The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 10, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO ZEN PL # CO. INC. 1 Daily Except Sunday By JAN, President and Publishcr N, Business Manager Citizen Building and Ann Streets per in Key West anda Monroe County \ Gred at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Associated Press entitled to use tches eredited to 3 paper and also SPECIAL NOTICE s, cards of thanks, resolutions of , wil: be charged for at nt by churches from whieh d are 5 cents a line. mand invites discus- of local or general anonymous communi- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Mor Beach and Bathing Pavilion H d Apartments. erts—Land and Sea. nm of County and City Gov- mer Modern City Hospital. Tt is easy to believe in democracy when your candidate wins. It might surprise some school teachers to krow how much their pupils know about them. The Citizen is a modern device to spread information. You tell ‘us and we’ll iell the people of Key West. We have no quarre] with the mer- Che Key West Citizen | | ing - THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Killed, Aunt MaggicP| —_—— By MEDORA FIELD WE WANT AN AIRLINE | ——— | ; West is about to enter its third succes’ ive year without benefit of air transportation to the mainland. That is, there will be no such service unless citi- zens become alive to possibilities embodied in the news story released yesterday. One of the newer airline companies, ow operating trequent service between several cities in Florida, has had an appli- cation for an extension of service before the national board -overning air traffic, for almost a year. Included in the pro- jected run is our city, on a run from Tampa and Miami to Havana. It would take, however, in the ardi- nary course of events, just about another year before that application could be even passed on. That, it car be seen, won't do us any good insofar as obtaining air transportation for the coming winter season. Officials of the company, here last stated that Key West could ely have service if sufficient in- was manifested in a move now be- ing inaugurated to obtain a Miami-Key West run on a basis of the present emer- gency existing nationwide. That means that the company would a temporary permit to operate, inal approval of their whole ap- Milit approval of the permit e sought, stressing the need for transportation to supplement the highway facilities over uncertain bridges. Persons and organizations interested —and who isn’t—can help the cause along by writing officials of the company offer- moral support. Sufficient interest shown here will aid materially in the move to receive perm.!. A strong weekend most | jie s the special | enough uemand may very likely bring the ] start of service within the next month—a | fact that would be much-welcomed by all t who doesn’t allvertise in the columns | of ‘The Citizen; he’s biting himself. Josephus Daniels, ambas. dor of the United States to Mexico, bel be outlawed by 2040. That le for cnly a paltry few now living alive ai that time. ves us cold, will be a stranger is profuse in his politeness and attention, keep your hand on your pocketbook, if there is anything in it »ow birds are like that, and now is the time to be extra precauticus. A movie actor who had made | es war will | rests here. It is quite easy to forecast that with tiie establishment of an airline, with mod- erate fares in effect, and daily round-trip service, our tourist business this coming season would be grea‘ly enhanced. In that light, everyone in Key West should behind the project—and push it; get | through to a reality. 15v | cruises on his yacht and never got seasick, | sat in a stationary automobile while the flitted by on a projection screen and became real ill. sceners set up alor mune fron mal-de-terre. ma!-de-m If you don’t want to be called a capi- , don’t save any money, for everyone saves something and puts that money to work, or had it put to work for him, is a pit Capital is the collective in- vested savings of millions of people, whe- tali who Im- ; r, he was a victim of | | | | | | | | | | ther it is one hundred dollars, less or more. | Soon the registrations of aliens in the | United States will reach the ark. thousands of whom are potential saboteurs and fifth columnists. The next » of the government is to separate the chaff desirables. In the past Uncle 3,000,000 | m the wheat and deport the un- | Sam _ has | deen very lenient with the subversive ele- | t his patience is about exhausted, o time for leniency | on is to be instru- | They say that humorists are sabotage is used to never | hateful, but those who have read “Mark | Twain in Eruption,” must feel that another theory has gore haywire. The American humorist’s particulac hate was Theodore Roosevelt, whom he considered a_ pub- -seeking fraud with dangerous lean- toward autocracy letters to “Teddy”, as one-time Re- ent was familiarly called, vain erupted’ as follows: ‘Our monarch is more powerful, more arbitrary, more autocratic than any in Europe, its lici ings We want an airline! GRIGIN OF SABOTAGE The practice of wilfully destroying the property of an employer or of an enemy by secret methods is very old, but the term now used to designate that prac- tice—“sabotage’’"—is comparatively new. One authority declares that the word was first used in English only about 30 years ago. A lending encyclopedia says the origin of the term sabotage is* commonly | traced to a French workman, who threw his wooden shoe (sabot) into ~machinery and stalled it, in an effort to cause his em- ployer to grant certain demands," Another writer says it was first used when French workers removed metal | plates (also called sabots) which held the | rails in place, during a railroad strike in 1912. These men came to be known as saboteurs, and the act itself was known as. sabotage. A periodical published by the I W..| W., chief advocates of sabotage during | labor disputes, was issued in Los Angeles | under the name of The Wooden Shoe short- | ly before the first World War. | Sabotage also has been extended to mean any kind of clumsy or wasteful work intended to slow down production or turn out inferior or useless products. Similarly, indicate efforts to institution by | wreck an organization or underhand methods. The word sabotage is at present heard most frequently in connection with plots to hamper the production of war materials YESTSRDAY.. First Aunt Maggie was murdered. Then it was found tmpossible either to telephone the police, or to go tor them, because of a blinding storm and the fact that someone haut tet .he air out of all the tires on all ne cars. And now Sally has left Bill, her husband, on guard and has gone to het room and slept. But neither she nor the other guests ut what had been intended as 1 quiet house- party have had much rest A murderer ts, they are convinced, still in the house. Chapter 16 No Answer JHEN I awakened ata little after eight o'clock in the V ‘ morning 1 discovered that the fastening of- one of the window blinds had come loose in the night. This was, no doubt, responsible for the cold’draft which had blown across me in my dream, but I still had an uncomfortable feeling that the secret of the hid- den rgom might be somewhere right under my nose. After all, this was the room in which the warning message had been left. But a hurried survey revealed no clue. Later, | would make a more thorough examination. Just now I could not hurry fast enough with my bathing and dressing, so | anxiously was I for the comfort of Bill's ne; that dayii ing out o! difficulties. The rain had stopped in the night, but the sky was leaden, as though a downpour might begin at any moment. On the way downstairs 1 remembered the matches I had lost the night be- fore somewhere near the landing. They were easy enough to find this morning but, except for the fact that I had automatically looked for them along the way, I should have passed unnoticed a small scrap of rose-colored taffeta which evidently had been snagged off by a nail projecting from one of the rounds supporting the stair rail. Of course, the nail should not have been there in the first place. and it was easy to see that it had been used in a crude at- tempt to repair a split in one of the delicate rounds. “Some of Thomas's work,” I told myself, with a mental note to have the repair looked after ness, his reassurance it meant a’straighten- atAe&st some of our Properly. Thomas had been my grand- mother’s gardner and .general handy man for many years, and as she had grown older he had Foe a bit slovenly. He and indy, his wife, had lived in the servants’ quarters back of the house until a month of so ago, when they had moved to a tenant house about a quarter of a mile distant. It occurred to me now might question Thomas with Bessie and Andrew that [ along about | the secret room. Thinking of all this, I picked up the small piece of silk as any housewife would. | noticed that tiny feathers or down clung to the cloth and wondered idly where such a scrap could have come | fram. Then I remembered that Alice had been wearing a rose quilted robe the night before. But Alice had said she went only to the head of the stairs. T stuffed the matches and the bit of silk into a pocket of my | red cardigan and hurried on to the dining room. Bill, usually al- most too bright and cheerful in the mornings, now looked like death warmed over. The knot on his head had gone down, but the discoloration had spread to} | the area around his eye. Hobe, gis sepgret 7 i up and Bi cxaleiny that Andrew had set out ro for Roswell, “to spread the alarm,” and als6 ito try to stir iaiten electrician and a wrecker forthe cars. J “Of course, its Sunday, ahd everything.will probably be shut up in Roswell,” he added. “Bu anyway, Andrew can at least fin | a telephone.” “I'm giad it is Sunday,” I said. “Meybe, we can get everything cleared up today and there won't be a lot of wild headlines in the apers.”” “Of course, there’s the radio,” Bill reminded me. “Don’t they have news broadcasts on Sun-! day?” Red Light wt little appetite I had dis- appeared as I followed this loomy ill’s insistence 1 forced down | toast and coffee. At the same time I related to him the reason my trip downstairs in the small hours of the morning. Neither Kirk nor I had men- tioned to Bill the fact that the sheet over Aunt Maggie had been pee hy Ce ee am sure, had refrained out of consid- me. | and retard-preparations for national de-| Pp Referring in one | White | House commands are not under restraint | of lew or custom or the Constitution, it can | ride down the Congress. . .It can concen- trate and augment power at the Capital by despoiling the States of their reserved ights. . .It can pack the Supreme Court with judges friendly to its ambitions.” fense, whatever the means employed to accomplish such a nefarious purpose may be. = FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS In the battle against tube culosis, | ev. ry citizen can do some fron‘ line fight- ing, without risk to life or limb, by buying Christmas Seals or Health Bonds. a It is hardly necessary for The Citizen to advise its readers to support the efforts Today’s Horoscope | of those who lead the attack. Just the cacamaieabeaiiciiapeappacaianaclncias same, for what it may be worth, we re- Today's. mind: -is- philosohi mind you to join hands with your fellow-., man in this struggle against disease, of thought, but at | sic! eration didn’t work it should have. But + al didn’t expect you to ve running into gorillas or to have mirrors rise up and sock you on the head.” caadéyiin, betes inging ee) Sipe ae she grumble lasses jump- in’ down off the wall all by their- self and hittin’ folks. Somethin’ evil in this here house. Miss Sally. we goin’ back to town today, ain't we? Bill and 1 both said we hoped so and tried to explain that Bill had knocked against the mirror and that the fastening was no doubt ready to give way. But Bessie remained firm in her con- viction. “Somethin’ evil in this here house,” she reiterated, as she went back to the kitchen. Bill was as mueh in the dark as I with re; to the red light and inclined to think I had imagined it. 1 was none too sure | myself, and yet why would I pick out a red light to imagine? “The trees are thinner there,” 1 pointed out. “It’s that long sweep of lawn with the cherry laurel hedge and the trees and that curve of the road just be- yond. It could have been the tail- light of a car.” “But all the cars are in the night,” said Bill. “All of ’em flat tires. And both Andrew tried to start the station wagon this mornitg. 4 , no car could have that mud.” “Perhaps it was a ¢ar from’ the outside.” “A car that turned around and went back? I get you,” said Bill, “but why?” “You tell me why,” I suggested. “Look here.” said Bill sudden- ly, “did you have any crazy rela- tives?” “All of them are more or less crazy, according to what you've always seemed to think,” I an- swered, with a feeble attempt at lightnéss. ) “No, I mean would any of them be likely to be shut up here in this so-called secret room? You know how people sometimes are about admitting such things. Try to hide thd’afflicted one away.” “Well, I never heard of any- thing of the sort,” I said. “Of course, Grandmother did die rather suddenly. There wasn’t any chance for her to tell anybody anything. That is, of course, ‘if there was anything to tell.” “T only thought of it as a pos- sible explanation,” Bill said. Cryptic Paper | “SPEAKING of crazy relatives,” | I said slowly, “that makes me wonder ... There was some sort of jingle set aside in Aunt Mag- tie’s papers when I came out here ata When I didn’t see it last night, I thought she had put it away. Do you suppose—” “The clue, Bill, his face brightening. “What did it say?” “That's the trouble. I can’t re- member. It was all a mixed-u jumble, something about han and feet and steps. I thought Aunt Maggie had set it aside as a curi- osity. You don’t suppose it was a reducing exercise?” “I don’t think they bothered very much about such things back m those days,” said Bill. “Sure pro a = e qs ae of it?” shook my hea opelessly. “Anyway, it may not have been the clue. I'll look in Aunt Mag- gie’s papers. But first I want to Sand I want a shave and ni ant a shave and a bath,” said Bill. In the kitchen I tactfully broached the subject of the secret room. But I got exactly nowhere. Bessie swore she had never heard of any secret-room-in the house, nor jad sho heard any sort of re- mark at any time ich mi indicate ; c. ight some, seein’ as how Lindy couldn’t come An- — come over to my hi ‘a,"_ Thomas pronounced it a shoe “Yes'm, her a’h’nt is “T hope she isn’t very sick,” I said absently. “When did Lindy Thomas stuttered and seemed unable to remember. “Day before esterday, I think it was, - Miss . Yes'm, she went day before ee fee While struck me as a little ed aps Li (Copyright, 1939, Medora Field Perkerson) jto comprehend an mean?” asked | By HUGO S. SIMS. Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizer CONSIDERING AIRPLANES SOME MISUNDERSTANDING ~ | DEFENSE-MINDED NEW FUNDS FOR CHINA ABOUT BRITISH FINANCES PRESIDENTS CRUISE In preparing a column of this type, for publication in hundreds of newspapers throughout the United States, the writer seeks al- ways to present an accurate re- port as to facts, a true picture of the current scene, and, when dis- cussing probabilities, to base conclusions upon an intelligent analysis of available information. It is not always possible to have complete knowledge of ex- isting facts, but this does not jus- tify the substitution of imagina- tion for an effort te determine the facts. It is equally difficult the changing , trends and variable factors at any given time, but this does not | warrant an estimate of a situation based upon prejudice or partisan- ship. Nor should predictions as to what is likely to cccur be used as propaganda to promote such developments, although the writ- er can give an honest opinion based upon a careful study of information available. We make this introduction in order to discuss the recent deci- sion of private aircraft interests to turn over to the National De- fense Advisory Commission an undisclosed number of new air- plane engines which newspaper writers assert will mean “a greatly expedited delivery of combat planes both for the Army and Navy, as well as Great Brit- ain”. A government official ex- plains that a spirit of co-opera- tion was manifested by scheduled airlines which agreed to give up some new engines, recently deliv- ered to them, and to release, dur- ing 1941, approximately .$7,500,- 000 worth of equipment which the airlines had planned to use in expanding their services. The point in this story is that; when the government, in the lat- ter part of November, icates an unwillingness to permit - mercial airlines to expand at the \expense of the national defense! program, certain spokesmen of the airplane industry immediately | denied that the production of jcommercial transport planes would interfere with the defense program and some even as- serted that to cease work would “hinder rather than help the speed of production” of warplanes for the United States and Great Britain. They talked about the disorganization of their plants but insisted that the cancellation of commercial transports would be an outright economic waste for airplanes under construction for military purposes. At the time, we found it some- what difficfult to reconcile the statements of aircraft leaders | with the unwillingness of govern- iment officials to permit the ex- ,Pansion of commercial airlines. Consequently, we were much in- terested in the announcement that a number of engines, already manufactured for commercial airlines, would be turned over to ‘the government and that this de- livery would enable the United {States to increase materially its |werplane aid to Great Britain in a short time. Moreover, the re- \linquishment of $7,500,000 worth ticularly to the construction of aircraft into consideration the shortage of engines. Some of them, however. denied that engines for commer- cial use would be suitable for military work, or that the cesse- tion of commercial expansicn would expedite the delwery f military-type planes. Public Works expenditures, ac- cording to President Roosevelt. will be cut to the bone im the next budget, except those directly con- nected with the defense program Belief that next Spring should see @ great number of unemployed at work under the defense program the Chief Executive pointed out that the large expenditures mec- essary for this purpose makes necessary for the government economize somewhere Mr. Roosevelt says he a estab- lishing a strict rule that w bodies without taking shelve many types of programs 1 hitherto financed by the Federal budget—including river and har bor improvements. highway con struction, public land acquas! additions to national forests 2 projects of a similar nature course, projects under way will be completed and the gover=me will carry out its contracted gations. Relief expenditures © be cut in proportion to the em- ployment provided by the defense work. Extension of $100,000900 cred it to the Chiang Kai-shek gow ment of Chima by the U States was announced. significan ly, on the day that Japan made its “Peace Pact” with the puppet ~ Chinese government estabileshe< by Japanese bayonets at Nanking The timing of the loan is Empert- ant. demonstrating the miention of this government to supper the Chungking government continued resistance to Japanese aggression. Readers can recall that when of Japan to Axis, proclaiming 2 treaty plz ly designed to overawe the answered the implied threst by notifying its nationals to get out of the Far East This step was a surprising revelation to the Japanese but we doubt = it had any more effect than the loan recently arranged for Chima There is every indication that = the government is keeping itself closely informed as to the actus’ needs of Great Britam, with th study being made by government officials includes 2 thorough te- view of the financial resources available to the British Empire Also under discussion is the re- “ lease of merchant tonnage to off- set losses from German subme- © rine activities. Whether the trans- fer of additional overage de will probably be given to the * shippnig situation because ‘the 'US. Maritime Commission hes jmore than sixty vessels lnid up which would be available fer el- iments are made to transfer them to Great Britain. i The President last week board ed the cruiser Tuscaloose for 2 two-week cruise, during whith he will observe fleet exercises and probably visit one or of of airplane equipment, the great ; bulk of which is airplane engines, will furnish many hundreds of airplanes engines, whose limited production is probably the great- \est obstacle to an increase in the production of fighting planes. ‘life may be eccentric. The out-' ‘put of this mind may furnish| The incide~+. we think, illus- |good material, if trained into trates the difficulty of under-| i ‘permitted to wander off in_pur- ‘land a little too critical. There is |suit of umpractical, profitess| lsome genius and the mode of |speculations. j the modern world. One |does not have to, and should not. conclude that the spokesmen of the aitcraft industry were inten- the ose Bee to Wasemgte o ate oe ir emergersy. The queer aod two snge-mourss Comms sat tienes estat cut oat oe Rpewr ¢ ect fee os owt much cMheuty