The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 21, 1941, Page 2

PAG= | bie Ee y Hest Citizen | PURLISHING CO. INZ. Published Daily Except Sunday By L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOB ALL Huxiness Manager From The Citizen Buuding Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ientered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter | er of the Associated Press he Ansocistea Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not etherwise credited in this paper and also the loral news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES me Year ix Mon.hs Three Months Une Month FOR A “PERSONNEL POOL” Governor Holland, in a proclamation | ''to be issued Thursday, will call on the peo- ple of Florida to register with their local defense councils in the formation of a “personnel pool’, providing manpower for any emergency. Skilled men and women from every walk of life will be registered, providing a constant fund of workers for whatever duty it becomes necessary for them to perform. Thus the defense council will know at all times where’to locate in few minutes women with training as nurses, men who can. do a hurry-up repair job on machinery a | or homes, and all the other types of skilled | personne] which would be needed in an emergency. Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE cards of thanks, lutions of ete, ¥ il be charged for at 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which © is to be derived are 6 cents a line. The Citizen ie an open forum and invites discus- and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonyreous communi- cation sion of public iseu | | | | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN | Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. 3. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. | Airports—Land and Sea i] Consolidation ernments. 6 A Modern City Hospital. »f County and City Gov- Hiss, Hess, Hass. Many a war hero would shrink from acting as judge at.a baby show. It is not natural for people on the up \ and up to act uppity, but it happens, England does not know what to do about Hoss. What about trying him for} murder after the war? In dictatorship countries all are slaves | but one. Hess has found that out, and so | will Goering and Goebbels later. Asked where Pickett’s Charge occur- red, one schoolboy ventured to suggest that it was at the Allis-Chalmers plant. Che moving picture “Boom Town” was run in London some time ago. Londoners are aware of that without having to go to the theater, Changes in the conscription law may take place this year. The Army wants the | age minimum dropped to 18—it~ prefers | young men. Another law may be proposed to give the resident authority to defer all | Corscripting older men has | made for social and economic dislocations. | men over Every school of economists has come to | the conclusion that the best way to beat in- flation, the worst thing that can happen to us, is to buy to the limit the small issues of government debt. They may be obtaincd in stamps and bonds, and Postmaster Dion stocked and wil) hg glad to be at your service. . is well A successful business man of Key West when told that The Citizen allows payments for advertising to lapse three months, six months and even a year before payment is demanded, said emphatically that such time allowances were detrimental any business, and that any person in business who cannot and does not pay after the ex- tier of thirty days has no business being in business. It would not take much suasion for the pubisher to be perfect agreement with that statement. to per- in hur Brisbane many times made the “Today’’ that no- body knew anything about money. If this is ¢ in Art cement in his column tturally follows that no one is the monetary * Administration, when it adopts two monetary and fiscal policies" with basic contradiction, sound and in order. that the treasury is asking the lend it $3, avert inflation, Administration has asked for the Presiden To a man up a tree in am tion, this doesn’t make sense, the policies of position to critic the but then criticism is The contradiction is people to attempt same time the 00,000,000 in to while a a renewal of the dollar. considera- power to dev necessar | mainder. ; Woman.” Whatever our private beliefs in. the likelihood of the United States becoming involved in war, or in the ability of our pros- pective enemies to reach us with bombs if this country does become involved, there | can be no question about the wisdom of be- | ing prepared for whatever may come. Perhaps no other people in England | have contributed so much to that country’s ability to keep-on fighting as the civilian, defense forces. Their. superb training and willitigness to work for the good of the | nation, many times must have provided the inspiration to keep the re- the population from giving way to panic, Beyond the actual necessity for having cach a pool of workers available for duty, the community effort which is being called for by the defense councils is a thing of real | __ The disunity ir America propagandists the men, + olue at this time. which so pleases the Axis cannot be too important when | women and children of the nation are will- ing to give up their personal considerations | for a concerted, patriotic effort .of this | kind. A LETTER TO NELSON Interest in the romance of a ‘century and a half ago between Admiral Lord Nel- son and Lady Hamilton has been revived by a recent motion picture, “That Hamilton The last letter written to Nelson by Lady Hamilton is included in a collection by M. Lincoln Schuster. Written at Canter- bury, England, October 6, 1805, it reads: “Dearest Husband of My Heart:— You are all in this world to your Emma— may God send you victory and honour and soon to your Emma, Horatia, and paradise Merton, for when you are there it will be paradisc. My own Nelson, may God pros- ; pér you and preserve you for the sake of your. 1ffectionate Emma.” Lord Nelson was not married to Emma, but Horatia was their daughter. He never | received the foregoing letter, for before it | could reach him he was killed in the sea battle of Trafalgar, won by his daring skill, on October 21, 1805. He thus became Eng- land’s greatest naval hero. Lady Hamilton was one of the most beautiful women of her day, and the noted~ artist, George Romney, with whom she had one of her many love affairs, painted — numerous portraits of her. Although an ad- | venturess, her affection for Lord Nelson was sincere and lasting, surviving his loss. of an eye and an arm in battle. She finally died in poverty at Calais, France, where she |Phad once been jailed for debt, in 1815, when about 50 yearsof age. Her daughter Horatia lived to the age of 80. THE LINDBERGH PUZZLE We are not among ‘those who join in the abuse of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh but we marvel that he is un&ble to see the dif- ference that distinguishes the cause of democracy and the cause of the dictator nations. It is so clear, tous, that the world cannot live at peace, and that individualism cannot retain its hopes, if totalitarianism is to become supreme that we find it diffi- cult to understand the failure of others to see this aspect of the world crisis USING THE BACK DOOR Now that the President has remove the ban on the Red Sea as a combat area, American ships will soon begin service to ports in the Red Sea. The Axis have threatened to sink all ships on sight. In an effort to avoid complications, the ships of the United States will not go across the Atlantic or into the Mediterranean in order to reach Red Sea ports, but, the other hand, will operate across the Pacific, around India and then inte the Red Sea. Everybody hopes that the Axis powers will behave and let our ships preeeed safely powers on THE KEY Y Wist CITIZEN Good old Blackie the Brake— step on him and he stops. you. He'll slow you down if you need to be slowed and. he'll: help. you out, in an emergency. But it’s hard work for Blackie to bring you to a stop and as for his stop- ping you on a dime—well, he says it simply can’t be done, Like anything else, Blackie says, the worse he’s treated the shorter“his. life will be. Blackie says it’s posi- tively criminal to depend upon him to do a normal day’s. job when he’s old, worn out and ex- hausted, He refers you to The ‘Travelers latest highway, safety booklet entitled “Here —" ' which shows that 810 vehicles in fatal accidents and 22,170' véhe- cles in non-fatal accidents’ last year had defective brakes. <LY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings On This Date. Ten Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen sare S. Dongo, and builder, has the contract for construction of the new $10,000 Presbyterian church building, it was announc- ed today. Work on the. strue- ture will begin Monday. Plans for the building call for an auditorium 32 feet by 47 feet, with a Sunday school room, 25 by 60 feet. The building will be T-shaped, and should be ready for occupancy by August. loeal contractor been awarded A mile-and-a-half freight train; setting a new record for this ‘sec? tion, pulled out of Key West last |night, bearing 33,932 crates of | Pineapples. The train was made up of 150 cars, not including the heavy- duty engine and the caboose, and 121 of the cars were loaded with pineapples. A crew of 130 workmen and inspectors loaded the fruit from 5 o'clock in the afternoon to 10 o'clock yesterday morning. City Attorney J. Lancelot Les- | ter today was ordered by city council to prepare a bill trans- ferring the post of sexton of the city. cemetery from general elec- 7 ‘tious Bo appointment by the city! — es : U. S. WEATHER BUREAU REPORT: council. The measure will be sent to Senator Arthur Gomez and Rep- resentative William V. Albury! | for intreduction before the legis- lature, With sheepswool sponges sell- ing at $9 a bunch, local sponge dealers expect total sales for this week to top last week's $3,687 when. cargoes from three boats now. in thé harbor are unloaded. Up to now, sales for this week have amounted to $1,032. Benjamin Ketchum, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Ketchum, nairowly. escaped death _ this morning at about 1 o’clock when an automobile he was drivirz left the county, road, and into the rear of a car parked in the yard of P. Bussey, tore up a coconut tree and broke off a telephone pole five feet. from the ground: Ketchum was taken to his home, where he remained un- conscious unti! about 6 o'clock this morning. Members of the family said he did not appear to be seriously injured, however, having suffered only slight cuts and bruises. Aceuracy of reports from Washington’ today that the local army. barracks are to be ' aban- dencd by the army along with 52 other army posts throughout the nation is doubted here. At present, only a detachment of és occupy the bar- which are kept open for the use of-men who devote most of their time to attending the big guns and equipment at Fort Taylor. Commencement xercises at the Convent of Mary Immaculate will be hé@ld ‘tonight at San Car- los theater: Miss Phyllis Thomp- son will deliver the salutory ad- dress and’ Miss Illma Johnson will be valedictorian. Graduating students Misses Mary Beaver, Eleanore Mae ‘Davis, Juanita Farto, Leo- nor Garcia, Marie Giannone, Il- ma Johnson, Leona B. Rauch, Barbara Rice, Dorothy Taylor, Phyllis Thompson and Anita B. Weatherford. are the PERSONALS — Victor Lowe, formerly of Key West but now a resident-of Miami, left yester- day afternoon after spending several days here on_ business and visiting with relatives. . . William Vassie, machinist with the lighthouse department, who away on business for sev- eral davs, returned by train yes- terday. .Everett Russell, local Standard Oil agent who was in Jacksonville on a business trip, returned yesterday. RUBS BACK SIGHT JACKSON, Mich.—Frank Des} chaine of this city, who was blind in his left eye for eighteen | ago years, rubbed it vigorously and the sight was restored. * districts. Observation taken at 7:30 a. 75th Mer. Time (city office) ‘Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last. night e Mean cS Normal -234)...3TREw Precipitation Rainfall, 24, hours endiig? 7:30,a, m., inches Total rainfall. since May 1, inches Deficiency inches Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches ne Excess January 1, inches 15.57 Wind Direction and Velocity E—9 miles per hour Relative Humidity TM Barometer at,7:30.a, m., today, Sea level, 30.06 (1018.0 millibars) Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise 5:39 a. Sunset 7:08 p. Mocnrise 3:30 a. Moonset. - 4:16. p. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. m., 85 74 80 0.00 0.14 since May 2 2.12 23.81 since m. m. m. m. P.M, High 8:15 Low FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Thursday) Key West and Vicinity: Con- siderable cloudiness with _ scat- tered showers tonight and Thurs- day; moderate easterly winds, fresh at times. Florida: Fair in north, cloudy in south portion with showers in the Straits tonight and Thurs- day. Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate east- erly winds, fresh at times over extreme south portion; fair over north, cloudy over south portion tonight and Thursday. CONDITIONS Moderately high pressure now overspreads most sections of the country, except. southwestern Showers and thun- derstorms have occurred during the last 24 hours frofm the Rio Grande Valley northward. over the southern Rocky, Mountain and central Plains States, and in portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, and. northern Michigan, with heavy rain in northern Tex- as and Oklahoma. Elsewhere fair weather has prevailed with temperatures unseasonably high in many localities east of the Mis- sissippi River, and generally near normal over western dis- triets. G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. the FIRST bottle IN NG fails ny Besta nthe 3 fg, Fae pee moet Fr eae Simply repeat faerie Loe ‘as need- | ed while nature helps hi It’s always the SORE thumb that sticks out... Odd, isn’t it—the way everybody notices the sore thumb? It’s the same way with the retailing of beer, Everybody knows about the one undesirable place...everybody seems to forget about the thousands of worth- while retailers who operate clean, decent, law-abiding establishments. To protect the good name of beer, we of the beer industry want the few.. but noticeable...“‘black sheep” retailers eliminated. That’s not all. Such retailers endanger an industry that brings important eco- nomic benefits to the community. Right here in Florida beer provides employ- ment for 18,294 persons, supports an tributed $1 taxes. materials, You can annual payroll of $15,757,151 and-con- ,735,893.93 Jast year in state in the beer industry’s purchases—for from more than 100 other industries. help us protect these benefits in two ways—by (1) patronizing only the law-abiding places where beer ia sold and (2) by reporting any irregularities you may observe to the duly constituted authorities. 1:50" ’ HOUSE FOR SALE. WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1941 POC CO CS Le Temes eoreesoereresereer enw esee PROFESSIONALS LOUIS. A. HARRIS Attorney at Law 217 Duval St. Phone 252 ¥ may20-1mo tet 80. ‘FOR. " SALE—MISCELLANEOUS. — FOR SALE. or Exchange—Cabin. Cruiser, 28-it., 6-ft, beam; 40 hp. Gray Marine Engine. Will exchange for. lot, full or part payment. Box B.R., The Citi- zen, mar6-té BARGAIN ITEMS 2 Solar Heaters, $35 each; Toilet Sets, $10 up; Boat Propellers, Marine Engines, Lavatory, Tubs, Sinks, Water Heater: $10 up. Home water pum pipes, fittings (all sizes), A.C., D.C. motors, fans, rotary con- verter, flexible cable, fai lathes, drills and many ot items to choose from. GRAY’S FISHERY, Qjus, Fla. may20-7t 19-FQOT. SEMI-CABIN CRUIS- ER, A-1 Condition. Fish Box and license; .cxtinguisher. $109 cash.) Apply. Box NR, Citizen. may21-tf FURNITURE. Street or 1-3t SECOND-HAND Apply 613 Caroline Phone 413-W, JAEGER Centrifugal Pump. 10,000 gals. per .hr. Complete with suction _ hose. Mounted on pheumatic tires. Thoroughly re-tonditioned. Price $100, East Coast Equip- ment Company, 1228 S.W. First street, Miami, Florida. two-inch apr2l-Imo | FOURTEEN FT. SAILBOAT Fully. equipned. $100. James H Pinder. 1217 Petronia Street. jan3-s OLD PAPERS FOR SALE- Three bundles for 5e. The Citi- zen Office. jan25-tf. FOR RENT EFFICIENCY. COTTAGES, elec- tricity and gas furnished, Ap- ply Albury’s Service, 800 Si- monton. street. may1l?-t£ FURNISHED APARTMENT, Art- craft Studio, cor. Charles and New streets. Tel. 422-J, may15-6tx FURNISHED APARTMENT. Ap- ply 905 Ashe street. may19-3t FOR RENT — To couple, new, modern furnished Garage Apartment. Two bedrooms. In Martello. Towers suddivision. Telephone 839. may15-tf NEWLY FURNISHED APART- MENT. all. modern cénven- i hot running water. Ideal for couple. No children or pets allowed. Apply 1100 Packer. street. may13-tf. ‘COTTAGE, no Apply 803 may5-tf FURNISHED _ children, no. pets. Olivia street. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms with hot. and cold running wa- ter; cool and comfortable; use of private beach and © swim- ming, peel. Summer rates: per week, single $7.00, double $10.00. North Beach Inn, on the Gulf. of Mexico. mayl9tf. F ‘oul R - - ROOM “APARTMENT, hot water, private bath; Adults. Available v 22; 74f blocks from Na Yard; $30 year around, Apply 912 James street. may20-4t WANTED—Second- Hana Furni- ture and Carpenter’s Tools. P.O. Box 363. apr25-12tx - WANTED—A chance to bid on vour next printing order. The Artman ok apr9-tf $300 CASH for quick sale, lot 12, square 4,° tract 20. Washington street, A. L. Murray, Columbia Laundry. aprl5-s 710 Olivia 616 White may19-Iwkx Street. Street. FOURTEEN FT. OUTBOARD MOTOR BOAT. Fully equipped and one Johnson Outboard mo- | tor, 4 hp. $150, James H Pinder, 1217 Petronia Street. jan3-s Sine A SHEETS—500 for 50c. ie Artman Press. nov19-tf 'STORE with Apply living quarters, Olivia and Windsor Lane. Lot 60x100’; 1%-story house on Olivia street; lot corner Von Phister and George Sts.; 3 lots Big Pine Key. Apply 1014 Grinnell street. apr25-s | FOR SALE—Best Cleaning and Pressing business in town. P.O. Box 423. may6-tf HOUSE MON MOVING HOUSES MOVED. Estimates given; good equipment. A. O, Taylor, "phone: 165. may15-lwk Subseribe tc The Citizen, 20¢ weekly. os WANTED- 2 building lots join- ed, Must be reasonable for cash, Box JX, The Citizen. may19-6tx HELP WANTED GROCERY CLERK, full or part time. Apply Box RX, The Citizen. may16-tf PICTURE FRAMING PICTURE FRAMING, Diplomas; antique frames refinished. Pie- tures matted. Paul DiNegro, 614 Francis street, aprlé-tt ~~ ‘MISCELLANEOUS NOTICE I AM NO LONGER operating at 518 Fleming St. My new place of BUSINESS is located at 915 Grinnell street. Friends and patrons are cordially invited to drop in. JACK HARRIS PHOTOS. may 17sdt-mon-wed-sat HOTELS BRING YOUR VISITING friends in need of a good night's rest to THE OVERSEAS HOTEL. Clean rooms, enjoy the yar atmosphere. Satisfactory rates, And, try’ THE COFFEE SHOP, it's economical, and has “that” tasty food. and atmosphere, 917 Fleming. street, apri-tf VITA-YAR ouicx-onvine spor Varnish tokes more punithment thon amy other var- nish mode! Use t ovtdoors and in...for every vornith purpose ~ boats, furnituts, woodwork, Boars. Leste twice os tong PIERCE BROTHERS Fleming and Elizabeth Sts. Phone 270, pat