The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 27, 1941, Page 2

PAGE Two WPIZEN PURIASHING CO. shed Daily @xeept Sunday I AN, President and Publisher |, Business Manager From The Citizen Bus Corner Greene and Ann Strceta Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ered at Key ‘West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press Me “Associstea 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 focal ne SUBSCRIPTION RATES me-Year ix Momhs Three Months one Menth Khy $10.00 5.00 2.50 85 20 ADVERTISING RATES Mude known on application. SPECIAL NOTI ‘AN fending notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary netices, ete. ¥ il be charged for at the rate o/ 10 cents a Tine. Notices for entertatmment by churches from which is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen 1s an open forum and invites discus- FeVenue rhe yion of public issues and subjects of local or general ti t but it wil nut publish anonyreous communi- gation IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hoteis and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation »f County 4nd City Gov- ernments. ™ 6 A Modern City Hospital. Today's speci Mouth of Wilson, iver is using arrplanes to get there set with the mostest men.” fus “Tam an American” is a meaningless phrase unless we are good and true Amer- icans, Service to youth is as fine a contribu- tion a8 any adult can make to the improve- ment of Key West. the Demo- Long ago Aristotle emphasized t that it is easier to establish a than, to maintain it. ghor mathematics department: The according to the Washington Star, ‘ued at $20,000. “One third goes to ‘the widow and two-thirds go to each of the? children,”—Jacksonville . (Fla.) estate, “wa Times- Old age softens virility. Defiant when a younger man, in World War I, Marshal Leiain issued the injunction, “They shallg rot pass”, now in his senility he abjectly in- nis the Ger “Take what you want.” When he took over after the French defeat, ’ n ister said that he was too old to do justice to the job. nans, Last year, life insurance companie paid American families ave 397,000 a day— age of 1925. ar which was twice the aver In other words, life insurance payments, each day, would have 7,000 automobiles, built 2,000 home rt capital bough et 31 700 businesses with a Multiply that by $2 699,905 0,090 each, 365 you have the immense 000, sum of eter New for the jein the European fich It Br Chronicle has ¢ United Sta lor out es to flat-footedly ish people, want you n this war on our side Not to vietory save us from defeat but to hel quickly.’ This 1 be ee but they y Ame jean our life! Over $100,000 000 material arrived safely ro. The shipment ves millions asked to see that the destination which can only fully with convoys. Corvoy shedding That must not come t war means the blood, pass | Germans SPONGERS SEE DESERTION A few months ago The Citizen mented editorially on the encouraging fact com- tha ynge fishermen were reporting their catches in much better condition than had with the blight ap- Leen the cace recently, parently gone. both we and the sponge fisher- the news uniformly de SECM. poke too seen, beeause all been men abot bad. it is unfortunate that at this time, with Iropping out from under he hour, the sponge fishermen and | bi should get the double-barrelled islative wallop of a measure adding a . large ‘part of their fought for ban sponges since has business aes and removir from the long addition to their bitter tax bill, many of the spongers are being left in the lurch by their fel- townspeople. If merchants and other citizens would join in, the spongers say. it would be possible to swing far more weight in their effort to stir up opposition to the pill in the legislature. ; The comment of one buyer that mer- charts should line up in helping. “because there won't be anything left of Key West if this bil} eces through” is, of course, an ex- agge opposition feel is true, however, that the an old one, and has been a very part of this city’s industrial sponge business is ant, the tax bill really will drive the vers out of busin and if the measure opening part of their grounds to divers is a menace to their future livelihood, they de- erve the cooperation of their neighbors in | protesting against the proposed laws. The county commission has protested before against proposed legislation affect- Morroe county—sometimes without much effect—but why not try it again? ing WESTMINSTER BOMBED Perhaps no outrage committed by the during the present war has aroused greater indignation in England end the British Empire than the recent bombing of Westminster Abbey in London, | which did serious damage to that historic edifice. The Palace of Westminster was begun by King Canute the Dane in the 11th cen- tury, and here the sovereigns of England held their court for 500 years. In the same century Edward the Confessor built a , magnificent church on the site of an ancient monastery nearby, which was the original building of what is now known West- minster Abbey. Here al) the English sovereigns the time of William the Conqueror as since have ‘been crowned, except Edward V and Ed- ward VIII, the former having been mur- ‘ dered upon his accession at the age of 13, | and the latter having abdicated, being crowned. neither During the recent bom- bardment a portion of the roof over the spot where the present king and queen were rowned was smashed in. The House of Commons met for 3800 years in the chapter house of the Abbey. During the centuries fires and demolitions destroyed several of the earlier portions of Westminster, and newer ores have Thirteen kings are buried iff the which also holds the bodies of many In the Poets’ Dryden, Gray, Browning .and Britain's Un- known Warrior is also buried here in soil brought from France. In the same raid in which Westminster Abbey was damaged, portions of the Par- building, the British Museum and her prominent structures bombed, id the famous clock, Big Ben, been erected Abbey, of England’s greatest men. Corner lie Chaucer, Spenser, Ternyson. ment were was tem- e4-DAY AERIAL BATTLE r Ministry eighty-fo has given an ir may bat- premacy over the Bri n Isles Ht of 1939 According to the figures of the Battle of Brit nes in the eight A. F., in it 5 pilots killed and 358 wounded While s defense, is slow of the the world to re vic defense ir Force was responsible for democratic The failure of Gern pee tion of ywhere btec control ade England aerial attempt tc re undou vented ar THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Weather Note: Clear Drive Safely IL CANT HELP (Tt, BUT T HATCH Accident the sun shines” farmers, since fine produces a bumper crop because drivers “hey-hey” when it’s make too much the sun shines! At any rate, almost 86 per cent of all fatal motor crashes in 1940 | cecurred when the weather was clear. Only 2.1 per cent occurred during fog, 2.4 r cent during snow and 97 per cent when it was raining These pertinent facts vealed in a booklet entitled “Here Today—” just published by The Travelers Insurance Com- are re- analysts have about decided that “making hay while applies as much to garage repairmen as it does to weather al- of r) 35.8% CLEAR WEATHER OR SNOW pan: nual 1 tins issued in the interest street and highway safety. The figures indicate that clear weather encourages speedi ing and le ; nditions produce nw minor mishaps, but fatal and serious injuries are relat: infrequent. et attest ct ee te Economic Highlights HAPPENINGS THAT AFFECT THE DINNER PAILS, DIVIBEND CHECKS AND TAX BILLS OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL; NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS INSEPARABLE FROM LOCAL WELFARE May, 1 40, menth in the history of the mod- ern world. Early in that month ine German blitzkrieg was turn- ed loose in full fury on,the Low Countries. An army and. air force which had been the prin- cipal topic of conversation in European chancellories for years, but which had never been tested, came into action at ast. The much-vaunted defenses of Bel- gium and Holland crumpled like 50 mucn paper before the great- est war machine the world — had known. The war was on in nest, and Hitler's Third Reich away to a commanding was an important was a tremend- country. President ing to the Con- an arms pro- duction program whic wou'd make American defenses *in- vulnerable, and our security ab- solute. He then asked that slightly more than $1,000,090,005 be appropriated as a starter. So, the rearmament drive is a more than one year old. It s a drive which began in an atmosphere of intense enthus- iasm, tremendous confidence. It was a drive which shortly after bogged down to the point where many almost succumbed to hope- less despair. It was a drive which then picked up, as indus- try managed to sear itself to war production after deeades of ». What are its fruits to- , called for peo dav Judged by World War I stand- ards, we are doing well. W e committed ourselv to 900,000,000—our — entire exnenss in the previous w $22,000,000,000. We produc- i far more planes, tanks and i pieces than we produced Our tr men has gone er. But- ts a very differ World War I ir was are then ning prograr ahead much fast nd War matter thar ler t chang the best ex uld be doing wastefully aircraft, wt by government the won nition t t-expanding and per There were 27 com- in May, 1941— were five in| May, 1940. Some progress has been made toward developing mechanized and armored divisions, none of which existed a year ago. But again equipment shortages are making it necessary to revise the previous estimates down- ward. The navy is probably in better shape than ever in its history, one reason being that it was given much money during peace- time when the army was given berely enough for subsistence. But it will be 1945 or 1946 be- we have a powerful two- fleet with men and offi- ned to handle it. No has yet been able to find a to materially shorten the it.takes to build fighting looks good. plete divisions there time craft Summing up, we ‘are going ahead, but we are not going ahead as fast as the experts think is both necessary and possible. There is criticism of the Presi- dent for being indecisive, and for refusing to fire incompetent as- sistants. There is criticism of in- dustry for not adapting _ itself readily to a war basis. There is criticism of the public at large for not realizing how deadly se- rious our position is in a world largely dominated by the Axis and producing for the Axis, Al- most all who have been watch- ing the course of the defense drive seem convinced that there must be Severe shake-ups—and that this country must swiftly turn its ambitious plans into the actual machines of warfare if it is to be secure. In the light of history, there is no excuse for failure And Hitler has shown what honne to nation which do too little, and do it too vs ns Tadav’s Pirthdavs Housing eae York, 52 years ago. Joseph C brother of the { Justices, bo To caltnn.: 66 6 ‘Try “Rub-My-Tiem"—e Weedertal Lintment ober POROPS TUESDAY, MAY 27, iby Leoms 6 at __ a» WA SEUNGION By HUGO S. SIMS. Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen IHINK U.S. IS DIVIDED JAPANESE THREAT FRANCE JOINS NAZIS. J.S. INTERESTS” There scm 1s to be no reason to disbelieve reports from abroad that news of strikes in this coun- try, together with reports of speeches made by former Presi- dent Hoover, and prominent Isolationists, have produced an impression that the United States is seriously divid- ed and that the Government is unbale to function effectively in; the presence of world disorder. atches from Europe make it r that the Vichy Government R undobutedly influ- »v its impression that the ited States was virtually im- potent, and Tokyo newspapers stress labor troubles in this country. Tt is unfortunate thavattivities permitted in this cOuNtepys! be- cause we’ continue to ‘be! a’ demo- cratic people, are misinterpreted abroad. This is one of the penal- ties of democracy. It will be more than unfortunate, however, if the Japanese, for example, _ initiate agerescive ac‘ion in the Far East under the delusion that the United States is incapable of se- curing national unity to promote effective action. Most observers report that Ja- pan is extremely anxious to avoid hostilities with the United States. This does not mean that the Tokyo statesmen will not take sks in order to feel out the United States and thus secure all possible concession without hostilities. Some newspapers in Tokyo declare the entry of the TInited States into the European War will implement ' decisions already reached by the Japanese Colonel Lindbergh } Government and one insists that if thissecountry adopts a convoy system, it “will have to take into it the-vigilance of the Jap- anese Navy”. The rapprochement which is evident between France and Nazi Germany -raises an aatemstng question in the United St where this country must decide what steps it should take to pre- vent Hitler, through domination and control of the Vichy Gov- ernment, from acquiring bases for possible use against the West- ern Hemisphere. French possessions close to the Americas inelude the islands of St. Pierre and Michelon, near Newfoundland, and Martinique in the Caribbean. In addition, French Guiana in South America is a problem. Dakar, on the west coast of Africa, because of its close proximity to South Ameri- can countries, would be danger- ous if cecupied by the Nazis as a’ war base, Azores, strategic islands close to Errope, could become a perilous threat to the safety of shipping in the North Atlantic. The French, insist, and it is re- ported that Marshal Petain has given assurances to Ambassador Leahy, that African territory will not be used as Axis bases for any sort off action against Britain or the United States. These assurances, however, fail to carry conviction, in view of the fact that the Germans have been permitted to use Syria. The Vichy Government, help- less under German pressure, might vield these important areas in the future and thus permit Germany with her great aerial strength to break through the blockade and take the offensive, or, at least. threaten the vital interests of the United States. “Sitting In With The Lawmakers” __By GILBERT LEACH _ These boys are going home with fear and trembling. Every- boly told ‘em if they put an ex- tra $5.00 on an automobile tag they'd just as well plan not to run again and a lot of ‘em still believe it. I don't. It was ei- ther that or a sales tax and that’s the scariest thing there is any- where around the Capitol. At that, they mav have to come to the sales tax before they go home. The way the governor told it. it looked like they might get by but thines have a way of shrinking in the wash and some of his program already has shrtnk a little. There may not be auite as much money avail- able as it looked like there might a few weeks ago. Then there's another shgle Suppose we cet into this war be- tween now and the next session of the lesislature and thev ra- tion us on gasoline! What will be- come of the #9s tax that we de- pend upon so heavily? ‘Seribus: argo yyy ask; 4, be minded members inv that question ‘ime is getting short. You just. got. to on something vor ‘stav put” and it's t » loom up a grave pe sibility the sales tax on all ci ommolities is all there is avail- are begin- around up here. t looked like to help the and the blind went on and thes bobbed up the old red thev were about glected. Thev have had s so stirred up by the ade the cam- something t ning to send the Capitol But gettine back to the auto That was a scene the coin’ quately vou have to ggrt gp inte rhaeaay: For, Se LeU. darts Amend- durin expect before uu can ment afte A couple that nocent were a before the whi Drumm amen r ooked utterly in- ywed to go thru the steam Senator ) steam. “Key West's LA CONCHA HOTEL Beant iful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow ~-om end Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Strictly Fireproof Garage OPEN THE YEAR AROUND From then on the amendments of Senator Horne and Drummond were voted down as fast as they appeared—and they appeared fast. Finally, Senator Kanner Slipped out and got.a big book and came back and told them even the two amendments they had let go thru were not at all necessary ‘and would make the bill go to conference, so they backed up the steam roller and flattened out both those. There wouldn’t have been much humorous stuff around the Capitol the past week except for the night the attaches held their session and “took off” the mem- bers of the ‘Howse. There are not as manv attaches this session by half but they had the talent and they razzed some ‘of the members to a fire-you-well. I could have given the attaches somg tips they don’t know about but thesfetlows-might come back next “go might I-end they’ we out, so. I » kept still “Senator Pat’ Whitaker of ‘Tam: Leiba “Moonset The Portuguese ' U. S. WEATHER BUREAU REPORT, Observation taken at -7:30 a. 75th Mer. Time (city office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night Mean Normal m., ‘Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending’ 7:30 a. m., inches Total rainfall since May 1, inches es ae Deficiency since May 1, inches Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches since inches 0.14 2.88 23.81 January 1, 1481 Wind Direction and Velocity E—17 miles per hour Relative Humidity 74% Barometer at 7:30 a. m., today Sea level, 30.10 (1019.3 millibars) Tomorrow's Almanec Sunrise 5:38 a. m. Sunset 7:11, p. m. Moonrise 7:41 a.m, 9:17 p.m. Tomorrow's Tides (‘aval Base) AM. 10:36 4:10 FORECAST (Until 7:30 P. M, Wednesday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy and continued warm to- night and Wednesday; moderate to fresh sovtheasterly winds. Florida: Partly cloudy and con- tinued warm tonight and Wednes- day. Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate south- easterly winds, fresh in the Straits; partly cloudy weather to- night and Wednesday. CONDITIONS Showers and ‘thunderstorms have occurred since yesterday morning throughout the northern Rocky Mountain States, and east- ward over much of the Lake re- gion to northern New England, with heavy rain in portions of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa. There have also been light showers in the lower Rio Grande Valley, and western Ark- ansas, and scattered rains, mostly light, in the northern portion of the Pecific States. Dry weather continues from the middle and lower Mississipvi Valley eastward to the Atlantic coast. with tem- reratures abnormally hieh in many localities; while readings are generally seasonable over western districts. G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. P.M. High Low 5:31 pa—avowed foe of the newspa- pers, especially those published at Tampa—got off a good one when there was a bill up to ex- empt certain people from jury dutv. 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