The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 13, 1941, Page 4

PAGE FOUR NORMANDIE, FRANCE’S GREATEST LINER, CLASSED AS WAR ORPHAN SERMON SUBJECT | By AMY PORTER, AP NEW YORK, March visitors are allowed French liner Normandie, but that doesn't stop ghosts from getting) «wine, of course”, said the cap- in. And I went aboard, too,, via the gangplank. : Since the war began in Sep- tember, 1939, the Normandie has River. The French-speaking main- tenance crew of 115 keeps to it- self. At night only one or two flickering lights appear on favorite unanimously the|the most expensive brand to be Feature Service Writer 13.—No ; Zanger. “Does that look like star- aboard the/vation? Carre de mouton roti— !very good!” | “And wine?” | tain. |. The store’ of French wine gave! Zanger But Jain, U.S.N., as he continues been docked at Pier 88, Hudson before he Selected a brand, he let various American wines. They voted their |Methodist (Stone) church tonight. | was, Key West Civic Orchestra, un-| What wild-eyed, especially on the !assume military control and con- Mionday evening, March 17th, at lout recently, so Capt. {bought California’s product. |the crew taste samples of ship that in the old days was lit!had. like a gas station. apt. Alfred under up joyfully, I asked first officer Herve le Huede, about the rumors | (variously reported as from $5 to ig at 7:30 o'clock. one hears. Sabotage? captain, In the first place, Nonsense, said the} no visitors are allowed except by jance crew of 130 had deserted and night as he preached on the mo- French Line. | gone to join General De Gaulle’s ;mentous subject of “Repentance”. perm m of the No packages can come aboard! until they have been opened and! examined men must show} identification cards at the gang- plank, and utmost precautions are taken against fire. The ship’s| 160,000 horsepower engines are kept in good condition. She could sail tomorrow. Mutiny? Starvation? Well, let's make a tour of the} ship”, said Capt. Zanger. We did, | iby flashlight. | Ghostly enough, but hardly menacing, is the deserted dinings| salon with its furnishings and | even its light fixtures shrouded in | muslin. The odor of moth balls; ervades the rooms that once nted with France’s finest ; perfumes. The long dim corridors | leading to other deserted places} were chilly, and our footsteps! made cely a sound on the che cloth floor coverings. | We passed the swimming pool (“Last summer we filled it. with | Hudson river water but it was} too dirty”). We visited the chil-| dren’s playroom with its motion- | less merry-go-round, The huge kitchen where 15 chefs used to prove the excellence | of the French cuisine is unused; now except for one stove. Here} Chef Paul Bourdet presided over a ory smelling kettle. Tonight's dinner”, said Capt. Entertain At Casa Marina | Mrs. Calvin Fentress, Jr., of Lake Forest, entertained at din-| include Mr. and Mrs. Robert c, |street. ner at the Casa Marina last eve- ning, after a cocktail party in the patio, for Mr, and Mrs. ‘Jéhn P. Bent, who arrived from ;‘Lake Forest yes y. Other guests were Mis anor Foster, Mrs. Otis L. Hubbard, Mr. and Mrs. E. H, Crump, Jr,, Frank Cotter and Apparently, the seamen live Zanger, the life of Riley. But there have mental music | Commander |been grumblings over low pay ceding the regular evening serv-jor that it will undermine the seems to mean that in the event |trated with lantern slide pictures. $20 a month). In September of last year it was reported that 90 percent of the original mainten- volunteer forces in Ther another report that crew- men are giving blood donations to the British. Neither Capt. Zanger nor the French Line would comment on the reports. Certainly the crew looks well- fed and happy. Their clothing and keep are provided and hospitable Americans. send them tickets to the theater, the movies and the opera. continue regular shipboard class- es. There's a doctor on board, but, says Capt. Zanger, the men are forgives a human soul for its un-|than the risks that this country | never sick. And there’s a little Catholic chapel where a_ light burns at all times. The men stop in there frequently. Most of the crew comes from German-occupied Brittany. They had had no word from their fam- ilies for almost a year, until re- cently, when a cable from the French Admiralty arrived. cable, posted in the gangway, lists dozens of names followed by “families well”. Then names list- ed one at a time are followed by such information as “father dead, family well’, “brother pris- pner, family well”, “sister mar- ried, uncle prisoner”. debe Casa Marina Recent arrivals at Casa Marina Fenner, of Evanston, Ill.; Mrs. Henry Whitehouse, of Mt. Kisco, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Philo Orton, of Chicago; Louis Root, of Boca Raton; George C. Clarke, Wash, {ington, D. C.; Mr. and Mrs. C meron, Grosse Pointe, Mich.; Mr. ‘and Mrs. Wharton — Sinkler, Mr. and Mrs. H. R and it was The | ~ \street, at 9:00 o’clock. Tomorrow THE KEY WEST CITIZEN “THREE HELLS” i TO BE DELIVERED TONIGHT) BY CHAPLAIN CRAFT AT STONE CHURCH REVIVAL |"MINISTRY OF DEFENSE” |FACTS ABOUT THE BASES |DEBATE DELAYS CONGRESS AIRPLANES AND ENGINES | “Three Hells” is the subject se- lected by Rev. Blake Craft, chap-| the First evangelistic campaign at Debate on the Lease-Lend Bill in our opinion, some- |part of opponerts. Frankly, we see no basis for the allegation ;that the measure will “establish pre-|a dictatorship” in this country, der direction of Geo, Mills White, will play a program of instru- immediately fundamental liberties of the American people. That it imple- ments a new national policy, making the United States the arsenal for the democracies” is undoubtedly true. This repre- the listeners { Chaplain Craft held attention of his rapt | last Canada. | point upon point was piled up by |sents a tremendous shift of posi- ; United ;the agreement permits the Unit- | him speak. the speaker in clearly proving the |tion on the part of the U fact that unless one experiences States but it seems to be in ac- a genuine repentance for the | ion. wrongs committed in life he can} never see the Kingdom of God. | In the coure of Rev. Blake's re- | the ‘marks, he explained the differ- 1¢2lly ence between an earthly and a fetched. jheavenly pardon. “Whereas ‘eriminal is pardoned by the gov-| carrying out The accusation that passage of Lease-Lend Bill puts the United State: Undoubtedly, the Unit- 4 ed States will face some risk in s determination to wrongs he has done which re-'selves from aggression. It ‘sulted in him beoming a crim-|matter of argument, however, /inal. On the other hand as God|whether these risks are greater irighteous acts he places them as will assume through inaction. \far away.as east is from west Considerable differenct of opin- from the individual and gives ion exists on the {him a clean slate on which to re-|everyone is entitled to his own |cord a life spent in the ways of | conclusion. | righteousness”. | All children of the city are in-| We might sugge: vited to join the Junior Choir that|tion with the Lease-Lend _ Bill is assisting with the music at that the reader should _ se- evening services. A spirited con- cure a copy of the legislative pro- test is under way and the win- posal and read it carefully. The jning side has been promised an Scope of the bill is set forth in lentertainment of some sort. |understandable terms and_ while Fifteen-minute devotional serv-|S0me matters are left to the dis ices for businessmen were insti-|cretion of the President, the in- tuted this morning as a group tent of Congress is readily appar- lmet in the establishment of ent. Of course, those Americans jAaron McConnell on Fleming who distrust the President are adamantly opposed to giving him any powers whatsoever. , in connec- morning businessmen are invited ‘to gather for another fifteen-| 'minute devotional and inspira- |tional talk by Rev. Craft at the} , Store of Frank Johnson on Duval However, in the present state of world conditions, it seems in- evitable that a democracy, in or- 4 @{| ‘er to assert its rights, must pro- | vide its elected officials with TWO PROPERTY ——— "DEALS RECORDED i Four Cabinet officers, Secre taries Hull, Morgenthau, Stimso and Knox, are expected to ad-! minister the procurement pro- gram in the co-operative rearma- |! ment effort of the United States | and Great Britain and to act a: Two property _ transactions, one of them made in April, 1938, were recorded in county court- subject and} Leexcane NOTED ARTIST WILL at | By HUGO S. SIMS, Special Washington Correspondent of The Citize>| ar 11GH SCHOOL MON- ganization, charged with the job of producing the materials need- led. The President is expected to head the setup, keeping a con- stant hand on the organization jon its work, | "The Anglo-Américat destroy- | r-base deal of: last Summer pro- vides that the United States can |duet military operations in any jpart of the territory affected if jnecessary for the protection of jthe new American bases. This States can instantly take over the British possessions in the At- jlantic, Caribbean and South | America. ie an emergency, the United | | ponent S4 Moreover, it is pointed out that jed States to acquire additional cord wih majority public opin- !defense areas on a similar ninety- Gothic” inine-year lease arrangement, if jdesired, and that American naval lauthorities are given the right to automat- use waters near the bases and to pase use highways and existing nav- into the war is somewhat far- jalfacilities’ in the territ@figs"on | jthe same basis as_ British | thorities. au- Some of the men are studying | enor and is allowed His freedom|arm Great Britain, Greece, China, Besides, Chairman Carl Vinson, | English, but there was not suffi-| fom prison”, the chaplain said,|and, possibly other nations that }of the House Naval Affairs Com-| within the next few months», In cient interest in the subject to «he cannot forget or right the ate engaged in defending them- | mittee, points out that the cost of |1940, the aircraft industry alost is alall private iand to be purchased |Goubled its floo- jby this Government will be about $2,000,000. The bases will cover 63,772 acres, with 12,392 acres be- ‘ing under naval jurisdiction and |61.380 acres in the control of the Army. Mr. Vinson’s revelation made in reply to critics of deal who attempted to establish ‘that the British had been unfair jwith the United States. He points out that under the agree- ‘ment, this country can, if ne |sary, control the operation of jships and aircraft within the areas leased, control all commun- ications from and to the United |States bases, install armamen' jnets, bombs, and similar dev {in areas leased and establish its jown military police and import free from-all duties, imposts, ex- tcises, tolls, customs or any other 'assessments, all apparatus ne- necessary to establishing the | |COLUMBIA RESTAURANT } American and Spanish Cooking 117 Duval Street | CHARCOAL STEAKS and | FAMOUS FISH DINNERS | prepared by well-known former chef of El Chico, Miami Beach was International Cuisine Chef 7-course DeLuxe Dinner —— 50c B. M. 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