The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 16, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR List Ten Biggest News Stories Of ’4 By CHARLES HONCE AP News Editor | gress,” argued many, and the dis- The top news story of 1940 in/cussion carried right on through my rating was made in America| to the end of.the year. —the presidential campaign. 7. RUMANIAN TRAVAIL No other event of the year €x-| “Unhappy” Rumania was the cited the American people as did! way the Balkan nation was de- that story. In the rest of the scribed by many writers. Its world, it competed successfully! troubles of the year made top for attention .with other exciting: news. Russia grabbed off Bes- happenings. — . ; sarabia; Hungary took back a por- It began with the nomination tion of Transylvania; Bulgaria got of Wendell Willkie by the Repub-/a piece at the pie counter. An licans, which was a thunderbolt,!earthquake devastated; King and it ended in a roaring climax! Carol abdicated in a hurry; then with the re-election of President; the passions of Iron Guardists Franklin Delano Roosevelt. broke out in mass executions and There were two simple reasons the Germans moved in. for the importance of this story: 8. FLIGHT FROM DUNKERQUE To the United States it meant a’ A saga of extraordinary human thrid-term president for the first interest was this flight of the time in history; to the world, con-' British from continental Europe tinuance of the Roosevelt poli-| with the bloody sands of Dun- cies regarding the European war,’ kerque the final stepping-off which may settle the destinies of place. Some 330,000 British were most of the world’s peoples of 1940's great- , one must look across the seas where war's pano- ply spread to the fullest in the horror of death, destruction and suffering. Here they are see them, the ten biggest news stories of 1940: ! 1, ROOSEVELT WINS AGAIN | Probably no American political issue has been more widely de- bated than that of a third pt dential term. President Roosevelt shattered the tradition in his vic- tory over Wendell L. Willkie, who thoroughly broke tradition himself in his ball-of-fire cam- paign for the Republican pre: certial nomination and his effort to win election. 2. U.S. ADOPTS CONSCRIPTION The Secretary of War put his hand in a jar, took out a cap: and the first number had been erawn in Amer’ precedent- shaitering* peacetime conscriptic for which 17 million men _ had registered. This story shaped up, big because it was part of a great | national effort for re-armament for “all out” defense of the West- | ern Hemisphere. ‘coincidentally, | 21 American nations agreed to stand together for that defense. | 3. FRANCE SURRENDERS A tragic story of stunning im- pact, high in interest. Described by many experts as the finest in the world, the French army melt-; ed before the German blitzkrieg in a few weeks. And into the discard, at least temporarily, | went the historical French phrase, | “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”. | 4. BATTLE OF BRITAIN H Here is one of the epic stories of the year. Adolf Hitler smashed to the channel por' and then across that short stretch of water} he sent his bombers at England. | Fire, death, destruction rained from the skies. Devastation has} been enormous, but Britons have | fought back, bitterly and stub-| bornly. “There Will Always Be} An England”, they sing, as they} stumble through the rubble of} their homes, factories, churches | and hallowed buildings. carried to safety under the blast- ing guns of the Germans. 9. RUSSIA ADDS TERRITORY Russia conquered Finland, took some choice portions of her ter- ritory; absorbed the republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and then took back Bessarabia from Rumania. An absorbing news story, these moves of. the Russian giant. 10. FIFTH COLUMN IN NORWAY Outstanding by any rating, was the exposure of how fifth column activities helped Germany con- quer. It was first disclosed in the conquest of Norway. U. S. WEATHER __BUREAU REPORT oservalivii taken at 7:30 a. m 75th Mer. Time (city office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours .. Lowest last night Mean Normal = Precipitation Ramfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches Total rainfall since Dec. 1, inches Deficiency inches Total rainfall since Jan. inches Deficiency inches A Wind Direction and Velocity E—9 miles per hour Relative Humidity 18% Barometer at 7:30 a. m., today Sea level, 30.12 (1020.0 millibars) Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise 7:06 a. Sunset 5:41 p. m Moonrise 8:40 p. m. Moonset 9:12 a. m. Tomorrow’s Tides (Naval Base) AM. 11:59 5:28 FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Mostly since Dec. 1, 0.80 1 35.36 i, since Jan. PM 11: 4:48 High ow jcloudy with scattered showers to- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN |\COMMERCE CHAMBER |E. A. STRUNK BUYS LOT |Bingo Tonight HIRES STENOGRAPHER merce has added a public steno- grapher to its staff. The steno- grapher will be on call for hotel! !“He should have consulted Con-jguests and others needing her;Strunk, Key West, for a lot of o'clock, in Saint Paul’s Parish 1102 feet on Simonton street near services. She is Miss Hilda Castillo ,who} has temporarily taken up her; duties in the chamber’s office, j La fs ae building. | | | i i (Continued from Page One) and the entire ten pounds were served before another particle of food was brought to the table. | From that banquet a total trade in rosefish that was 365,000 pounds annually when only the Italians of the North Atlantic seacoast towns and cities used it, has risen today to 75,000,000 annually in the cities of Boston and Gloucester alone. The most of it goes into the middle of the country as frozen filets. Delicious rose-red or orange flesh with an aroma and a taste that has plenty of fish ap- peal. Once in the market, wrap- ped in attractive packages and labelled “Sea Perch,” the sales be- gan to mount. i When the original order of twelve carloads went forth to/ Boston from the dinner that night, ! the Fish Pier was flabbergasted; ! could do nothing. Fishermen had tossed rosefish back into the sea h curses for years and years. The fishermen did not know !where to net them and first tried recky bottom. This cost $800 in trawling nets at the store. The staid and staple Bay State cod,’ and the good old haddock persisted in coming aboard. Finally a natural stamping ground wi located and the trawler “Exeter” brought in 165,- 000 in one catch. From then on rosefish has been sea perch and; never a drug on the market. It is known to the scientists as Sebastes marinus, and is found on the coasts of North America and Europe. It has a large head, is spiney, with sharp fins and large gill openings, and heavily scaled. When young, the flesh is usually mottled with red and dusky! brown , but this changes with maturity and the rose color ap- pears uniformly. The rosefish weigh ordinarily from one to two} pounds. { THE LOWDOWN |FROM HICKORY GROVE It takes a duck with a kindaj funny slant on things, if he will ™. say anything half-way good for CHEVROLETONE-YARD DUMP the light company. But what- ~ ever it is you gotta be, or have, I * am gonna say it. None of these Boys in the light business has got anything on me and I can talk free—for or against. I know some of ‘em. Some of them are fine gents. But it is like it is with a barber or a plumber or a horse doctor, you don’t find every one of them a person that you want to take hme to dinner. ; §. GREECE REPULSES ITALY |Might; Tuesday partly cloudy and But an in all if I was lettin’ some- High on the list of events that held the attention of the world} was the Greek repulse of Italian! armies, which sought to dominate | the small nation. Italy entered the war in the last few days of the battle of France. Nothing much happened until near the year’s end, when Ital Greek. Then the Fasc’ suf- | fered disastrc y and the world} watched clo: \ 6. DESTROYERS FOR BASES | Few issues aroused more dis- | cussion than the United States’ } trade of 50 destroyers for defense | bases on British Western Hem- isphere territory President | Roosevelt made the deal and ar nounced it after it was all over.j; HARRIS SCHOOL (Continued from Page One) Loretta Carbonell, Harry Carey, Patricia Gibr - rela, Ruth Robert Thomas Key. Leo Howell, Edison Weatherford Billy Danie Chorus Of Ladies And Gentlemen Rose Marie Archer. Elsie Jane ne Greene. Mary: Nancy Norr Braxton Eznest Sa’ land, Thom: Bil Pierce ani veland Knowles. | Four-Leafed Clovers Beverly Curry, Faye Berval Lorraine tage and Conchita; Varela i CREAN RESO When In Need Of A TAXI_| Call 9125 Everready Taxi Co. 24 Hour Service cooler; moderate shifting winds becoming northwesterly. Florida: Cloudy: scattered showers in north portion this aft- ernooh (and west-central portions tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy and somewhat colder, preceded by scattered showers in southeast portion. CONDITIONS A low pressure area of consid- erable intensity is central morning over the Lake region, with low pressure extending southward into the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and pressure is also low off the Pacific coast; while high pressure areas overspread the Atlantic States, and from the northern Rockies southeastward over Texas. Precipitation has been general during the last 24 hours from the Plains States and eastern Texas, eastward over the Lake and Appalachian regio! jand Carolinas, in portions of the 2 Temperatures are abc of the Mississippi River. to the w ng southwar G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. FOR YOUTHFUL SPIRITS ROLLER SKATE Southard and Duval Streets SESSIONS: 2 P. M. till 4 P. M. 7:30 P. M. till 10 P. M. IF YOU CAN WALK YOU CAN SKATE —— Shée Skates For Sale —— BINGO PARTY —at the— ARISH HALL TONIGHT, 7:30 O'CLOCK Benefit K. W. High School P.-T.A. Ways and Means Committee body hold my good watch and chain, I'd just as soon trust it toa light feller as to the other guy. But what Iam chirpin’ about today is, I don’t see any good or common-sense reason why the Govt. is all the time picking on the light company. My light bill runs around 3 or 4 dollars, but my tax bill, she soars. It is something to talk about. If somebody ever this comes out on a platform to get The Favorite in Key West taxes down versus light bills, pardner, I'm goin’ to clamber up j onto his bandwagon. Yours with the low down, JOE SERRA. “Key West's Outstanding” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Strictly Fireproof Garage OPEN THE YEAR AROUND county clerk’s office shows that ON SIMONTON STREET At Parish Hall The Key West chamber of com- | A record at the office of the) A Bingo Party for the benefit of the Key West High School Parent-Teacher Association will be held this evening at 7:30 a warranty deed was issued by Paul H. Marks, Miami, to E. A. Hall A number of lovely prizes have been assembled and refreshments “twill be’served. There will be a CLASSIFIED” _ column: - - SRS bom (Contiidea from Page One) LOST Greene street. The consideration was $10 and “other valuable con- siderations”. took on the nature of Martyrdom, because they died as Catholics at LOST—Man's Gruen Precision | the hands of the infidel,” the Wrist Watch ium 8 _ | translation says. 25 pa ely ana, == Indian Key, one of the Martyrs, decl2-5tx |Rext to the Matacumbes, an early settlement and first county seat of PICTURE FRAMING Dade county one hundred years Se | ee ROW. on carly maps as PICTURE FRAMING, Diplomas; | “Matanza.” antique frames refinished. Sign| The extreme westerly group of painting. Paul DiNegro, 614 islands of the Florida Keys is now Francis street. novi8-tf | Known as the Dry Tortugas, orig- inally named by Ponce de Leon MISCELLANEOUS “The Tortugas,” having captured a. 0 the islands 170 tortoises or UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS turtles. Here is located Fort Jef- and Sundstrand ADDING MA-|ferson of Civil Wer days, which CHINES. Sales, Service and has recently been renovated, and Supplies, Ray Dickefgon, agent. | well worth a visit from Key West. Island City Book Store, 222 Duval Street, Phone 9150. » , Bovl5-1mo, afd Glades of South Florida, is obtainable from.the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla. HOTELS BRING YOUR VISITING friends in need of a good night’s rest BRITISH CREDIT to THE OVERSEAS HOTEL. Clean rooms, enjoy the homey Fe . atmosphere. Satisfactory rates. (Continued from Page One) 917 Fleming St. novl7-tf ©n the precedent of the Chinese pienaals loan. But how should the thing be drawn up? Some hard-boiled higher-ups tell you British subjects at the end of last year held well $4,000,000.000 worth of invest- ments in the United States. Why not suggest to the British that they cash those first? Or at least put them up as collateral? Then talk about loans. Or, they say, if we are worry- ing about our future, we must look out for a toe-hold on vast stores of raw materials of all kinds from the ends of the earth tungsten, industrial diamonds, antimony, tin, rubber, manganes: dozens-of others. We have few of these, the British many. Might FOR SALE THREE DR. STONE'S MAT- TRESSES AND SPRINGS. Two single and one double. Also, Table Lamp. Reasonable. 1114 White Street. decl4-2tx over FOR SALE—Double bath faucet and supply. 526 Francis street. dec16-2t TYPEWRITING PAPER — 500 Sheets, 75c. The Artman Press. may19-tf OLD PAPERS FOR SALE— Three bundles for 5c. The Citi- zen Office. nov25-tf An interesting little book by; Dr. John C. Gifford. on the Keys! MONDAY. DECEMSEE 1¢ ‘not the British pledge some of these? Or their goid production? That empire gold production | ($800,000,000 in 1939), plus the {billion dollars we paid them for imports, more than paid for all British purchases in the United States during the first year of the war. Neither British investments nor gold reserve was affected. So the British can’t be quite broke. The hard-boiled ones _ concede, how- ever, that the British musi haye cashed in sémé‘of ‘their invest ments to cover repayments jfuture was prders end 1 jAmerican factory( ai i Highly ‘placed. "middie-ot-the roaders in the administration take ra milder tack. It would be unfair. on cost of. is, people are talking about dol- Toa 8f ieee Poe a bao lars, but they are thinking & terms of things—war resources. planes, munitions. etc. Great Brx- ain, the exiled Netherlands gov- ernment and the United States share between them mest of the world’s ready raw matermais and industria! sa Visitors to Key West wil me micreice es maybe, or industrial produc they say, to start off by talking to 7! our sorely pressed friends about collateral. Some high quarters, the most influential in ministration, think we ‘should move heaven and earth to get planes to Britain to meet the German spring drive. They argue the British are living like rats in iholes, holding back a modern bar- barian who intends next to grab world resources, build huge new war machines. then attack us in the trade lanes and up through South America. They, think we ought to exam- ine British assets, but not quibble about collateral. They scorn talk of taking any of the British West. Indies, ask what we want with them and add: 7 2 “Britain's been 1} ‘on them. Their populations have demonstrated little capacity fer jgovernment. We want naval bas- es. Our navy’s big enough to en- force the leases we want, regard- less of what happens in the fu- ture”. All these lines of thought are reflected in Congress, too, even more. It’s confusing. Trouble perhaps the ad- Randolph Scott—Kay Francis a WHEN THE DALTONS RODE —also— j Comedy and News sewecccccesoceee-------+ Speaking of GOOD COFFEE try Strong Arm Brand Coffee Imported Cuban, South America and Mocha. Order some to- ; +4 osing money 4 pens in the war. NOTICE?! 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