The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 6, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO The iisy Weat Citizen | Hie CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. Pullished Dally Except Sunday By MAN, President and Publisher , Business Manager THE NAVY COMES BACK Key Westers are jubilant over word that headquarters of the seventh naval dis- trict, which includes all of Florida except | Pensacola and the area west of there, will | be returned here from Charleston, S. C. er in Key West and County ed at K , Florida, as second class matter | kor he Asociated Press 1 Press is exclusively entitled to use | for republic iit -ndWs A@fspatéi%s éPedited to | it or not ctherw dited in this paper and also the 1] news published here. ber SUBSCRIPTION RATES yne Year Stx Months Most people here have blamed Secre- tary of the Navy Swanson during the Hoo- ver administration fon removing the dis- trict headquarters from Key West and re- | ducing the station to “ghost town’ propor- tions, . Actually, the policy of the United States at that time was hinged on the idea | of a world forever at peace and reduction of the Key West naval station was only one | of hundreds of similar cases throughout the nation. In any event, transfer of district head- ' quarters back to Key West and the steady RATES Made known on application, TAL NOTICE ards of thanks, resolutions of ete. V al be charged for at line inment by churches from which « is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen 1s an open forum and invites discus- f public issues and subjects of local or general | t but it will not publish anonymous commani- | enter , IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED. BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Land and Sea. vf County and City Gov- Airports Consolidation ernments. 6 A Modern City Hospital. cience began when man attempted to find reason in nature, The year 1941 has no meaning for some people until the umpire calls, “Pla ball!” ‘ People who mind their own business daliccessfully, usually are too busy to stick | ‘their noses in that of their neighbors. ¢ o The motive power of the Democratic | State is the common consent of all the in- Mividuals if possible, and of the majority if | Stherwise. Royalty is often referred to as blue- ‘Plooded, but the only real “blue bloods” in the world, science says, are lobsters, snails ‘ind oysters. - buted very largely to the liberation of Bul- | garia in the year 1876, and now they are | Under the Hitler heel. It is an ill wind that blows no man | grood, Representative Martin L. Sweeney of Ohio instituted a libel suit against Drew | Pearson, co-author with Robert S, Allen, of | the United Feature column, “Washington- | Merry-Go-Round”, who is now hibernating im Key West. Defense of that suit kept Mr. eargon from taking, as he intended, the astern Airline sledpérWhidh brdshed early | Mhursday morning Of last weak | near, At- Janta, Ga. So he sent in telée ™ of anks | f> Mr. Sweeney for suing him, ‘for other- w hejmight have been killed or injured j in the cash, ' | It is not likely that Germany will ever tome over here to attack the United States. #rgland is only 24 miles from France from where Hitler has unsuccessfully tried to in- wade England, while 3,000 miles separate ws from Germany. Soon, it is said, Hitler will try to devastate England with 8,000 bombing planes, but in order to make such atts t is estimated 16,000 highly trained Hhilitary pilots would be necessary and 6,- rallons allon *k of gasoline required for an mn effort lasting less than nine hours. ther the pilots nor the gaso- yy war-mongers who de- rial gain. Criticism of the Press by. President Roosevelt Washingt velt tried to gotten under the skin of the Mr press nm newspaper men Roose ake it clear ata con- ferenc t he had no wish to impose cen- sorship upe y news, but he told cor. responder ter responder xyery ca York here at they had reported a mat- printed. The een treating the topic Athur Krock of the New remarks: y reporters should not be cer- Time able to re ders m > statistic clopedia shipping manual ard the Ency itannica.” | half a dozen e3 increase in the size and importance of the station are sources of great satisfaction to the entire city. With the local station doubling in size by the month and slated for command by an admiral, it seems incredible to. remember that three years ago Lieut.-Comdr. Calla- han was the only commissioned officer here, filling the positions now occupied by utives. Navy expansion is only beginning to get into fulfswing now and within the next six months to ar Key West can look forward to continued increases in the size establishment. It’s a good prospect there will be no repetition f it end apparently | of the old ship-sinking policy. BILL OF RIGHTS WEEK Under authority of an act passed last | year by the New York legislature, « that state has just celebrated Bill of Rights Week, the object of which is to emphasize the “purpose, meaning and importance of | the Bill of Rights, in the edueation of children. The week was marked by rallies by many school, church and civic or- ganiza with suitable exercises in which the liberties guaranteed by the first ten amendmerts to the Constitution were contrasted with the almost complete ab- sence of freedom in totalitarian countries: It is well that the youth of America should be taught to preciate these liberties, especially at sucha time as the present, when subversive ele- particularly ions. ments of our population are seeking to un- | dermine and destroy our most cherished in- stitutions. The United States with organizations sponsored by Nazis, Fascists and Communists and _ their pathizers, who spread their poisonous doc- trines by every possible means, as has been is honey-combed shown by the revelations of the Dies com- | | mittee. Most of these organizations adopt patriotic-sounding names to hide their true | character, and often obtain financial and other support from otherwise good citizens. Educational efforts such as_ those of Bill of Rights Week should be helpful in keeping American youth from being in- fluenced by subversive groups. MIGHTY SINGAPORE Since the situation in the Far East has becomemmore acute, interest in that region has been largely centered about Singapore, | Britain’s great naval base and key to south- eastern Asia and the East Indies. The development of Singapore naval stronghold was begun in 1925 and in- volved an expenditure of more than 150 million dollars. It was formally opened on February 14, 1938, when United k part in the ceremonies. a as three States cruiser: Tt ini ne protected base is capable of practically half of the Bri d has the second largest graving world, besides a floating dry take vessels of 50,000 tons. tidal basin has neg a mile of wharf th water depths of-from 30 to 40 There are immense ammu- lroad sidings, t will The \y 1 vn suppl ts fl vrintr ane and reservo There varrison of 10,000 a million t sia Jarge air base and a normal some of elaborate which include ns, besides craft and a large patriotic , understand and ap-/} sym- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ALONG CAME CINDERELLA By VIVIEN GREY | YESTERDAY, Lovely Daye spent the day picnicking with Joe Hulse and another couple on the estate of Roger Cosgrave’s parents along the Hudson above New York. They would have been asked to leave if Roger had not been fascinated by Love- ly's blonde beauty. But when Lovely got back to her tenement home she found her sister. Gert quarreling with her husband, . Ring, and realized that as long as she stayed with, them hen; sister would ‘suffer. is rest- ing on the bench at the Grand Central station, reviewing her life. Chapter Four Sudden Excursion FTER that there had been jobs. Clerking in a bakery. In the five and dime. Attempting to learn millinery. But Lovely was smart enough to see that she’d not got in her hands the gift re-. | quired for skilled work on hats or dresses. She really wasn’t much at any sort of work. She would have liked modeling and would have worked hard at that. Or the stage. Or office work. But try as she might she was never. able to connect with that sort of job. And so Lovely had been in and out of jobs. Gert had always been patient and generous, slipping her money for things she needed, ad- vising her gently and affection- ately. 3! “Don’t let. life’ get -you down, hon,” she’d say. “You've got stuff. Looks and personality and a lot of things I never had. Don’t let fear gang you into marrying a alooka. Play for something high. r mean a man with class and a wedding ring along with him. Make sure you get that too. I'll stake you, until you land, believe me.” And Gert had done her best. But Lovely knew she couldn’t go on taking from Gert. Sitting there in the terminal she wondered exactly what she would do. Sheer weariness closed her eyes and she slept for a while. When she woke she could see through the restaurant adjoining the waiting room another day had lighted the humid -city streets. People were moving about hur- riedly. Commuters rush hour was on Everyone seemed to have some- where to go. Everyone but her. Lovely was seized with desire to be going somewhere herself. That place up there in the coun- try just beyond Croton. It had been heavenly. There wus a little money in her purse. Joe had given it'to her to buy some of the things for their picnic, about three times what he knew they would cost and had told her taj | keep the change. “And ['m a man what means’ what he says. 1 don’t want ‘tu sce any of that filthy dough back again!” he’d wartied her. That was his quaint way of giving her a little money from time to time. He knew she always needed it. Lovely smiled in reminiscence. Joe had his points. Solid, substan- tial dependable ones. She opened the little soiled) white purse her fingers almost ached from clutching. Two dollars and a little change left. Dare she spend it on train fare when she knew she'd need food before the day was out? Lovely looked around at the hurrying people. The urge to be one of | them was strong It was just then the thing was taken out of her hands and de- cided for her. A woman ap- proached her with a smiling ques- tion. Lovely recognized the type. She knew instantly the woman | represented some organization that would try to help her by sending her right back to Gert and Ring. So she heard herself saying valiantly and with quick wit: r “Oh, ‘sure, T'mlon ‘my way to visit friends in Croton! | guess ] must have slept-too long on this | bench ang mjsged «my, train. Sure I've got'rhoneyfor my fare. See!” She opened the little purse with its two bills’and Bit of change. “Guess I'd better get my ticket now.” And so that was the way it | happened. The ticket cost nearly a dollar. Lovely was aware of the woman not too far away while she bought | it. She was relieved when she was | finally beyond the gate and no} longer watched. | New World Tt ride straight up the Hud- son was lovely re was scarcely anyone in the train going north at that hour. Morning} freshness lay over the scene out- side her window. Squatters in their funny patched shacks clinging miraculously to the river bank were just begin- ming to besabent, set their fishing lines, feed their, dogs, hang out their picture puzzle bedding. the zigzag porth of ohe shack a young girl was hanging up 8 geudy wash. thought Lovely, like reeze. if she had never eyen heard 6f| fidts where windows look out only on_ dark alleys and smelly streets. Her skimpy dress, as she moved, left nothing to even the feeblest i tion. Near Tarry- town some little boys were tug- ging off their clothes for a swim in the cold water. Near an old factory building a woman fed a jery moves, | of thefittle station, Just a little way upthe river—walking along the track_would ‘be the ‘easiest way to get there—was the picnic spot, the spot where Roger Cos- grave ‘hat‘looked down at her and smiled and given Lovely her first | glimpse of another world. It had_been like a door opening unexpet ily on a place lovelier than she’ had ever dreamed of. His voice: His way of speaking. His-way of looking at her. All so different. , It was pleasant to sit on the hemlock needles, her arms clasped around’ her knees, and watch the river. ‘Across the way the spires of a village were ale There was a pictere postcard prettiness about the whole thing, a faint tangy scent of evergreen, a lulling silence, ‘‘hot broken but made more profound by the soft swish of the needled branches over head. It was all that gave Lovely a sensé of peace and@closed her mind ‘to’ the uncertainty of the immediate future. “Well!=Did they leave you be- hind? Or am I dreaming? Lovely recognized the voice in- stantly. “I came back,” she said simply, smiling up at Roger Cosgrave. “Came back?” Curiosity in his voice as he dropped down beside her, “How come?” “Yes, you see it’s like this. When you have so many invitations you can’t decide which one to accept and you're afraid of offending away to the country for a few days! Just like that!” Her hands moving in a gay gesture. regarding her with flatering in- tentness..‘So Lady Luck smiles on me."; : “If you’d call it that,” the brightness of her smile wearing down a little. Lovely was tired. She was beginning to know she hadn't eaten breakfast. Yet some- thing about Roger Cosgrave gave her a safe; secure feeling that brought relaxation. Bacon And Eggs ae looked down, sifting fra- \ grant hemlock needles through her fingers. His gaze was a little too searching. Not unkind or critical. But too thorough. Lovely was ‘afraid he was reading things in the little details of her. No fresh grooming. Exactly the same clothes. Evidence of weariness. They talked a little. The estate the woodland was part of was his father’s, had been his father’s 'be- fore him. There’d ‘always been a Cosgrave there. And Haverstraw, the spires of which were visible across the river, was where Jim Farley ‘cdme from. The sound of a bell tolling came ‘clearly across the river as they listened. This #asreally Oscawana—if you could call it a town. And a little way up-the river was quaint Ver- planck, an old fishing village, where every spring thousands of pounds of Shad ‘were taken from the water, “T'd: love to see it,” dreamily from’ Lovely. “You shall. Don’t ever say any- thing you don’t mean to me be- cause I'll take you ae instantly on it. But first I could do with some bacon with eggs on the side. And maybe a piece of toast with guavaijelly and as many cups of coffee_as-the need of the moment dictates. And you're going with me. ia He ‘was, on his feet, stretching out his, hands to her. Lovely looked’ dp! trying to smile over something ‘perilously near tears. “How. did you know hungry?” she asked. “Well,” both standing, his eyes as he-spoke just a little above the level of hers, “I saw a look in your eyes that made me think you and 1 might agree some- times.” (''* “Thank something for that look then if ig means bacon and eggs!” There was no use pretending with him. No use pretending ever with any one, Lovely had decided long ago. “We'll go up-to the house and I'll get’ at car.” For ‘the: first. time Lovely paused. She looked down at her slacks. “Like this? I‘can’t. Not to your house.” Roger considered a minute. It might be better for her introduc- tion to the house to be a little dif- ferent. “Then wait around there on the stone wall at the drive,” he said. “I won't be a minute.” He was as good as his word. | The luxurious roadster was a far from the gaudy, rattling jalopy Lovely had driven that road in the night before. She sat beside the tanned youth with his air of accustomed wealth in a sort of trance. Could it be real? Roger turned south on the Al- bany Post Road. Lovely looked at \each stand ~~ passed expectant- | ly and was a little startled when jhe swung the car into the drive | of Tumble dnp, gragions old stone pile rambling comfortably along a crag above the Hudsan. “Not a place like this in these old pants!” she protested. “My dear, you look fit to be | presented to Queen Elizabeth!” They were shown, and quite | ceremoniously, to a table on the | glass enclosed piazza and no | glances at Lovely’s slacks! They had a sweeping view of the Hud- son and fresh flowers in a low vase were brought to their — Roger sitting opposite, watch- ing Lovely, thought: She’s lovely. ht moving on water. Life un- flock of chickens and ducks. The Shattamuc Yacht Club was com- alive. he heard the brakeman call Croton. She was on the platform folding in the petals of a flower. | Wind blowing on tall sweet grass. 1A miratle \ ‘To be continued those you turn down, you run | “I see,” from Cosgrave who was ' was , WEST IN | ‘DAYS GONE BY Happenings On This Date Ten! Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen TO TS Bert Gagnon, well-known in, Key West as:a theatrical -produc- | er, is visiting here for a few) | IKEY THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1941 Observation taken at 7:30 a. 75th Mer. Time (city office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night Mean aes Normal ____ Precipitation 69 72 days with old friends Gagnon |Rainfall,..24. hours ending lis now head of-2 company play- ing out of Green Bay, -Wisoveo) | Samuel Kemp was ‘host ‘’“last } night at his Southard street | home to a gathering of ene | who came unexpectedly to chris-| ten three Spitz puppies. | The visitors arrived in a body, | loaded with gifts, and told Kemp; they had arrived to attend the! christening party. Arrival of Navy Secretary | Adams here March 22 aboard | the U.S.S. Chester, brings Key | West her second large ship of | the month. Adams will arrive} here several days after the de- parture of the British ship Drag- | on, which will spend five days here later this month. | Triangle club members of Temple No. 20, Pythian _ sisters, | |met with Mrs. Sydney Thomp- } json last night to discuss plans |for a silver social. Members present included Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Antoinette Rob- erts, Mrs. Bethel Albury, Mrs. Mamie Lunn, Mrs. ‘Curry, Mrs. Louis Thompson, | Mrs. Macie Smith, Mrs. Alice | Scheurer, Mrs. Nathalie Curry, Mrs, Isabel Hamlin, Mrs. Jennie Gwynn, Mrs. Corinne Jerman,! Mrs. Nora Kemp, Mfrs. Bessie} Lowe, Mrs. Nellie Johnson, Mrs. | ‘Florine Saunders and Mrs. Mary Ryan. Charlotte | Key West observance of the| southern Memorial day, April/| 26, were discussed at a meet- | ing of Stephen R, Mallory chap- ter, United Daughters of the ‘Con- federacy, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allan B. Cleare last night. | Members of the group attend- wee! ing were Mrs. Claude Albury, president of the chapter; Mrs. | Cleare, Mrs. W. E. Huston, Mrs. Ross Sawyer, Mrs. Nellie Curry, Miss Lillie Watlington, Miss jLena Johnson, Mrs. Fanny Curry | and Miss Dorothy Cleare. | The Citizen, in ‘editorial -para- \graphs, said: “Nothing may come of the -al- leged seizure of records in a-re- cent prohibition raid here, -but it’s good honest dollars to ‘over- done, over-stale doughnuts ‘that several local folks haven't quit worrying about it yet... “More than $800,000 for Key West during one session of Con- gress would seem to ‘indicate that |i somebody in Washington is! keeping this tight little isle in mind. Ané sifice 'this is “fhe ‘fifst time in ‘a ‘coon’s age this has Haip- pened, there can’t be much ques- tion about who it is. . . “The more ‘one hears ‘of what regular army officers _ think about Fort Taylor as a training camp site, the more likely it seems that Kev West will become a reguar training base”. Girl Scouts of Troop 4 attend- ed a wiener roast last night and brought their boy friends as, guests. Present were Miss Louise Ketchum, Everett er-, nall\Miss Fay Spencer, J \Higag; Miss Eva May Ketel . Bad Wates, Miss Mary / - marsh, John Archer, S- Marion Russell. Lumley Parks,” Miss Marjorie Baker and Ray- mond ‘Curry. i a | Personals—Paul Gibson left on}, the night train yesterday for Mi- ami, where he will with relatives for a week. Mrs. H. A. Edwards, on a visit to Havana, retarned yesterday. Miss Antonia Gar- ¢ who was visiting with rela-/ visit who ‘were / West vesterday. Attorney John | | High 7:30 a. m., inches _ Total rainfall since March 1, inches 22030. i. Deficiency ‘Since “March 1, Teieen reste Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches Excess ‘since NBIGR ps8 8 5 a 3.91 Wind Direction and Velocity E—9 miles per hour ‘Relative Humidity 95 % Baromi€tér at '7:30°a."mn., Sea level, 80:04 (1017.3 *millibars) Tomorow’s Almanac Sunrise .. 6:44 a. m. Sunset Moonrise srueg § . m. Moonset 0.00 Ts 0.24 Lae . ‘Tal January 1, (Naval Buse) . AM. 5:37 55 P.M Low FORECAST (Till '7:30 p. m., Friday) -Key West and Vicinity: Con- siderable cloudiness with mild | temperature tonight and Friday; modérate to fresh east and south- east ‘winds, Florida: Mostly cloudy. tonight jand Friday; rain over north, and central yortions Friday, prob- ably beginning in northwest ‘and extréme ‘north portions late to- inight; ‘slightly warmer in north and central pértions ‘tonight. Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Modérate to fresh ‘east and southeast winds; over- cast weather tonight and Friday, showers over north and central portions ‘Friday. GS. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. aig to ‘The ‘Citizen, 20c sity 64) | x am 5 ate : Today’s Birthdays | Seen eS ASSESSES Judge Harold M. Stephens of }the U.S. Court of Appeals for the {District of Columbia, born at Crete, Nebr., 55 years ago, William D. Mansfield of Mec- jKeesport, Pa. newspaper ‘pub- lisher-editor, born in Elizabeth, ‘Pa, 63 years ago. n 6 feak f | ‘Miss Sarah “Wambaugh’ of Cant bridge, Mass., onetime plebiscite (commissioner of the League of |Nations, born in Cincinnati,) +59 iyears ago. | | Herbert Kaufman jtown, N. Y., noted editor, born in ,C., 63 years ago. of Tarry- author and Washnigton, D. 1 Thomas B. White, warden of ithe Federal Correctional ‘Insti- tute, El Paso, Tex., born at Oak Hill, Tex., 60 years ago. Prof. Soloman S. Huebner of |the University of Pennsylvania, *|noted authority on finance and jinsurance, born Manitowe, | Wis., 59 years ago. at 4:26 | ns: Qld? Get Vim ‘with tron, pet Pep, Vim WEN: WOMEN i022: 00,22 5 hausted. Take Ostrex. 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