The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 23, 1943, Page 2

PAGETWO — The Key N West Citizen TH LISHING CO. INC. Publis! ly, Except Sunday, by L. P, ARTMAN, Owner and Publisher Corner Green d Ann Streets % Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ‘tered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS / lated Press is exclusively entitled to use for repp tige all news dispatches credited to it or not rWise-credited in this paper and also-the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION Rs'TES Th ! Weekly. a j ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. 4 SPECIAL NOTICE Allgkeading notices, cards of thanks, resolutioss of respect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at the of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which ® revepue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. tore Citizen: is an: open forum and invites discus: sion interes cations, ©. NATIONAL €DITORIAL_ s ublic issues and subjects of local or general but it will not publish anonymous communi- * r a were HO TA Dee a at wiiout, fear ‘without“favor; never’ be atfaid to attack wrong or to applaud right; slWpys fight for progress; never be the or- for the mouthpiece of any person, clique, fadtion or class; always do its utmost for the welfare; never tolerate corruption or injyistice; denounce vice and, praise: virtue, good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the Treader; never com- premise with principle. | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST f, ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. (Water and Sewerage, ition of County ‘and City Gov- (i I CLEANING UP DUVAL Rogelio ‘Gomez tells of alleged condi- tions at a night club on Duval street that are so revolting a newspaper could be bar- red from the mail and prosecuted for inde- cency if it published them. Councilman Carbonell] advocates the been granted to establishments.,on. Duval street, There you have the two extremes: asserting there are altogether too many saloons and and teo many night clubs on our main thoroughfare. But all the ‘blame } for their being there should not be placed on the City Council alone. Indeed, the County Commission is just as much to blame, if not a little more so, than what the city council is, for the.latter can not grant a liquor license until the commission has si- sued one. Hence the blame for the disgrace- ful conditions at some points along Duval street falls on the commissioners as well as on the councilmen. Further, the commissioners, proceeding through the State Beverage Department, also can revoke liquor licenses, as was done has been given The ‘ itizen, the former joint on Stock Island was pot one whit worse than a'place on Duval street that has been ‘| brought to The Citizen’s attention. And that is not the only place on Du- val street that shows no respect for wo- manhood. Men, in civilian as well as in ser- vice clothes, in every degree of drunkenness, | from the glib-and-foul-tongue stage to the stage of “sleeping it off,” may be seen and, | in the cases of most of them, heard too, on Duval street every night. Mr. Carbonell, some months ago, clom- | ored for the closing of every gambling house in Key West; he advocated that the “lid” be slammed down and kept down, but the only thing that went the downward path was the movement to stamp out gambling. Let us hope that a similar condition will not come t6 pass in his advocacy to make the parts of Duyal street in question just as de- centias anywhere else in Key West. And not only all.the other members of the council 3 ernments. 3 6. Modern City Hokpital 3°" - ‘ ‘ * < - RUBBER RUMORS Nothing is more persistent than a war rumer. Recently there has been circulated the néport that the United States is getting a substantial share of:the crude rubber in Japap’s hands via Russia which: has been allowed to buy it by the Japs in order to re- tain fishing privileges off Kamchatka Peninsula. . “Washington officials declare that there is nothing to the story. The Russians depend | upon,the United States for a large part of | theirubber supply products, says William M. Jeffers, who adds that the Soviet de- man@is increasing and that the Russians havea mission in this country studying our prodiictién of synthetic rubber. PMr. Jeffers insists that the rubber shortage:in Russia and the United States is as agtte-as ever and will until synthetic Plants get, into full swing this?summer. THE FATE OF “MISS EARHART” r. —_— fThe suggestion that Amelia Earhart Putyim,,who disappeared on an equatorial fligf around the world in 1937, fell into the hands of Japanese is within the range of possibility. “The famous aviatrix was flying into the regien of the mandated islands, where ev- eryhédy suspected that Japan was con- strugting fortifications and where the ships | of other nations had been prohibited in dis- | regagd of treaty regulations. | “The facts of what occurred in the area | of tle mandated islands in the decade be- fore*the: attack on Pearl Harbor are not | available to the public, but the-Japanese | military authorities did not hesitate to for- bid foreigners from ng certain areas. “While the possibility exists that Miss Putfi§m fell into the hands of Japanese and was*tither kept captive or executed, the probability is that her death resulted from the hazards consequent to the long flight | she Undertook. | | } “There are millions of school children in the @nited States and we have never heard of ane who regretted the end of the school | ing the floating stationary types, the Navy | year. - Tes ecupaemer mane nd “The mil in areas surrounding the camps and trait:- ing schools, | not be relieved! should join him in the movement; the coun- | ty commissiéners should also take a hand in helping to.clean.up the sections of Duval street that need cleaning. There may come a time when adver- tising doesn’t pay, but it won’t be in The Citizen. So it’s the overhead that makes running the government so _ expensive! It’s been over our heads here in Key West for a long time. Herr Goering once pompously assured | the Germans that no bombs would fall upon the Reich; his rating as a prophet ought to be below par. The column has said it before and is | saying it again, that itis a good idea for those making big wages to save some for the proverbial rainy day which will come as | ‘ely as day is followed by night. . eu When war broke out in the Pacific ocean the United States Navy had no repair bases in the South Pacific and consequent- ly our ships had to wage war some six thou- sand miles from their bases, This disadvantage is being overcome by the construction of huge floating dry- docks, unlike anything that the world has seen before. Rear A'dmiral Ben Moreel, | Navy Engineering Chief, says that three, under construction, will handle battleships, lifting up to 100,000 tons. An ingenious design permits the con- struction of the drydocks in sections, each a complete unit. Ten sections will take of a battleship, seven handle h the lesser units can be assembled fo: er ships. Floating mach pair drydoek had to be dis rded because it was too large to go through the Panama Canal locks. Then the sectional type was devised, with each section having living space for the crews. Each section can be towed and self propulsion machinery can be added if priorities permit. With 183 new docks planned, includ- the case of the, Hprse and Cow on Stotk | wen sland, And, judging fégm information that, PRYDOCK FOLD WS BATTLESHIPS - * ——_ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN American Peopie Face | | | | | | i | The Nation Dare Not Their Lives—YouL acid test this month when the lars' to High Government officials have¢ pointed out that the nation must not fail in this duty to our men on the battle fronts who are now carrying the offensive to the enemy at every stage. It is obvious to every thinking man and woman that as the United Nations take this offensive against the dictators, the cost of war opera- tions inereases in proportion. The American people must no longer think of war costs in terms of equipping a soldier, building a tank or plane or a ship. We must now think in terms of the cost of bat- tles, invasions and new offensives. Attacking armies cost more money ‘equipping that army and we dust meet that increased. cost.by buying more War Bonds and Second War Loan Securities. {. [They Give Their Lives. | at ts not only necessary that the | American people left here at home assume this additional participation in the war effort—it is an honor to do so . . . for we here at home can do no less than attempt to approach the sacrifices of our brave men out on the fighting fronts to whom the last great measure of sacrifice is but a daily offering. They give their | lives . . . we are asked only to lend our money. | And that is the theme of the Sec- ond War Loan, “They Give Their | Lives—You Lend Your Money.” | Financial experts who know mone- | tary conditions in the nation point | out that at the present time there is | in liquid funds, cash and commer- | elal bank deposits over and above | taxes and present investment in | Government Bonds. and over and Acid Test in Treasury's 2nd War Loan To Raise 13 Billion Dollars in Three Weeks Fail in This Greatest Financing Task in History—“They Give end Your Money.” Washington, D. C.—Coming as it does upon the heels of income tax payments, the people of America will face an Treasury’s Second War Loan drive pens April 12 with an objective of thirteen billion dol- raised through sale of Government securities. __ A substantial part of this huge financing, the most stu- pehdous ever undertaken by any government in the world’s history, must be loaned by people in ordinary walks of life. above what can be bought this year because of restrictions and ration- ing . . . approximately 40 billions of dollars which should go into Gov- ernment Bonds. It should be the objective of every American to invest these loose dol- lars, idle dollars, in Government se- curities, not only from a patriotic standpoint, but from the standpoint of their own financial security. There is available during the Second War Loan a type of Security to fit, every pocketbook. Are Wild Dollars Every dollar of these forty billions of dollars available, which is not in- vested .in. Government securities during this Wer Loan Drive is a “wild” dollar which, together with its mates, will tend to inprease infla- tion. Uncontrolled inflation might raise the cost of living to a point where the dollar is worthless. It can happen. It happened in Ger- many after the last war when the price of a loaf of bread cost more than an annual wage. Invested in Government securi- ties, your dollar will work for you. It will hold down inflation because it is harnessed in war work; it will help buy food, transportation, munitions for our boys on the front lines and it will be earning interest that, to- gether with your original loan, will come back fo you later to help you buy the things you cannot buy today . . « to insure your peace of the future. Remember those boys out there + in Tunisia . . . in the South ‘acific . . . They give their lives— You lend your money. KEY WEST IN | FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN | OF APRIL. 23. 1933 | Amember of the yacht Gulf| | Spray, which docked at Porter's | wharf last night, lost a watch ov- |erboard, and this morning, Wil- | liam Wickers, after a series of dives, succeeded in recovering the. | watch. | Joseph Sanchez, of the firm} | owning and operating the Star | Coffee Mills, underwent an opera-; tion in Tampa yesterday, and, ac-} | cording to advices received here, | the operation was successful. i | PoE i Julius Augustus. Weatherford, | 84, died yesterday in his home at |Caroline and Elizabeth streets. | Puneral services are being held; | this afternoon in St. Paul’s Epis- | | copal Church. were paid today | fyi Unemploy-' cil. ‘More | SBhilip Merwin SWaEaBpdicd | | home at 419 United street, follow- ing a long illness. Funeral ser-} vices will be held at 5 o'clock to-/} morrow afternoon in the chapel of the Lopez Funerai Home. | The concluding event in connec- | | tion with the exercises commem-| orating the centennary of St. | Paul’s Episcopal Church was held | Saturday evening in the Parish Hall, when the members of the | vestry entertained the Rt. Rev.! | John D. Wing, who came to Key | West to participate in the anni- { versary observance. | | ie My. and Mrs. Everett Albury, | | whe had been visiting the latter’s brother-in-law and sister, Lieu- | fenant and Mrs. R. H. Phillips, at} bo age Island, S. C., returned! | gomie yesterday. j 4 Bae 34 « My. and Mrs, Warren Niles and $on,, Warren, Jr., who had been} in Key West visiting relatives, re-) turned yesterday to their home in | Miami. | C.H. Gardner, retired light-| |house keeper at Cedar Keys, ar-| | rived on the steamship Florida this morning to visit his daugh-/| jte,r Mrs. Maude McKillip. | } | } Jonathan Cates left on the! DAYS GONE BY 10°15 o’clock last night im his} Today In History 1635—Boston Public Latin, gountry’s oldest public schogl, founded. 1778.—John Paul Jones, carry- war to England itself, enters harbor ef Whitehaven, and fires several ships. 1838.—Stemers “Sirius” and “Great Western,” first transatlan- tic steamers on regular run, arrive New York on same day. 1896.—Edison’s sented as last act on Broadway, N. Y.. vaudeville bill—birth of the movies. 1898.—Pres. McKinley calls for | 125.000 volunteers for war with Spain. 1918.—(25_ years ago) British block harbors of Zecbrugge and Ostend. 1941—Greek army surrenders and Greek king flees country. 1941—Lindbergh addresses ficst i than | meeting of America First Commit- eYork: “British, .<per-| ‘tee in suade us,” ete. a Today’s Birthdays Rear Admira El M. Pace, Jr., born in Texas, 52 years ago . Shirley Temple, Santa Monica, Cal. actress, born 15 years ago. Edwin C. Hill. radio commenta- tor and author, born Aurora, Ind., 59 years ago. Charles G. Norris of Cal., novel- ist, born Chicago, 62 years ago. Prof. Yandell Henderson of Yale, physiologist emeritus, born Louisville, Ky.. 70 years ago. Leon S. Head, president of Rail- way. Express, New York, born Milner, Ga., 64 years ago. Francis H. Taylor, director, New York’s Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art, born Philadelphia, 46 years ago. The Militant, a weekly paper, is barred from the mails. | home in Miami, accompanied by 925 Whitehead—Opp, Lighthouse Mrs Cooper, Today The Citizen says in an editorial paragraph: expects to have facilities wherever the fleet |steamship Florida for Tampa,| “On the way down to the office ' the “cheapest and quickest way to build a Who had been visiting Mrs. Dan- ship is to repair one already built.” | } i | Mrs. Raul Daniels and baby, \iels’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. | Cooper, left yesterday for their | happens to need them. The program in- | Where he intends to remain sev-| this morning, the writer was hail- itary training of young men | volves an exepnditure of more than $500,- SOL SATE Ae & Dotine’ trip. has solyed the beau-problem for many girls | 000,000 but as Admiral Moreel points out,.| ed by an urchin with the laconic and unabashed interrogation: ‘Hey, have you got a nickle, mis- ter; I'm poor?’ He said it with an air of distinction. as if he was in}, a class by himself.” Vitascope pre- | Today’s | Anniversaries 1564.—William Shakespeare, lit- jeary genius, born. Died April 23, 1616. } 1791—James Buchanan, Pa. law-| | yer, congressman, i. socre- | tary of state, 15th Pri born | |near Méseersbung, PasDied Lan- | caster, Pas, oe - Boog i 1813 Sepa ‘A. Douglas, Ili- | nois senator, erator, Lincoln's op- | ponent,” Brandon, Vt. Died {June 3, 1861. { | 1834.—Chauncey M. Depew, |New York lawyer, senator, wit.! |railway head, born Peekskill, N. Y¥. Died April 5, 1928. Siatiantennaiae 1 |. 1852.—Edwin Markham, poet, | | bern Oregon City, Orgeon. Died! Mar. 7. 1941, ! | 1856—Arthur Hadiey, noted! Yale economist-president, born j Ne wHaven, Conn. Died March 6, | 1930. H stata teeesicteiar GREA’ CIRCUMFERENCE er eh { NEW YORK.—The circumfer-| | ence of China, eight thousand | | miles, is approximately equal to} the diameter of the earth. \ LEGALS | NOTICE OF INTE: | FOR Pas: | | i 1 TION TO APPLY | |for the passage of special or local | | legislation, the substance of which jis as follows: An Act relating to Everglades Drainage District, drainage dist ng under the laws | amending existing laws relative thereto and defining the purp scope of the District 1 powers and duties ame | and its Board of Com providing for water control and for draina : 5 ae tection and vati i lands within the Distric the conservation and } ment of the natural re ! aration and adoption of a com- | therei: providing for the prep- j prehensive plan of reclamation: fixing and determining the pow- er, authority, duties and com- j} pensation of the District's off cers and agents; fixing and | termining the amount of the ad_ | valorem tax and the purpose for | which the same may be used; (but no amendments, modifications or corr contemplated which = ter the boundaries of the i trict, rescue any of the lands in the District, or change amount of the Debt Ser ax | which the Board is authorized to levy and impose on the iands | {n the various zones); authoriz- | ing the issu; «© of refunding bonds; providing for the certi- fication and collection of taxes; fixing the compensation of Tax Assessors, Tax Collectors and Clerks of the Circuit Courts rela- tive to District taxes; defining and construing the terminology of laws relating to the District: | amending Chapter 14717, Laws | of Florida, Acts of 1931, Chapter | 16993, Laws of Florid 1935, Chapter 1790: { Florida, Acts of 1937 19278, Laws of 1939, Chapter Florida, Acts of 1941, Chapter 20682, Laws of Florida, Acts of 1941, and without limiting the kenerality of the foregoing p: ticularly Seetions One (1), (2), Four. (4), Five (5) (S), Nine Fifty-si | 20 | (83), and One bundred one (101) | of said Chapter 12717, as amend- ed, and Sections Three (3), Four (4) and Twelve (12) of said Chapter 20658, and repealing all laws in eoriflict therewith. aonee ei April 20,1943. i iM EVERGLADES oe pis, TRICT. ISSION) DRAINAGE DIS- By MARK R. TENNANT. irman. ——————_____ } apr23-It IN THE COUNTY 3) IN AND FOR MONROF | TY, FLORIDA. IN PROBATE. In re the Estate of EDNA H. MITCHELL, DEMANDS AGAINST THE ES- TATE OF EDNA-H. MITCHELL, | DECEASED: You, and each of you, are here-} by notified and required to pre- sent any claims or demands, which you, or either of you, may have against the estate of Edna H. Mitchell, deceased, late of Monroe! County, Florida, to the Honorable| Raymond R. Lord, County Judge, in and for Monroe County, Florida. | at his office in the County Court: House of Monroe County, Florida, | within eight, calendar months from the date of the first publication hereof. Said elaims or demands shall be in writing and contain the place of residence and post of-| fice address of the claimant and, shall. be sworn to by the claim- ent or attorney. claims and ‘demands not filed within the time and in the manner prescribed herein shall he void. ¥ Dated the 6th. day,of April, A.D.) 1943. i (S4.) MARTHA HARRIS, | | As administratrix of the estate of Edpa H. Mitchell, deceased, | apr9-16-23-30,1943 | { Phone 612-W LT ST TCS LOPEZ Paneral Service Established 1985 Licensed Funeral Directors end Embelmers 24-Hour Ambulance Service 135 NIGHT 690 | | By HUGO S. SIMS. Special Washington Correspondent of The Citise= THE JAPS SURPRISED MANILA OUR PLANES CAUCHT ON GROUND WE HESITATED TO FIGHT BACK The people States were so a founded when struck at Pearl seven thirty-five morning of December they have overlooked the events t u Philiz the were attacking our w Pearl Harbor it was fou five p.m. of December the Philippine Islands more than twenty fortresses and sc planes were ready two flying fie Despite the fact th the Honolulu attack had ed, there seems to & some confusion nila headquart permission to take Formosa, where his target These facts an article, “Queen: ly”, by W. LW Readers Digest, wii vation that althoug' had been attack clared war” and question whether Phili Command could ke technically war did not exist Actually, “when permission was refused,” the General “ ed to be allowed to make a re- connaisance flight, so he could a least see if the Japanese w making prparations us.” This, apparently proved by a nila, where Gene: the Commader-in charge. Unfortunately, just at the time that General Bereton got missiog from General Macé thur, the Japanese bombers rived, blasting the flying - tresses on Clark Field, after de stroying the P-40s on Ida Field The interesting revelation that pilots and aviators at Clark Field. were given “early at eleven o'clock, more th: hours after the attack Pearl Harbor, but the flying for-- DON'T tresses and the P-40s were om 2, Revista the ground when the Japanese Ingles. Mailed at arrived to make their attack ly on the 13th. Out of 23 flying fortresses on ogee sue Yours Clark Field, only five remained, “badly damaged”, but by pool- ing the wrecks, it was hoped to E F- salvage one or two planes. (Times Every American is familiar icam Review! with the condemnation and/ Havana. criticism that was launched 'M-IGI2. against the officers in command Hotel La at Honolulu but no such ava- lanche was directed toward the Philippines where our air force | Was caught on the ground more than six hours after the Pearl Harbor catastrophe. To a civilian, it is very hard J. F. SIKES there e w ‘ask Ht] Overseas T. Company, Inc. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service Between MIAMI AND KEY WEST \j Express Schedule: (NO STOPS EN ROUTE) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY CEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P. M Tives at Miami at 12:00 o'clock night. 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