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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26
Believe it or not-but just a few years

Believe it or not-but just few years
ago the Treaty of Versailles prohibited
Germany from owning any military air
planes. In that treaty, the cause of the
present war, Germany should have been
made either absolutely inIpoteht or given
the kindliest consideration and allowed
her place i'm the sun. The middle course
proved disastrous. assSss
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Ian
dis, now 70 years old, is begin
ming his goth season as baseball
czar, a job which pays a salary
of $65,000 a year. His authority
over professional baseball is alb
solute, and there is no appeal
from his decisions. He was named
for the Civil War battle of Kene-
saw Mountain, in which his ia
Their was badly wounded. III
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage.
2. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning).
). More Hotels and Apartments.
4. Beach and Bathing Pavilion.
5. Airports-Land and Sea-
6. Consolidation OF County and City Gov
ernmentS.
z. AgModern City Hospital.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26
KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY
happenings Fifteen Years Today
AS Taken From The Files Of The Citizen

: their boys attend the Rotary
Clubs Citizenship Program to be
given Tuesday morning at $50
o'clock in the Monroe County
High School auditorium. Hon.
Frank Laid, the mayor of Key
West. will speak on city govern
ment. ,.-lr
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

A Kentucky distiller has been
refused registration of ''F. ID. R.
as a trademark for a brand of
whisky, for the very good reason
that ''the public might assume
that the President was connected
with the manufacture or had en-
dorsed this brand of whisky"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

A New Orleans publisher warns news
paper editors throughout the country
against statewide relationships. What
happened in Louisiana under the Long
machine, he says, can happen in any state.
How ever, it is hard for them to last as long
as we have a freepress and free speech.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

Britain's Lord Chamberlain,
Earl Clarendon, is taking steps to
make American strip-tease en-
tertainers in England wear more
clothes. Numerous members of
Parliament have complained that
nudity on the stage and in night
clubs is shocking.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO

A meeting called by the Cham
Der of Commences president
and directors was held this morn
ing in the offices and arrange
ments made for entertaining 300
engineers, who will be in the
city on June g. Realtors and 9TH
ers have been invited.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

Women suspected of being
German spies have been writing
mash notes to Allied soldiers, es-
pecially the Canadians. Authori-
ties have forbidden officers and
men to enter into correspondence
with these former strangers, for
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

--.----.- Roosevelt does not want to sever dip
lomatic relations with the Soviet Union
? because that woaldshesan admission they
should not have been resumed in the first
place, and the Roosevelt clan never adj
mits their mistakes.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26
TEN YEARS AGO

Monroe county is expected to
continue to elect her county COM
missioners just as she has done
in the past. There appears to be
little chance that she will be af-
feeted by the fight that is now
being waged in Leon county to
determine how county commits
sionerS are to run.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

An Eastern manufacturing firm for
bids the use of pocket cigarette lighters in
its plant, probably fearing that the darned
things might really work some day.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

In early Presidential elections
no uniform method of choosing
electors was followed. The leg
islatures frequently named them.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

The successful man is the man who
can make more money than his family can
spend.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

The army has 100000 or more soldiers
in Georgia. To dry up the swollen Rivers {?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

The newly-organized Garden
Club, with E. A .Strunk as presi-
dent, has called meeting to be
held tomorrow evening, 8 o'clock,
at the Woman's Club on Division
street, where a number of MEM
bers are expected to assemble
and discuss matters.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

One of the most satisfying sights on
aarth-a dentist in another dentists chair.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

Now comes a Better Foot Week A
lot of members of Congress with cold feet
should support the idea.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

EurOpe's sculptors are getting ready
for a new flock of war memorials.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

While making a landing at the
Pan American airport yesterday,
Miles Vernon, plotting his plane,
met with a mishap which dis
abled the flying craft. One of
the wings was damaged and 9TH
er minor injuries resulted from
the landing. The plane will have
to be repaired before it can be
used.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

fear military secrets might be in
advertently disclosed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

/ Leaving tomorrow afternoon
on the 45-foot Ketch Hurricane
will be three adventures, Roy E.
Kaufman, Gerry Mefford and
Morrow ]. Allen. Their depar-
ture will be the beginning of a
voyage which will take them to
many parts of the world. The
cruise will extend over five
years.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

Donald Minister of Media, Pa,
complained that his wife played
the radio all night; threw money
out the window rubbed dirt on
his newly polished car, and
sprinkled soap flakes on eggs he
had fried for himself when she
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

Everything is in readiness for
the play to be given by local tai
ent entitled "Our Island City,
which has been written by Mrs.
Hildegard Russell and directed
by Mrs. Russell and Bert Her
nandez, assisted by a selected
cast and the Pythian Sisters.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

Harry Ferguson, special writer
for the United Press, who came
here several weeks ago to gather
news for a series of articles on
the rehabilitation of Key West,
left yesterday afternoon having
completed his assignment. He
will stop in Miami
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

There were several hundred
Shriners arriving in the city this
morning. They make up Egypt
Temple of Tampa. They arrived
on SIS. Cuba and a large number
Of Key West Shriners and others
met them at the dock to greet
them and extend a hearty well
come.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

Several residents of a census
area in Wisconsin will have to
answer the questions all over
again. After working for q
couple of days gathering data,
the enumerator got disguised,
tore up the census forms and
quit, saying he was tired of talk
ing to so many women.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26
SIDELIGHT rs
By MARCY B. DARNAIL
Former Editor of The Citizen

Rushing up to Richard Harlan
on street in Portland, Ore, a
stranger shouted your coats on
fire." and after going through the
motions of beating out the flames
he walked away. When Harlan
removed his coat he found II
had not been on fire-but his
poeketbook was gone.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

refused to cook. He was granted
his divorce.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

The Chamber of Commerce has
two-page advertisement on
Key West, briefly summarizing
It's attractions, in the Hollywood
Magazine for April Particulars
are ALSO given of all Monroe
County with illustrations of va
rious places of interest.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

The Daughters of the Confed-
eracy will decorate the graves of
all Civil War soldiers and sailors
Sunday morning in the city
cemetery. In the afternoon the
Daughters will hold services in
Bayview Park at the foot of the
Confederate monument.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

All schools are requested to let
their boys and girls attend the a
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

Funeral services for Captain
Eugene Knight, whose body ar
rived from Miami this morning,
will be held at 4 o'clock this aft
ernoon from his residence on
Eaton street to ST. Paul's Episco-
pal church, where services will
be held by Rev A. B. Dimmick.
The senior pupils of the Con-
vent of Mary Immaculate have
arranged a play entitled mid
Summer Nights Dream, which
will be presented at the San
Carlos Theater on Tuesday eve
ming. a.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

Claude Thompson, who has
been absent from the city for
about six weeks on a cruise to
the west coast, returned yester-
day from San Francisco. Claude
sailed as cabin boy on the yacht
Intrepid and, reaching San Fran
cisco, the seamen's strike was on
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26
FIVE YEARS AGO

Charles Taylor, manager of the
Potter Dock Co, has received no
tice from the Standard Fruit and
Steamship Company that the
Summer Tours of the line will
begin inH-May with sailings an
ncunced from New York and
Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1940-04-25
Pennsylvania 6. 0.P..
EIated Over Primary,
Presses Fall Drive
Democrats Faced
With Selection
OF New Leader
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 25.-Penn-
sylvania Republicans, elated over the
size of their vote in Tuesdays pri-
mary, plunged into plans for two
isted fall campaign today as Dem
ocrats tackled the job of revamping
their State organization.
Major problem confronting DEM
ocrats was selection of successor
to David L. Lawrence, who sur
rendered the party leadership and
announced his retirement as State
chairman after United States Sen
ator Joseph F.. Guffeys decisive VIC
tory in fight for denomination.
Mr.. Lawrence, who split with Mr.
Guffey in the 1888 primary, backed
Walter A. Jones, Pittsburgh oil man
The Senator beat Mr.. Jones by
nearly 100000 votes. A third can
didate for the nomination, William
N. McNair, former Pittsburgh Mayor
trailed far behind.
Will Continue in Politics.
In stepping aside, Mr.. Lawrence
insisted he wasn't giving up politics
but would continue active in his
home county of Allegheny pitts
burgh. Until the 1888 discord. he
and Mr.. Guffey had been friends
and political allies for IS years.
The Democratic State Committee
must meet no later than May % to
Evening star., 1940-04-25
elect chairman and other officers.
Despite the lively Democratic fight

elect chairman and other officers.
Despite the lively Democratic fight
for party control, Republicans,
united behind the successful sena-
torial candidacy of Jay Cooke, Phil
adelphia city chairman, polled the
largest vote in Statewide balloting
Republican State Chairman James
F. Torrance summoned his State
Committee to meet May II and de-
clared that Republicans in Penn
sylvania are the victors in the first
battle of the presidential cam
paign." He predicted the party's
State candidates would be elected in
November by more than half a
million votes.
Mr.. Cooke asserted: THE wide
margin between the Democratic and
Republican votes cast assures proof
that the citizens of this State are
continuing to reject the New Deal
in the same thorough way they
started to do in 1888" when Re-
publicans regained control of the
State government
Latest Returns.
With only 1923 of the States 8,105
districts missing, the Democratic
senatorial candidates polled a total
of 729,939 votes, compared to total
of 910,810 for three Republican SEN
atorial candidates-Mr. Cooke, Al
bert H. Ladner of Philadelphia and
John A. Derenzo of Altoona, Pa. The
registration was 2,572, 100 Republic
ans and 2,046,129 Democrats.
Returns from 7,777 districts gave
Mr.. Guffey 1874, ,425 to 295 ,905 for Mr..
Jones. On the Republican side,
1853 districts gave Mr.. Cooke $685.
556 to 207,307 for Mr.. Ladner, his
closest rival.
Democrats cast nearly a half mil
lion votes for President Roosevelt,
whose name was the only one on
the preferential ballot. In the Re-
publican presidential voting, all
write-ins, Thomas E. Dewey of New
York, with 8,700 votes, led Gov.
Arthur H. James of Pennsylvania
six to one.
Evening star., 1940-04-25


mass landings. Even Trondheim is
inadequate for such operations be-
cause it has a long and narrow
approach dominated by positions
impregnable from the sea. Op-
erations from Narvik south are
practically impossible because there
are no passable roads connecting
the north and the south of Nor
way. The British air force has
to operate from its nearest base
400 miles aWay-or from the air
plane carriers which are threat
ened at ali times by submarines.
AS long as the Germans have a
f1otilla of submarines left-and they
have many despite losses since the
beginning of the war-the trans
port of supplies to the army will
be difficult and dangerous.
The landing of comparatively
small units may be spectacular;
they may obtain local victories but
they will be in difficulties as soon
as they are in the presence of
larger German forces able to get
their supplies and reinforcements
either by air or by railroad from
Oslo.
Difficulties Weighed by Allies.
These difficulties were, of course,
known to the allied general staff be-
fore the troops were sent to Nor
way. Yet the political reasons de-
manding such an expedition were
so strong that the allies had to take
a chance.
Had the allies contented them
selves with merely denouncing the
Germans for their ruthless conquest
of Norway, the rest of the small
neutral countries might have gone
over to the German camp bag and
baggage. The slogan of the Goeb-
bells propaganda outfit that every
time the Germans achieve a de-
cisive success Mr.. Chamberlain
makes another speech and that is all
the assistance anybody can expect
from the allies might have rung
true.
Allied troops had to make their
appearance in Norway even at the
risk of heavy losses in order to show
the neutrals that they can count on
allied support.
| Neutrals Reassured.
The landing of British and French
forces has put new courage into the
governments Of the Netherlands and
Switzerland. Both these countries
are placed In better position than
the Scandinavians because in the
event of a German invasion they
can obtain immediate and substan-
tial help from the British and the
French. Had the allies remained
impassive at the rape of Norway
these nations might have assumed
that they in turn could look to no
assistance if and when their turn
came.
The campaign at Gallipon was
dictated by military motives and
proved to be a blunder.
The allies did not think that a
military decision could be reached
in the rugged mountains of Norway.
The operations there were dictated
purely by political motives. Now.
even in the event that they may
have to give up, the neighboring
neutrals are satisfied that the Brit
ish and the French are determined
to meet their opponents in wherever
they choose to send their armies.
Evening star., 1940-04-25
Gov. james Will Call
SpecioI Relief Session
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, April 25.-
Gov. Arthur H. James whipped into
shape for issuance today a call for
a special session of the Pennsylvania
Legislature to replenish the relief
treasury.
He has said he expects a short
session-two or three weeks.
Relief funds are being exhausted
at the rate Of approximately 9,O00,-
600 month. On the basis of recent
expenditures, an additional $70,000,-
600 will be needed to keep relief go
ing until the 194l legislative session
in January,
Evening star., 1940-04-25

during the socalled Virginia Dynasty Secretary
followed jefferson Secretary Of Monroe followed Madison and
Secretary Of State John Quincy followed
The gloomy ntgues of Calhoun against
Old Hickory
presidency there followed
upsets and there until appeared
the systematic reduction the President
bottom began For the Republicans had received the fright their
Lncons President
the presidency with
were chosen
ticket The exception Of Theodore Roosevelt
belief that
who could not be depended to stand Mhed and take
this
and the 1882 nomination
typical bit Of Throleboom politics D.
Cactus Jack from the
servatve Roosevelt strongest
the machine
Evening star., 1940-04-25

the first responsible formal advocacy
United States military involvement
politically and economically enangled it
growing conviction Washngton-n parties
the Americas the victory
good deal bigger than the merely political interests
Hitler his
At time when is thought smart politics
keep out OF this Me Aop and Kntner
side would IBID farewell
which the founders this Republic fought" submit
is important.
Y News Inc
Evening star., 1940-04-25

Ihe organization as directed by Mr.
Hamilton is functioning efficiently
Indeed, it has functioned we'll ever
since 1t caught its breath a few
months after the smashing defeat
which the G. o. P. suffered in the
1886 elections. The campaign OF
that year closed with the Republi-
can National Committee facing q
deficit of 81, ,167 900. TWO States cAly
Vermont and Maine, had remained
faithful to the Republican party
The G. o. P. was as fiat on its back
as it could be and still breathe. There
were demands from many quarters
that the chairman be replaced.
Despite the discouraging situation
under the leadership of Mr.. Hamil-
ton the Republicans caught Their
second wind and scrambled back
to their feet. Little by little the
debt was reduced, funds we're col
lected to carry on headquarters, to
supply the Republican congressional
and senatorial committees with
needed money to operate and money
was turned back to the States for
their own use.
G. o. p. Revived by 1888.
BY the tin,e 1893 rolled round
with its congressional and guber-
material elections, the party organ
ization was hitting on all fours. The
Republican gains In that year were
material, although the Democrat.
were still left with large majorities
in the Senate and House. But the
Republicans had started their march
back.
Ordinarily, the practice has beer
for a new national chairman te
take over the head of the nationa
political organization as soon as q
new presidential nomination ha!
been made. The practice has neither
made for efficiency nor for economy
Of effort or money. With the arriva
Of a new chairman, the organiza.
tion, such as it was, turned a flip.
flop. The Republicans, however
during the last three years have
built up an organization designed
to carry on for years-with a re.
search division, for example. com.
prising IA men. all trained in that
work, several of them formerly with
the Brookings Institution. They
have set up also an efficient pub.
licity division directed by Franklyr
Waltman, jr. A woman's division
under the leadership of Miss Marian
Martin, formerly a member of the
Maine State Legislature and of the
Maine Senate, has been extremely
active.
National committee members who
have backed the chairman in hi.
efforts to create an efIicient ane
smoothly operating organization
working in cooperation with the
Republicans in all the States, are
anxious to see it continued and not
thrown on the scrap heap. If a new
chairman takes over next June, put:
lot of new assistants in Office, a.
new chairmen have done in the
past, at best it means a long delay
with a national campaign already
under way before the organization
can hope to function well.
Democrats Working Smoothly.
The manner in which the Demo.
cratic National Committee, under
the leadership of National Chairman
Farley, has been continued and ha!
worked smoothly during the las
seven and half years has been ar
example to the Republicans. Mr.
Farley, becoming chairman immedi.
ately after the nomination of Presi
dent Roosevelt in 1882, has remained
on the job ever since. There was nj
lost motion whatever in 1886, wher
Mr.. Roosevelt was renominated. Ant
Evening star., 1940-04-25
The Capital Parade
Third-Term Group Heortened Despite ToIk
Roosevelt Fuvorc HuII-Jockson Ticket


1t hardly managing
eventually
their eaboatey draft conviction
grown steadily stronger for months Probably will not
proved right the President
they expect him to do after the Republican
1t really striking however that despite the
President will
confess that he talking them opposite gone
far indeed for them the
ticket for which he first indicated his preference months
Compoigner Jackson
AS reported the Presidents
simple logical AS Secretary represent
principles Roosevelt administration in foreign afa while
Evening star., 1940-04-25
If We Take Our Goats orr

These the Presidents
whether position
President must because he is the
The President accepts the New Dealers contention that sacrifice
liberal
their thesis
invariably named Corde Hull
domestic policy
take coats of" Hulrs selection be easy.
Speaking
clarity the Of the democracy
Evening star., 1940-04-25
Device Fails to Work

The experience of the last shows that this
wasteul and mpotc
program Of action it could with the patchwork
geographical machine considerations grew
1887 Vice President Garner head of the opposition
Roosevelt and chief of Illustration
Of
To select Mr.
absurd Yet to follow the Jefferson
equally nadvisabe since Rooseves Secretary of
job with foreign affairs
lens, old and unwilling a candidate
President To
running mate in the third drive continues
resstbe the President
Assistant President OF the United States in charge of domestic policy
and In this the presidency will filled
admittedly Of presidential stature with to taking
presidency itself in 1914 with background
training to fill the most important elective
This device will problem combining representative
with the filling
1t has the further
plane the problem Of division
itself.
The question remains of the other liberal
General BOD Jackson Senators La Toilette Wheeler Supreme Court
Douglas Black
Secretaries Wallace Ick point committing
himself the whole grand design still
lily" stage.
Advocacy of Involvement
The Importance of american White Paper by Joseph Asop
Robert kntner New York, Simon g. Schue
enprng coumnsts have tried public
Evening star., 1940-04-25

ooooC Va pobA1S
power.
The r e p u b.
licans have been
slow to develop
the lines of at
tack, but the ad-
mini S t r a ito n
leadership is vir-
t u a ly playing
into h e hands
Of its opponents.
Thus two major
pieces of ! e G i S.
lation-the Wal
ter-Logan b i'll
and the amend
Evening star., 1940-04-25

up by Chairman
Hamilton during
the last three
and a half years
continued in
cluding reten-
ton of the ma
tional ch ir.
manship by Mr..
Hamilton for
the 1910 presi-
d e n tial cam
paign.
T h ere are
sound reasons,
say these COM
mittee members,
for stlch q course
Evening star., 1940-04-25
Oil Wells Ruise Hopes
Of Mississippi Wealth
By the Associated Press.

BY IIle HSsOCldCeu PTeSS,
YAZOO CITY, Miss. April 25.-
Mississippi, State with the lowest per
capita income, looked back today
on its first eight months of oil pro-
duction and found the picture prom
Using hope that the State is on
the Threshold of new wealth.
Eight months ago Mississippi had
not a single oil well. Today the
State has two fields, AZ producing
wells, an average daily produc-
ton of more than 5000 barrels of
high gravity oil, 10 tests drilling
and wildcat activity in 81 Of the
States 80 counties.