is worse than death in the suffering of loved ones. KING CAROL QUITS King Carol, we see by the newspapers, has abdicated. After putting up a wonderful exhibi- tion of tight-rope walking in the four-ring circus that is performing in the Balkans, the King stumbled and fell to the ground. Rumania was caught in the squeeze between conflicting big powers and there was practically nothing that the King could do except to buy off his antagonists as cheaply as_ possible. Apparently the people, now paying for past shows, are dis- | gruntled. \Chewaal YESTERDAY: A_hard-faced man approaches Gerald at Field- stone Inn and calls chim “Frin- gy.” Gerald professes not to know him but Kay is suspicious. After dinner they inquire about the chaplain’s unknown passen- ger. — Chapter 28 Visit To The Hospital HE mistress of the establish- ment shook her head in a dis- couraging way. “We have so many people here every night, I doubt if I can tell you a thing. What night did you say he was here?” “Tuesday night of last week,” Gerald said hopefully. She looked relieved. “Oh, I cou!in’t tell you a thing about it, then. I'm never here Tuesdays—I broadcast two nights a week from a Chicago station——” “No fooling!” ejaculated Ger- ald, looking at her with great re- spect. “Sing. dance, play the fid- dle, turn handsprings?” “I'm a torch singer,” she said calmly, and told him the station and the hour. I saw Gerald’s eye wander over her motherly figure =s he made her a little bow. “Madam,” he said respectfully, “I shall make it a point to listen in. I'm sure that knowing you will make it -particularly interesting. Now about this Ti night’ business—who looks after things +” ty husbands bpt hes: 3H us) it he’s away for the week. so tHe headwatter will have to take charge tomorrow night.” “But your husband was here last Tuesday?” “Yes.” “And he might remember Chaplain Henry leaving, and any strange pee loitering about? it’s possib:e, you know, that the fellow makes a habit of spotting a car parked at a roadhouse, or of. waiting until some solitary diner, drives off, thumbing a ride and making off with the car.” “Oh no. I'm sure it’s never hap- pened before. I should have heard about it.” _ “Nevertheless, I'd like to ques- tion your husband when he re- turns.” “That will not be before Satur- day or Sunday, I’m afraid.” “We'll come back. And now, if I could speak to your headwaiter for a moment——” The headwaiter, with the bland face and obsequious manner of his kind, listened attentively; but he was no more help than the woman had been. He recalled nothing in particular about Tues- day night—the usual number of diners, all strangers. They were not near any village, there was a large percentage of transients among their patrons. No, he did .not specially recall anyone of that description—there were often two or three solitary diners on any night. He would not be likely to remember one more another. And he had not been out of the building al) eve- ning, so he couldn't have seen a Suspicious loiterer if there had n one. “So that's that,” said Gerald de- Jectedly, as he slid under the wheel of Adam's car. “I'm afraid we're washouts, girls. Innocents, babes in the z = “Three little maids from school are we,” caroled Julia as the car swerved between the stone pillars and turned toward home. Gerald’s voice rose sweetly to join hers, his stranger’s tongue shaping. the syllables into the sharp bright crystals they were meant to be. Pert as @ school-girl well can be Filled to the brim with girlish glee Three little maids from school! I listened foria moment, then, with the irresistible enthusiasm ef another Gilbert and Sullivan addict, added my shaky soprano. We went on to “Tit Willow,” “The Ruler of the ’s Nay-vee.” | the one about uneles and the cousins and the aunts, and a half- dozen others I have forgotten. De- liberately I closed my mind to my loneliness for Adam, to the mem- ory ot Sandra and Ivan and to - my unwelcome suspicions of Ger- Music lay behind us like smoke on the hot, still air as the car drifted lazily toward home. The Same Technique “ye next afternoon 1 drove Sandra to the hospital to see Chaplain Henry. I had spent the morning dictating to her, just to see if I could. with somewhat cockeyed results. it. is one thing to put words of molten passion privately on paper—it's quite an- other to recite them aloud to a calmly attentive listener with a businesslike pencil poised over a stenographer’s notebook. { kept interrupting myself to open the corridor uoor and peer up and down to assure myself that there were no listeners; and when San- dra singsonged my own words back to me from her notes I col- Slou By VIRGINIA HANSON ==" eo on the couch in hysterical a! iter. so Sandra. She assured me earnestly that it read very well. that I had a miraculous expression. that she envied me my talent—— She was using the same tech- nique now on the little chaplain. She had been so sorry 49 miss his i Sunday; she remem- bered so well his silver-tongued oratory. his th tful lessons— and she was doubly sorry not to have had him perform the wed- ding ceremony. We came looking for you, you \SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—20c gift for | pe’ ee ee ghters know, only to learn that you were in the hespital again.” The chaplain groanea. _ “JACK AND THE BEANSTALK OF 1940’ By ART. ESPINOLA A handful of beans He got for a cow— SEPTEMBER 15 U. S. WEATHER BUREAU REPORT ___ Observation taken at 7:30 a m 75th Mer. Time (city office Temperatures Highest last 24 hours “1 should never have gone on The same thing has happened Lowest last night that beach party—never! Not but that .: was most kind of everyone to insist—you in particular, San- dra, my. dear. And I found it most enjoyable, most enjoyable indeed. Aside, of course, from the tragic sequel—not my own indis- Position; naturally that is not what I have reference to. That is a slight thing, painful, but slight——” He shifted a little in bed—he was lying on his side—and an expression of utmost concern warped his discolored counte- nance into a ferocity unbecoming te a saintly man; but he ironed it out wit! an apparent effort and resumed his involved discourse. “No, what I refer to, of course, is the sad accident to that young man—I say sequel, because I un- derstand the tragedy occurred after we had left the beach. I should feel deeply concerned, more deeply concerned, I should say, if I felt that he had been lying there, perhaps trying to summon help, and we but a stone’s throw from him, never dreaming——” He paused to draw breath and Sandra took advantage of the. pause. “He did not try to summon help,” she said calmly. “They say he died instantly. And it was not And it has happened now. F.D.R. from England Has received a sacred vow, And fifty “very old” destroyers Have replaced the —amythical ‘Total raiffall since Sept cow. Now the one and only problem Excess since Sept. 1, Mean Normal Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches 0.33 inches _ aps7 654 inches Is the planting of the beans. ‘Total xainfall since Jan. 1. _ The King and Queen Canada— Here’s hoping you what that means. know Some sources don’t seem to think That the cow was good enough, So let's throw bombers. in Oh, just put it on the Sunrise “cuff”. The hen that laid the eggs Has ran out of the gold sup- ply. suggested BE E twenty-five Sea level, 29.94 (1013.9 m galden yoonset inches xCess inches 56 Wind Direction and Velocity NE—10 miles per hour 9 1% Barometer ai 7:30 2. m. since January todey Tomorrow's Almanac 26 ‘ Sunset 6 Moonrise 9-02 9:30 Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM Steel is the best that she can do, pio}, And she’s raining them right down from the sky. Let us all hope and pray That this “universal comes to an end craze” Low (Till 7:30 p. m Key West and Vicinit: an accident. Chaplain Henry. It so that we may not regret in the Cloudy with scattered shower wes murder.” The.chaplain looked pained. “I know the papers said that, but I feel sure there has been some mistake——” I told him, then, of the silent evidence of the piece of drift- wood, and watched his preposter- ously mottled face pale in patch- es. Little beads of moisture ap- peared on his brow. “But that’s dreadful! Who would want to kill that nice oung man? Why, we had only just met him—all but you, my future The billions we are carelessly | occasionally fresh nort about to spend. (Continued from Page One) dently, were first developed by the United States Navy, clim out of range of the anti-aircraft guns. The pilot takes a deep night and Friday moderate east winds. Florida: Mostly clow and Friday with scatt ers. Astoria, Oregon, wa bin 1811] as a fur-trading post John Jacob A: The United Si dear Sandra, and of course no breath, pushes the plane’s nose Alaska from Ru on Saccharine Leer HE HAD a trick of falling silent in the middle of a sentence, as if his thoughts had become too involved for words. I thought that peraaes he was accustomed to let is eyes speak for him, bu? in his resent situation those puffed and lackened orbs were restricted in expression to a sort of saccharine leer. Sandra looked at him, then averted her eyes as if she, too, found the spectacle slightly shocking. “Jeff knew him,” she said thoughtfully. “And I believe Julia and Mimi met him once at my apartment in New York.” “But, my dear girl! That. of course, means nothing. Murder is, one might say. an intimate thing. It grows slowly. on long acquaint- ance. Can one imagine murdering a comparative stranger?” It was a brilliant speech for the little man. I looked at him with new respect. He must occasionally have thoughts, and find words to to express them. “That comes back to the matter of the motive again, doesn’t it?” I asked. “You’re speaking of a murder of passion. Perhaps this was done in cold blood. To gain a point. Money. security——” “Or under orders,” said Sandra grimly. “Even here there may be spies.” She sounded quite loopy, if you | know what I mean; apparently the chaplain thought so too, for he looked over his shoulder nervously, and again the mottled purple patches of his complexion stood out against sudden sur- rounding pallor. “You and Adam have been reading Oppenheim.” I laughed. But I remembered. suddenly, a pair of sharp gray eyes ‘glancing too quickly.at me from long, low- ered lashes. Ingy, that man had called Lit. “It was Adam’s idea,” Sandra protested defensively. “I never would have thought of such Hung All I told him was that couldn’t imagine why Ivan was murdered, or by whom. You know that, Kay.” “Yes, I know. And he was talk- ing through his hat. Lurid imagi- nation.” That, of course, was slanderous. | Adam is a practical person. He had simply talked to her in her own language, hoping to surprise her into saving more than she in- tended. But | could not tell them that. And for some reason not entirely clear to me, I did not want them to begin thinking about Gerald Beaufort, and decid- | ing he was a spy. The chaplain appeared more cheerful. Z “Yes, my dear girl, | agree with Miss Cornish that the idea is rather — what was the word? Lurid—very well chosen. But you deal in words, is it not so? They tell me you're a writer——” He quizzed me for a few min- utes. in a nice way, and I thought he was trying to forget, or make me forget, the embarrassing cir- cumstances of our first meeting. I mec him halfway, describing the type of thing | write a1 ause it was fresh in my mind. my ex- rience in dictating that morn- ing. He delivered a weighty ob- servation to the effect that it had often been his experience that the spoken word differed from the written word. Sandra contributed that the lines of a play which Fead poorly often sound much better spoken; and so on, from lays to pulp stories to a p a conversation that finally di of its own weight. Zo be continued WEEKLY. |the side of the ship straight down, like a projectile straight for the enemy battleship. At the end of his dive, he will be screaming through the air at 500 or more miles an hour. If he is successful in ducking the anti-aircraft shells, he pulls the trigger, laying his bombs right on the enemy ship, and pulls out of the dive in 2@n up-swinging zoom. Centrifugal force shoves him down in_ his seat at six times his normal weight, like a tone in a sling. Even if he plants a thousand- pound bomb directly on his tar- get, he may not sink a battle- ship. He hopes to force the ship to drop out of line, or stop the action of one big gun turret, re- ducing the enemy’s fire. Preparation For Battle While the planes are busy in the air, on shipboard every man has taken his battle station. The Marines man the anti-aircraft guns. The dentists are assigned to the decoding rooms, for no battleship speaks to another in plain English during the battle. Cooks serve the ammunition hoists, elevators carrying powder from the bowels of the ship to the turrets. The dishwashers stand ready to seal a bulkhead if is blown open. Inside the turrets, covers of steel that house two or three big guns—the crews wait for their range data. The aiming of the guns repre- sents the highest mathematical achievement of the fleet. On a battleship carrying 1,500 men, one-third of these are assigned to man the guns, and 100 of these | men operate the fire-control sys- tem, which is the business of aim- ing the mighty guns. The obser- vations are made in fire control stations placed high in the masts. If the first mast is shot away, there is a duplicate apparatus in the second mast. If this, too, goes, the fire-control is switched to a squat, oval structure that rises only a few feet above the deck. This first-control tower is the most heavily armored part of the ship. Here, the telescopic sights of the fire-control supplement the exact information coming in from the planes. Ali this material goes to the plotting roam, far be- low decks. Here, with machine- | like precision, all the variables— the temperature of the powder, the barometric pressure, the at- mospheric temperature, the age of the gun (a 16-inch gun may be fired no more than 150 times), the wind velocity, the enemy’s di- rection, speed, and position—all are integrated in a matter of sec- onds, and the aiming orders are wired constantly te the gun tur- Fets. The fleets are drawing near each other. The work of years, designing and building our fleet, is coming to a test. The iron mined in Min- nesota, worked into steel at Chi- cago, fabricated in Pennsylvania, forged into a ship at the building yards, is ready. The seareh of the National Defense Advisery Com- mission to supply the Navy with every last article a battle fleet needs for such an action has been undertaken and supplies are rap- idly accumulating. aiming himself $7,200,000. Licensed Funeral Directors and Embaimers 24-Hour Ambulance Service Phone 135 Night 69 _ HOTEL LEAMINGTON FOR YOUR VACATION TRIP It will be a wise preceution before yoo eevee Some. Se change the cash you hed planned to camry wi pes =e Protected, spendable— American Express Travelers Cheques These Cheques are known end accepted everywhere, and if lest or stolex 2 prompt refund is made. FOR SALE IN $10, $20, $50 AND $100 DENOME- NATIONS AT 75c PER $100 BOUCHT THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Depos: insurance Cooporen=es