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THE KEY WEST CITY CITIZEN THE CITIZEN P Published Daily Except L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publiher JOE ALLEN, Basiness Manager From The Citizen buud Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Ne per in Key West and Monroe County Florida, as second class matter Member of the Asiociated Prean Aare ai Ros West, ged Press it vely entitled to use dispatehos credited to | @therwise credited in this paper and also jon of all ne torn ML newa published here, $10.00 5.00 2.50 85 20 ADVERTISING ade*Known on application RA’ PE vending notice obituary notices, « AL NOT s, cards of thant te, '¥ au resolutions of Frese il be charged for at wm) 10 cents a line Notices for entertainment by churches from which revenu®'Is to be derived cre The Gytizen 1s an open forum and on of*publie issues and subjects of lo tbut it will not publish 5 cents a line ites discus- 1 or general anonymous communi- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Conaolidetion of County and City Gov- | crnments. A Modern City Hospital. One thing that can be said for our enemies is that they do not pester us with foolish advice. You might be amazed at the results of a classified advertisement placed in the columns of The Citizen at a trifling cost. There is Citizen unles: chand fools. no you have sell our use to The mer- are no in up-to-date readers, They advertise When dictators unite to plunder free peoples, it is time for free peoples, every- where, to make common cause in thir own interests and safety. To be a good American it isn’t neces- saryto proclaim it from the house-tops; that ‘is demonstrated by your actions and actions speak louder than words, Thanksgiving, 1942, will be Old Style unlegs the governors of some States insist upon heine they not felish the idea of being given th arouhd, lifferent, or because do rl changed tho to “com- iested t The governmént has measjing of the word ‘ If certain news ‘reque: mand newspapers are req , they even omit item better do it ! ela And we're not in the war, or are we? I England, »pagandize us into the and sut In World War sent ove to pre war for which America gaves tance. Now the with Lord Halifay He, Maynard Tord Balfour lives re technic i the not having succee the Er so we ma Keynes nt ner The widow of t deen went on the ¢ ring remark and Washing bout her dead hi charac our national olumns are the most »wspaper readers, and it entary on the ethics of jour nder to the wishes of their ing such tripe,—Sanford The other day this \ eof Indiana, »-story, 10-room } 1 Now at at Grand Prai i four-roc he It isn ak accomp! On the red an fre testy ter the th. pa *¥d the work TC AN OCALA MAYOR to: do government Two news stories having the relations between federal subdivisions of that government ers this week. , the le gislature approved a with expenses, to main- znt lobby in Washington s be assured.of gett, money to be spent in national: 006-a-yeal tain a peim chance at any ense. In the other, an Ocala mayor urged his city council to give the government scrap aluminum owned by the city, instead of sell- “T think the people of this country slack as to what is going on,” ing it. are just a little he said We complain of the mi. constantly of the high nending of money ults commensurate the com- not con- cities, con- ites can you think make every ederal taxes, o long as and does cern us. counties, onal districts that 1owever do not pos- ort to rab every cent they can from the government? not only means Jost money, the, money ring The result but it means wa that is spent. Army camps, good example. The politicie camp in his future, There’s money for cats in the camp building program, and more money in army Which is ':0 reason the army for‘years has been attered in little posts all over the nation. Why would it be impossible for the politiciars to tell the army, “You people aie soldiers and you should know where you Put them where they do ted effort for for instance, ANS | ar @oniec heme pocket has an as- his con- in who ¢ payrolls. want your camps. the most good.”’? R and harbors bills are notorious pork barrels. So hundreds have died each year along the banks of flooding rivers, be- cause other politicians will not vote for the needed money unless they can carry at least a little home, where it may or may not be needed. Ore of the greatest of the grabs Vlorida’s delewation to the capita] multi-milion dollar trans-state ship canal, which Senators Pepper and Andrews are to bring home now. After spending $5,000,000 on the big ditch, the > back for more, and strangely it’s 2 grab most of their own con- don’t want. C. Izlar is the name of the Ocala He probably won't go far in poli- due the ers for is attempting boys ¢ enough stituents mayor. ties, but he deserves the credit prophet of a lost cause. MORE - AUTO THEFTS An ricreasinin nuniber of automobile thefts are being reported from states, and a timely warning was recently giver car owners by J. F. Brawner, director the Alabama department of public safety, who disclosed that not long ago his office received reports of eight cars within a period of 17 hours, He recommends that when wcar‘isieft ding for even the shortest’ téngth’ time, the driver should not only remove the but lock the car doors also, in several of ignition key to be Whe ear thief rder safe, ar is stolen by a professional hich there are many, the very wrted to a sheriff chief of hief usually sells the car to a len it is sel- inless loss is or goods, who immediately ind all identification marks appearance is altered difficult it ation if not im local e companie s making the al thief less easy, bu th of insurar operation opera- ession t = > > who take cars merely order to Make } a BSR another away w rmitting them crime where they ca these often wreck or de e car while and Ic eking th avoid annoy- new issues of stamps rnment, you will heip but not least. you will be with | the | | eS ee a | The Faithfal Robert#icEmber soa as igen ist=tis tempt tin a ee * o Ge BOB 4 MéEmBer “SARA ELLEN MOBLEY WINS FIRST PRIZE IN PRESS CLUB CONTEST is the y Ellen Mobley son student. which took prize in a recent Stetson Club feature contest: “Stetscn’s candidate for the title’of ‘the little man who wasn't here’ could silv be the fe! hi: ly mus dozen on the Hulley tower chimes t the Universi'y His right to the distinction rests on the fact r appreciative as vb to the lad up in the tower ringing the carillon of eleven tuneful bells. The faithful ‘yehudi’, upon in- was found to be Rob- 2 junior music stu- ngton, Michigan shoulders rests the nearly seven chimes following y Sart r of the not-too-mod- 1 mechanism. A complicated »m of ’rods and leather straps, il of whieh must be strengthen- ed from’time to time, bridges the nundred-foct space from the key- board to the bells. quests for tunes are quite an everyday occurrence, accord- ing to Bob, with Stephen Foster melodies‘and ‘Happy Birthday’ the most’ popular and repeated ‘ requ Whenever a professor celebrates a birthday, the campus chimestet*tries to remember it with 2 Sppy Birthday’ sere- s the price of send- and does as well for re heard nearly all who doe: stor “Another idiosyncrasy, he con- d, is to stick his head out of tower window and listen to chimes on the courthouse clock ring out the morning and evening half-hour, about a half- x who mile eway. As the last note attended vesr at Stetson and sounds, he'takes up the chorus were presen a tribute to «» the Eloise chimes. ‘It can be the late presi Dr. Lincoln done very\easily on cold winter Hulley. rr hen the air is clear’, “Bob plays the carillon “tfé he commented, ‘but when the first flight up’ in the tower, weather is hot and muggy, the wh manual of levers acts on n't carry’. a spring. The spring, in turn, gh Bob’s identity is sets the clapper in swinging mo- peal of the bells as tion, while the bell remains sta- out over the campus ary. He stands before a key- ek-day morning at 7:30, of levers arranged in the t 6:30 every night, there’s D to perform his musical y a towrfsperson or student gymnastics. The bell-ringing I believe, who ics in the truest sense the hand for a _ considerabl ) plays way the th Hulley th they of the people ‘E th in the y ring is of wouldn't lik ke of ‘the little man w off i By HUGO'S. SPMS. Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen "HULL SPEAKS OUT trol of SPAIN IS A PROBLEM AFFECTS SOUTH AMERICA the Government has gone terms in The nd similar Marqu Americas for the * : thi fen- Bh 3 of Amer Marquis re- ei t . ar says that ne Axis ns with ‘KEY WEST IN WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1941 DAYS GONE BY. Happenings On This Date Ten’ Years Ago As Taken From “ 5 ‘Highest last 24 hours Files Of The Citizen |Lowest last night y SS en MERN 75th Mer. Time (city office) Temperatures Traffic will be moving over the | new boulevard bridge by Sunday, Precipitation unless, something ynforseen hap- ‘Rainfall, 24 hours ending spens to prevent it. i 7:30 a m., inches <._ Chairman Carl Bervaldi of the , Total rainfall since May 1, county commission said today the’ inches structure is practically complete | Deficiency and there issno reason why itj inches should not be in ‘use by the end / Total rainfall since “Jan, Ai, since baa 1, 77 85 81 80 0.00 0.14 3.02 [THE WEATHER Observation taken at 7:30 a. m.,:shower tonight and Thursday; in temperature; fresh easterly little change moderate to winds. Florida: Partly cloudy and con- tinued warm tonight and Thurs- Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate south- easterly winds, except fresh east- erly winds in ~ Florida Straits; partly cloudy weather tonight and Thursday, scattered showers in Florida Straits: of the week. Bervaldi said he would call a meeting of the commissioners be- fore Sunday to authorize the open- ing. Members of the Senior high scheol graduating class today were guests of honor at a Rotary club luncheon. The seniors were welcomed by j Allan B. Cleare, with a response by Robert Dopp, president of the | senicr class, who also introduced | each student. Armando Alfonso, mechanic, flew from the Pan American landing field in Miami to the landing field at Key West in two,hours and 10 minutes yes- terday in a plane he constructed himself. With a wing spread of 20 feet, fuselage.of 15 feet, a four foot propeller;.and a Meath engine, the plane, a single ter, looks like those seen re- cently in the picture, “Just Imagine.” Federal government engineers are studying the feasibility of reuting a branch of the Pan- American Highway through Key Vest, Cuba and Yucatan, it was learned todav in a letter from! Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde to The Citizen. Espousal of the eastern route’s case by Secretary Hyde is ex- | rected to have a marked effect on the success of efforts to line up support for the plan among Flor- ida leaders. protest against the itchell by Sommer- feld in the first East Coast League game here has been sustained and the game will be nlayed over. League officials in Miami! agreed to protest after it was proved Mitchell‘ had not yet re- ceived his release from Home- stead. The Citizen, editorial, said: “Wjhether local spongers may or may not sponge in Sugarloaf Sound is not so important a ques- tion as is the matter of having a state board set at naught action of the legislature. “The internal board is a creature of the people. It gets whatever authority andj; powers it mav possess from the voters. To assume, therefore, that it has a right to go over the head of the legislature, which rep- in an resent: the people, in the sponge |‘ other, is absurd. And while the Sugarloaf Sound question is of local importance, the board’s action in attempting to nullify legislative action is a auestion in which the whole state should be vitally interested.” “Miss Dorothy. Roberts, daugh- ter af Mr. and Mrs. A. R, Roberts, formerly of this citv, but now Yésitients of Delray Beach, was married Tuesday to Daniel Chalky Delray Beach, it was learned matter or anv er today Mora, an- and Mrs. MeCurdv United street, have {the birth of an girl this morning. Barbara was named Totalita statement, Hit- the right to ational and in- cies since 1938 moved twelve ready to act auspicious tion as rding to his been & ternat and Germa r ha: en jin irec n Moroc time t have no way of wing whether the statements arquis are correct quite possible that Spain as a front r ies in this ohere The Falangistas been active in Spain where he party occupies a position of nsiderable power The ancient tionship be. en Spain and her colonies in recall- been sugges- proper time, assume the leader- people in South ¢ we pass the in- Y for what it is vssumption is that ment and Amert- are cognizant tyation and, being fore- to handle re hemisphere has been have automobile | four-cylinder j improvement |; eight- | CONDITIONS 2 ‘ Showers and_ thunderstorms a; have occurred during the last 24 hours from the north Pacific coast eastward over the northern tier of States to the north At- lantic coast, and in scattered 15 localities in the Plains, southern | eaometer at 7:50 a) mm t0dsy | ocicy Mountain, and West Gulf Sea level, 30.12 (1020.0 millibars) | f Smaccew's Mises 1States, and lower Mississippi alley, with heavy rain in por- eerie |tions of New York States, north- ern Michigan, and Louisiana. Dry weather — still continues over southeastern sections, with |day temperatures —_ yesterday PM | ranging from 90° to 98° in many localities; while over western ricts readings are generally onable. inches Excess inches , Wind Direction and Velocity \ E—15 miles per hour Relative Humidity since January 5:37 a. m. 7:11 p. m. Moonrise 8:32 a. m. Moonset 10:03 p. m. Tomorrow's Tides Geaval Base) AM. 12:14 11:10° iow 4:44 \ FORECAST (Tili 7:30 p. m., Thursday) | Key West and Vicinity: Partly {| cloudy, possibly an occasional LEGALS ‘IN THE COURT OF cH JUDGE, MONR: FLORIDA. | Sunset | High G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS (1933 Probate Act, Sees. 119, 120) j 1941 will be a banner travel year. Let your Florida Motor Lines and Grayhound agent plan your summer trip for you now. Transpor- tation, hotels, sightseeing all arranged in- advance, saving time and money, Avoid disappointments and receive better ac- commodations af your favorite vacation spot, Phone, write or call the Florida Motor Lines travel bureau. BUS STATION Cor. Southard and Bahama Sts. PHONE 242 te} RIN pURT OF THE TRY IT TODAY— ptt The Favorite in Key West STAR » BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS HOTEL LINCOLN 44°10 45" STE.a7 oO ANT. OUR CHOICEST ROOMS From 1400 ROOMS each with Bath, Servidor, ond we © Four fine reste awarded Grand Pra yy epatinen an Exhibition, MARIA KRAMER asad John t Horgan Gen Mgr. WOTEL Dry To All Creditors and Persons Hav- ing ms or | Said Estate: You and each of yeu are hereby | notified and required to present | any claims and demands which you, lor either of you, may have against ithe estate of H. O. Penick, deceased, late of said County, to the County Judge of Monroe County, Florida, at |his office in the court house of said Florida, with- ths from the time of the first publication of this | notioe h claim or demand shall be in writing, and shall state th place of residence and post address of the clalmant, by the claimant, attorney, and any such and not 80 filed shall be HAML! Est Temands Against | jalaim or de | void. ROY As Administrator of the H. ©. Penick, deceased, may7-14-21-28,1941 law THE CMC | ELEVENTH Jt i | OF THE STATE OF FL INA FOR MONROK 1 IN HAN ROY ALONZ i mplainant, ivore R JULIA DOROTHY SMTi, Defendant. ORDER OF PUBLICATION It appearing by the sworn bill of complaint filed in the above stated cause, that Julia Dorothy Smith, th defendant therein named is a non- resident of the State of Florida and jher place of resi as is par- | teularly known = 56th Street, ew York, N. Y That said - ndant is over t t j the Stal a Summons in Chancery upon whom woula bind said defendant It is hereby Ordered that said fendant, Julia Dorothy Smith, and she Is hereby required to app to the Bill of Complaint filed in said se on or before the 14th day of e, A. D. 1941, otherwise the al- legations of said bill will be taken as confessed by said defendant and be proceeded with ex parte It is further Ordered that this or- der be published once cach week for {four consecutive weeks in The Key West Citizen, a newspaper pub- lished in Key West, Monroe County Florida. |. Tone and Ordered at Me rida, Key this West, May (Bd.) Rose © Sawyer | Clerk Circuit Court. | RAYMOND R. LORD, } Solleitor for Complainant may14-#1-28; Juned-11,1941 j Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. 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