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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12
AFTER MUNICIPAL AIRPORT

Several weeks ago army and civilian
airmen came TO Key West from Miami
and urged action by Key West in provid-
ing airport facilities at Key West. They
proposed location of an airport at some
point above the city, and tentatively sug-
gested Geigers Key for that purpose. A
committee was appointed and the idea
was discussed from every angle. So far
as the public was concerned, for there
were no further official announcements,
the airport idea seemed to die what is
usually natural death in Key West
Then the Key West Chamber of Com
merce decided to undergo an operation for
the installation of "a new set of active
glands. On the program that was adopted
a municipal airport appeared as one of the
projects the revived Chamber of Com
nerce promised to sponsor and actively
support. Everyone thought that it was
just another item in a program that would
soon be forgotten.
/ In that these skeptics were mistaken
The Chamber went right to work on the
program, and, fortunately, selected the
airport development project as No. l OBJ
jective. Headed by Chamber members, a
group of city, county and civic officials
last week examined sites for an airport on
Big Coppitt and other keys within hop
skip-and- jump from downtown Key West.
1t is believed plan will now be evolved
by local engineers for a Key West airport
capable of handling the largest military
and commercial airplanes in operation.
That's what Key West needs-AC-
TON. It is wise for the Chamber at this
time to swing into action at once, so that
the enthusiasm aroused by the recent sue
cessful membership campaign is not lost.
It is also wise to pick on project that no
other group, civic or public, is backing.
The water supply system from the main
land is being handled by the Florida Keys
Aqueduct Commission; extension of Over
seas Highway will be handled by the State
Road Department; the low-rental housing
project is going forward under guidance of
the Key West Housing Authority.
The Key West Airport Development
is an orphan. 1t needs father and a wet
nurse to bring it along to the stage where
the Monroe County Commission and the
Key West City Council may act to sponsor
a project calling for an adequate and vital
airport for this community.
To the Chamber of Commerce, con-
gratulations!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

Among the great unsolved riddles of
the world is why better coffee is made
from the same material in one country
than in another. Another puzzle is why
does the same kind of coffee taste so diff
ferently when brewed by different peo-
pie in the same community. It seems that
each coffee brewer puts his own per-
sonality in his brew, and the brewer who
hits most the popular taste makes the best
coffee A matter of taste, after all!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

anticipated. If commercial credits
are given Finland and China
through, the lmport-Export Bank,
tens of millions of dollars worth
of orders will flow into American
industry. We aren't experience
ing a war boom, but we are MAX
ing money out of the conflict.
Unfortunately, it seems to be the
verdict of history that we or
anyone else must pay through
the nose for such profits when
the war ends and the exhausted
participants must face the inn
mense task of rebuilding shat
tered economies.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

Senator Pepper recently joined the
"filibuster'' to side-track the Hatch anti
politics act. This is quite understandable
for if there had been a Hatch act during
his campaign for the United States
senatorship, it is just possible that he
would have been nosed out in the election.
President Roosevelt has endorsed the bill
and Majority Leader Barley of Kentucky
is conducting the fight for it. Entrenched
Politicians mostly are fighting the bill be-
CAUSE it is seen as measure to jeopardize
: their jobs
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage
2. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning).
8. More Hotels and Apartments
4. Beach and Bathing Pavilion.
5. Airports-Land and Sea.
6. Consolidation OF County and City Gov
ernmentS.
7. A Modern City Hospital.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12
rTrTEEN YEARs AGO

It rained booze from the win
dows in the courthouse yester-
day when Judge J. Vining Har-
ris ruled that liquor which fig
ured in the case being heard
should be poured from the win
dows instead of being kept in the
Jail.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

Funeral services for Mrs. Fam
ME Grossman, go years of age,
were held yesterday afternoon at
800 o'clock from the home on
Division street. Rabbi Phillip
Kristal, of the B'Nai Zion syna-
gogue, officiated.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

Carpenters are at work today
rebuilding the old tank at the
Curry Aquarium. The old tank
was taken apart and an entirely
new one is being built to take its
place. In the new tank the glass
paneling is so arranged as to pre-
vent breaking.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here Just Five, Ten
and Fifteen Years Ago AS
Taken From The Files
Of The Citizen
FIVE YEARS AGO

There was no mail arriving
this week from Havana on yes
sells of the P. and o. SIS. Com
pany, due to a strike of govern
ment employees in Cuba.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

After a very successful winter
season plying between Havana
and Miami on the passenger run,
the Steamship Florida, of the p.
&. o. SIS. Company, will return
to this point tonight from Mi
ami.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12
TEN YEARS AGO

The contract covering the sale
of the Monroe county ferry sys-
tenn to Clifton G.. Bailey for $780,
600 was given the final approval
last night at a meeting of the
commissioners. The contract was
read by Attorney w. H. Malone
and then signed by the board.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

If you should happen to be in Egypt
and asked the Sphinx question you
would get the same answer that Roosevelt
gives to the third-term inquiry.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

With fifteen cases on the doc
ket, Criminal Court convened this
morning with Judge j. Winning
Harris on the bench and all Off
Gals and attendants present.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12
Man is free-to be as silly as he likes

If you have a toothache, and say
Get behind me, pain!' and it does-you
have lumbago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

Confucius, of whom we hear so much
at the present time, married at the age of
10. Yet it is said he was one smart guy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

Miss Amy Lou Oliver, cham
pion high diver, who was one OF
the feature artists at the Worlds
Fair in Chicago, was an arrival in
this city for a short stay.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

A Key West collector was heard to
say that he didn't like the new 81 bills be-
cause they stick. That's just the kind we
want.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

DR.. H. c. Galley, who was in
Philadelphia visiting relatives, is
expected to return to the city in
a few days. He visited Miss Ruth
Rose Galley, who is a student at
Mary Baldwin College.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

The greatest question of all time
why doesn't man use the common sense
with which he was endowed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

The Allies do not believe in pouring
oil on the troubled waters of Europe They
need it for fueling purposes in their highly
mechanical warfare.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

T. jenkins Curry, candidate for
sheriff, is making colorful campaign. He
- is having his placards printed in several
colors
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

Colonel Dickinson P. Hall, as
sistant adjutant and inspector of
the USING, of Washington, D.
C., reported in Key West this
morning and Immediately began
activities of his inspection of the
marine corps. He expects to COM
plete the inspection and leave to-
morrow.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12
SeSssssse sSsssssSSesssss
.Today's Horoscope

Today gives strong but con-
flicting mind There is quickness
lof thought and action and great
executive powers. The determin-
alton will often bring results, but
they are not always of the best.
You should always work in a
strong light and in dark moments
do not brood over perplexities.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

There viii be a banquet given
by the Elks at the Casa Marina
on Saturday evening in honor of
the grand exalted ruler of the
Organization who viii arrive on
that day. The event is being
looked forward to with much
pleasure by the members.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

A benefit show, Frozen Jus
tice", will be put on at the Mon
roe theater Thursday evening,
which will be given especially for
the Pythian Sisters, Key West
Temple No. 90. Funds derived
from the entertainment will as
sist in building a home for wild
ows and orphans.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

The term grand opera was first
introduced in France in 1920.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

Three Florida boys, classed in
the navy as (C-V)S, have report
ed to the local naval station for
a period of special training. They
are Ensign Clarence B. Clark,
Ensign William Grogan and En-
sign Lawson E. Hill of Gaines
vile.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

Twenty-Five members were
present at the meeting of the
Long Key Fishing Club at Long
Key, Fla, at which time officers
for the ensuing year were elect
ed. It was shown by reports at
the meeting that Sailfish for the
year caught numbered 407, 299 of
them being liberated.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

It was learned at the P. and o.
SIS. Company office today that
the last run of the SIS. Governor
Cobb from this port to Havana
will be made today. The vessel
made its last Sunday sailing for
the Cuban port last Sunday, if
was said, but another, and the
last sailing is today.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-12

Freeholders of Key West will
tomorrow vote on the $2,650.000
bonding proposition to extend
the Dixie Highway into the sea
and thereby create the wonder
drive, a drive which win be the
greatest ever. All predictions
are that the vote will gain vic
tory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-10

Mr.. Cammerer will supervise the
Eastern region, which has been the
scene of some of the most notable
achievements in conservation dur
ing his term as director. They in
clude the establishment of the Great
Smoky Mountains, Shenandoah and
Mammoth Caves National Parks
His appointment, therefore, is q
logical one, it was announced, as it
will keep him close to Washington
and available for general consulta-
ton on park matters.
The former director at the Rich
mond regional Office, Minor r. Til
lotson, is being transferred to Santa
Fe, N. Mex, to take charge of region
3. covering the Southwestern States.
For more than Is years he had
served at Grand Canyon National
Park, being its superintendent for
IL years, and is thoroughly acquaint-
ed with park problems of the South
west.
Col John r. White, regional di-
rector at Santa Fe, is being trans
ferred to San Francisco in charge
of all the parks in the Far West.
Frank A Kittredge, who has been
the director of the region, will be-
come superintendent of Grand Can
yon National Park in Arizona, a
position which has been vacant for
several months.
Mr.. Kittredge was formerly chief
engineer of the Park Service and
Col. White has served in it over 20
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-10
Current Fails,
| National Guard
HAS BIockout

A breakdown of trunk line
bringing power into the National
Guard Armory at Sixth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV. was
blamed today for the total black
out" which last night threw nearly
1000 guardsmen attending the reg
ular weekly session into darkness.
For nearly an hour the men car
ried on with candles and lanterns
while repairs were made.
The blackout interrupted physi-
clans and dentists in their exam
ination of recruits and forced Brig
Gen. Albert l.. Cox and his staff
to hold their board meeting by the
light of Pennsylvania avenue street
lights.
Detachments of the 121st Engi-
neers, a portion of the 260th Coast
Artillery and the 104th Quartermas-
ter Corps were at drill when the
power failed.
Gen Cox announced the promo
ton of four officers. First Its.
Charles P. Reichel, Edward D. Null
vanity and Henry B. Cockrell have
been advanced to captain, while
Second 1t. Donald S. Funk was
made a first lieutenant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-10
Fire Races Garage
AT National Airport

An early morning fire DESTROYED
the equipment department repair
garage at the new Washington
National Airport project today.
Fire companies from Washington,
Arlington County and Alexandria
responded. but were unable to ex-
tlnguish the flames which had
gained rapid Roadway.
Employees removed several valua-
BILE pieces of equipment, although
the loss OF other mechanical parts
and apparatus valued at several
thousand dollars was reported. Of
flcials at the airport said they were
unable to estimate the exact loss
pending a check with various ware
houses and other airport depart
ments to determine the amount of
equipment stored at the repair
garage
The fire is believed to have started
when a spark from a welder's torch
landed on or near a gasoline tank
which contained vapors.
Employees removed an air COM
preSsor, a welding machine, two
trucks and tractor.
Efforts to control the blaze were
hampered by minor explosions from
several inflated spare tires and from
melting safety valves on some
acetylene gas tanks. The blaze
started about Ais am. and burned
for about three and a half hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-10
British May Abandon
Plan for Evacuatinq I
Children 10 America
Conveys Are inadequate
Unless U. S. Vessels
Are Made Available
BY WILLIAM Fl. SLOVENIAN.


Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
LONDON, July 10-Due to the
inability of the British government
to provide adequate conveys for
liners carrying British children
across the Atlantic to Canada and
the United States, the whole scheme
for the mass evacuation of young
Britons has been put in temporary
allegiance.
1t is possible that the British
cabinet at its meeting today may
adopt plan for sending a limited
number of children abroad, in addi-
ton to those already sent privately,
but it is generally agreed that 6
large-scale plan will have to be
scrapped completely unless Amer
lean ships are available.
Need American Ships.
While there is definite feeling
that number of the poorer chill
dren should be allowed to seek shell
ter in America to compensate for
the fact that several hundred chill
dren of Weather parents have al
ready been sent there, the general
scheme itself has proved unavoidable
for several reasons:
In the first place, there is a lack
of adequate ships for transporta-
ton of masses of children. 1t is eS-
timated by shipping people that not
more than $500 children could be
carried to Canada and the United
States during the present month on
the ships which are now available.
In any case, there would always be
| the serious danger that one or more
of the ships used for this traffic
might be torpedoed Since there
have already been more than $4,000
! applications for children to be
transferred to the United States at
the governments expense, and
there are more than 100000 chill
dren in England, Scotland and
Wales below the age of Is, the hope
lessness of the whole task is SELF
evident.
In justice to the parents of chill
dren who have already reached
America, it can be recalled that their
children, in most cases, left Eng
land after the plans had been an
nounced for general evacuation of
children at the governments ex-
| penSe.
1000 Passports Granted.
1t was estimated today that Cana
dian and British liners engaged in
carrying children across the Atlantic
would not be able to carry more
than 500 children on one trip, in the
case of Cunarders, and 750 in the
case of c. P. r. vessels. Most of
these children would naturally GO
to Canada and it is improbable that
more than so or 100 child passengers
bound for the United States could
be carried on any one trip.
The United States Government
has already granted more than 1000
visas to such people and is expected
to have granted 5000 by August /.
At present, there is little hope that
even this number can be sent to the
United States.
Copyright, 1910. By Chicago Daily
Menus \
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-10
Federal Judge Urges
Compulsory Military
Training Law
u. S. Must Be Defended
By All Citizens, He
Tells House Group
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A Federal Circuit Court Judge who
temporarily snapped his judicial
robes for khaki urged Congress to-
day to adopt compulsory military
training legislation.
Judge William Clark of the Third
Circuit Court of Appeals, wearing
the uniform and special arm band
of the Plattsburg IN. " military
training camp, told the House Mill
tary Committee: Our Government
must be defended as it is supported
by all of it's citizens"
A World War artillery captain,
Judge Clark presented to the COM
mittee resolution adopted by the
men now in voluntary training at
Plattsburg urging enactment of the
proposed legislation as "the only
fair and effective method of calling
upon the citizens of the country to
defend it and its freedom"
Sees No Analogy.
I'VE see no analogy,H he contin-
ued, between selective compulsory
military service and totalitarianism
or any other ism. Such an argu-
ment might be as logically applied
to taxation. Our government must
be defended as it is supported-by
all of its citizens"
Members of the American Coun-
Gil on Education urged before the
same committee that any program
OF compulsory military training be
limited to men 81 years of age or
older. The Burke WadsWorth bill
under consideration would institute
selective military training for all
males from 10 to IS.
Legislation Is Opposed.
Rowland Watts, chairman of the
Baltimore Peace Conference, ex-
pressed opposition to the legislation,
citing a Senate Naval Committee
report which said construction of an
adequate navy would make unnec-'
essary maintenance of a large army.
Grenville Clark, New York at
torney, told the House Military
Committee, meanwhile, that COM
pulsory military training was needed
because the United States was faced
with "a very grave, immediate
threat which the mass of the people
haven't yet understood"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-10
water Gate Concert on WMAL

half hour of the second of the seasons Concert
Symphonies the National Symphony Orchestra under the
direction of Dr. Hans Kinder will be broadcast Station
. WMAL at $50 o'clock tonight
sooist for this presentation will be Jesca Dragonette
BY all attend the concert if you The music
the setting provide combination that makes exceed
ngy worth while But if you cannot attend tune in
WN1AL at $50 o'clock.
arranging these broadcas the National Broadcastng
Co. and The Star cooperating with the Summer Concert
Committee of the Symphony Orchestra effort further
appreciation and support the orchestra in its contribution
to the musical life of Washington.
Tickets to the concert be bought at the Water Gate
tonght If inclement weather forces posponement of the
Rconcert early announcement will be made WRC and
sWNIAL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-10
Italian Air Bombing
Moves MuItu Homes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VALLETTA, Malta, July 10.-En-
tire streets of homes in some areas
of this British Mediterranean island
have been demolished by repeated
Italian air raids, and city jewellers
have been removed to rural COM
munities.
Some of these villages are growing
into towns as business follows the
population.
Authorities said thus far 50 civil
ians, including 20 children, have
been killed in the air attacks, which
continue regularly by day." inter-
mittently by night"
Two churches have been struck
by bombs and mass is said under
ground as in catacomb days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-10
|Cammerer 10 Head
Richmond Region
OF Park Service
Ickes Announces Several
Changes in Field
Personnel

Secretary of Interior Ickes today
appointed Arno 3. Canmerer, for
mer director of the National Park
Service, as director of the No.
region at Richmond, Va.
The change was one of several in
the field personnel. Mr.. Cammerer
gave up dictatorship duties last
month for reasons of health, and
Newton B. Drury of San Francisco
was appointed to succeed him. Mr..
Ickes said at that time arrange
ments would be made to retain Mr..
Cammerer on the staff SO his eX-
perience of more than 20 years in
the service would still be available.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-10

idea of dictatorship is nothing new
to the countries of South America
and 1t is only in the exceptional
countries, such as Colombia and
Argentina, that democratic institu-
tons are really deep-rooted. The
South American relationships, how
ever, he pointed out, have not yet
been of the Nazi type, but rather
have been supported by military
and economic interests. He admit
ted. however, that parts of South
America might be only too well suited
to the growth of the totalitarian
state unless the dangers can be
clearly foreseen and countered in
time.
Closer to Europe,
Political parties are frequently
"personalista they support an in
dividual leader rather than any plat
form or program. There are forceful
changes of regime, initiated some
times by riots and disorders. The
conditions embody some of the chief
basic components of the totalitarian
state, the principles of personal
leadership a disproportionate de-
gree OF youth activity-university
students play very prominent role
In Latin American politics-and the
habit OF government by violence.
Socially and culturally, too, the
South Americans in the past have
been far closer to Europe than to
the United States. 1t is only within
recent weeks, in some places, that
there has been anything like a real
revulsion against Europe and its
ldeologies. The time is ripe, many
South Americans feel, for the United
States to play broader role in the
New World-with the probability of
rapidly increasing sympathy and
support from all classes of South
and Central Americans.
They are welcoming North Amer
lean enterprise. On the big strato-
liner which inaugurated high
altitude, express service between
Miami and Barranquilla, nonstop
across the Caribbean, distance of
LAB miles, there were three United
States citizens en- route to Jobs in
South America. One was on his way
to join seven other North Amer
ican"-the distinction must be made
here-road engineers, who will
superintend a 90-mile highway
project in Colombia. Another, trained
in the mines of Nevada, was on his
way to the Bolivian silver mines,
under a three-year contract. The
third, a Princeton University stu
dent, was also on the way to Bolivia
to gain background for completing
an education which might fit him
for service in South America.