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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-01-31
194l DIAMOND DUELS


ASSOCIATED Press Feature Service)
A youngster fresh out of COL
lege-Lawrence CRASH Davis of
Duke university-may outpoint
Connie Mack's $4,000 second
base beauty this spring. Benny
Mccoy, who cost Connie plenty
to sign last year when he was
declared a free agent at Detroit,
wasn't bowling success with the
AS.
His fielding was spotty and he
hit only .257
Davis, who came up late last
season, impressed Connie with
his play and Philadelphia scribes
say he'll give Mccoy a battle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-01-31
PEPPERS TAKE ON
BARRIERS MONDAY

Peppers Plumbers and Saw
yer's Barbres, strongest tens of
the city, will play another game
in the infantile paralysis softball
series Monday night.
The contest will start 300
o'clock at Bayview Park. e..
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-01-31
LOUIS DEFENDS
TITLE TONIGHT
DEMPSEY'S PRoTEGE. RED
BURMAN. CONFIDENT
OF VICTORY

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-Joe
Louis will make the thirteenth
defense of his heavyweight title
tonight when he takes on Red
Burman II : scheduled l5-round
bout at Madison Square Garden.
Burman, trained by Jack
Dempsey. famous champion of
the division years ago, is conf
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-01-31
PEPPERS Came From
Behind Last Night
To Defeat NauStas
49, a@w< g. g.. 49, aaws Gww< &aw~ @B
PAHOKEE POSTPONED
BASKET GAME HERE

Scheduled game between Key
West High School and Pahokee
High School varsity basketball
teams for tomorrow night in the
local Gym has been postponed
until Saturday of next week.
The announcement was made
yesterday by John Offutt, coach
of the Conch cagers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-01-31

dent he is the white hope" of the.
fistic world. He has consistently
gone through stiff workouts the
past ten weeks and has devised a
system he predicts will mean de-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-01-31

feat for the Brown Bomber. Red
claims he'll wear down" Louis
with body punches and then put
him to sleep" with rights and
leftS to the head.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-01-31
MEMORY OF THE moon
/. by Jeanne Bowman

| YESTERDAY: Constance per-
.suddes reluctant Judge Franclc
10 reveal the Taylors' plans.
IThey lCant to make the ranch
into a dairy farm.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-01-31

impulses than by reason. Re
member that uscre VII be gam
- by the exercise % dlscrvt ion
than hv mere bgu,e strength You
Vav carrv wear point Ter thu mo
n'ent b< danger follows closS.
lg. sg4t&l eases
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-01-31
Today's Horoscope

Today carries more force than
power Of action. The native Is
apt 70 be more moved by strange
Evening star., 1941-08-17

start blame or credit was laid strictly
at the door of the Duke and his imme-
date advisers.
1t worked, in big way, with the re-
suit that Nassau experienced its best
tourist season in years, and, on into the
summer, the visitors kept coming at
rate almost so per cent above previous
figures.
AS the shipping problem became more
acute, the Duke advanced a plan for
the colony to buy steamer laid up in
the United States and, for one reason
or another, not suitable to wartime sup
ply or transport purposes.
Business increased beyond the COL
ony's records, while elsewhere British
possessions more and more felt the
wartime pinch on money, ships and sup
plies.
But, with better business, came an
increase in the cost of living among the
poorer natives who form a big majority
of the population. Early in his admin
istration the Duke set himself to halt
the trend.
The Duke pushed through a new
law reducing high wartime tariffs on
essential foods, lumber and radios as
blow at the high living costs.
The egislature-militantly independ-
ent-was unenthusiastic about most OF
Evening star., 1941-08-17
Bahamas Resort Trade Revived by Windsors

the social program. The members de-
feated a minimum wage (about 80 cents
a day. for common laborers; refused to
set up sort of w. p A. to give work
on public projects in the outlying islands,
and postponed until next fall the con-
sideration of further tariff reductions.
These defeats seemed only to intensity
the Dukes determined battle against liv-
ing costs. AS each unsuccessful proposal
was rejected, he came back with new
ones.
Friends saw in this insistence on the
humanitarian approach to legislation a
throwback to the days when Edward was
King In those times, his feelings for
Welsh miners and other underprivileged
groups in England could find little outlet
in direct action and, in some circles, were
considered improper for the King.
No such inhibitions stand in the way
in the Bahamas, because here Edward is
executive head of the government with
the direct constitutional right and duty
to guide legislators to the same extent
that United States President may adj
wise Congress.
AS partner in his social policies, the
Duchess was assigned the job of relief for
the needy. Early in the administration.
she became head of the Bahamian Red
Cross Association.
Evening star., 1941-08-17

avocations may be important. A biologist
who has as his hobby the designing of
radio circuits may be more valuable to
the nation as communications engineer
than In his own biological field.
Provide Jobs.
Government spokesmen say they are
alive to the consequences of errors of as
signment made during the World War,
and believe the roster and its mechanical
system will fit each expert to a proper
job.
Information furnished by question
naires is transferred to punch cards by
use of code. Even the name itself is
coded by an ingenious method called an
"alpha-numeric index" OF course final
selections Of the particular scientist who
will fit a certain job are not made by
machine, since human Judgment is al
ways needed-but Government agency
is informed Of the experts from whom
1t may choose.
Tomorrow marks the first anniversary
of the National Roster of Scientific and
Specialized Personnel and already the
names of more than $4,000 scientists
have been provided to various agencies
to help in defense efforts With the
roster now in full swing, some officials
feel that the value of its operations may
be continued into future time of peace
to make constructive use of brains as
national resource.
Evening star., 1941-08-17
Bv Fred L. Stroller.

NASSAU, Bahamas, Aug. 16.-In one
busy year as Governor Of the Bahamas,
the Duke Of Windsor has pulled this
little colonial capital out of its business
doldrums and revived bustling resort
trade that showed signs of imminent
collapse IL month ago.
BY the power of their personal appeal,
the Duke and Duchess of Windsor have
drawn thousands of romantic American
tourists to Nassau.
Through the Dukes active interest in
social problems, legislation has been en-
acted or initiated to slice off a share of
the new prosperity for the lower classes
of poorly paid working natives.
Like any other public executive, the
Duke has been successful in only part
of his social program. The remainder
has been stymied by an often recalci-
trant Legislature with a tight hold on
the public purse strings.
Now the Legislature has adjourned and,
in the midst of Nassau's midsummer
heat and with the West Indian hurri-
cane season only a few weeks distant,
the Duke and his Americana born Ouch
ess are ready for their first real vacation
from the Job Of governing about 10000
colonials.
Evening star., 1941-08-17

Their first year in Nassau ends tomor-
row, and Edward and Wally want to visit
his ranch in the Canadian province Of
Alberta, so miles from Calgary at Peki-
sko. Their trip perhaps will include
stop in Baltimore, the Duchess home
town, and visit to New York
The Duke has been out of the colony
three times. the Duchess twice, since
their transfer here following the fall of
France.
In between these jaunts to Florida
have been months of busy work for the
Windsors and eventful times for the
islanders.
Rebirth of Hope.
When the Windsors arrived from
France by way of Lisbon and Bermuda
on hot still day in August, 1910, they
brought with them a rebirth of hope
among Nassau's people that the tourist
trade could be saved, even though month
by month more and more cruise ships
were being converted to the job of war.
Over widespread opposition, money
was poured from the public treasury,
at the Dukes behest, to keep passenger
liners on the New York Nassau run and
insure plenty of big tourist hotels in the
capital, by subsidy. AS a corollary,
advertising funds were Increased.
1t was big gamble. From the very
Evening star., 1941-08-17
Team Spirit Aids Shipyard

Ed Robson admits that college style
rah-rahs won't hold a battleship to-
gether like good, hot rivets properly
pounded home by noisy, bucking ma
chimes. But rivets, plus little of that
good old rah-rah spirit, help US to build
ships faster" he says.
Mr.. Robson is the pei sonnel manager
of the Newport News Shipbuilding g.
Drydock Co. Thirty-two years ago he
was star halfback at the University of
Georgia. where he learned something
about team play and esprit de corps.
This knowledge Is applied so success
fully in a Shipyard that Chairman Vim
son of the House Naval Affairs Com
mittee was inspired to rise last year and
proclaim the Newport News Shipbuilding
& Drydock Co. the best warship cradle
in the country, not excepting the Gov
ernment-owned plants.
On the surface, Newport News seems
10 be like any other shipyard But it is
the proud boast that never has there
been a strike, nor demonstration; that
1t has the best band and the top ap-
prentice school, IA athletic coaches and
the most superb morale of anything con-
nected with Americas national defense.
When Mr.. Robson was halfback at
Georgia he liked the manner in which
his youthful coach preached and demon
strated the Importance of morale. That's
the reason why this football coach sits
today in bare, white walled Office over
looking noisy, steamy main street. His
name, strangely similar to his chiefs,
Is Frank Dobson. If regarded solely in
the light of a football mentor he GER
tainly is one of the strangest in the land.
Mr.. Dobson's full title is director of
morale for the Newport News Shipbuild-
ing & Drydock Apprentice School. The
men who will build many of the great
ships of tomorrow are the boys whom
Dobson, also grid, basket ball and base
ball coach, selects today.
DobSon doesn't seek his material, like
the coaches who perennially aim for the
Rose Bowl or the big conference cham
pionships. His material comes to him.
Several times day he turns down 6foot
Evening star., 1941-08-17

200-pound prospects, many of them all
Virginia State high school stars, many
honor students. A 150-pound boy who
can play the tuba has just as good a
chance of getting into the Apprentice
School, which is as hard or harder to
crack then West Point or Annapolis, as
a star tackle or fullback.
In his bare Office Coach Dobson in
terviews candidates one at a time.
Sometimes, when ne arrives, there VIII
be 20 or Is lads waiting. AS the day
progresses more will take seats outside.
This reporter was allowed to sit in the
Office one afternoon.
A tall. well-built boy stood before Dob
sons desk while the coach examined
his high school papers. They were IN
order: the lad was an exceptional STU
dent. Moreover, he was football player,
q 19-year-old tackle who would be well
coined by any college in the South.
''Why did you want to come here?''
asked Dobson. did you enter college
anywhere else?"
The boy toyed with his hat. Il wanted
to 90 to West Point" he said. Il didn't
have all my teeth. Then I enrolled as
a freshman at A.. I stayed couple
of weeks and voluntarily dropped out.
It wasn't what I wanted"
Dobson shook his head. Il see,' he
answered, returning the boys papers
SIN sorry, too. I'd suggest that you
start college again this fall, say at Rich
mond or Virginia or Washington and
Lee"
The next lad was smaller, but COM
pactly built He was good student ano
q football and basket ball player of some
ability. He was quarterback, as was
his older brother who starred some years
ago for q Washington college. Dobsor
handed back his papers, too.
Evening star., 1941-08-17
By Francis E. Stan.

The boy looked surprised. would you
tell me why?" he asked.
Dobson nodded. Frankly" he said,
I'D rather not. It's not my rule and
we'd love to have you. But it's your
name. You see -
understand" replied the boy. "Well,
thanks"
Dobson put his hand on the lads
shoulder. Il know about you," he said.
Il knew your brother. Let me give you
letter to Coach B" He did, and
Dobson expects to hear about the exploits
of the lad this fall on the gridiron-
playing for some other school.
One of the unwritten requirements for
entry in the Apprentice School is that
candidate must be second generation
American. This barred the young quar-
terback with the foreign name. Another
requirement is that boy must come
direct from high school. He may have
gone to college, made good marks and
remained under the 21-year age limit.
But the Apprentice School doesn't want
this boy. The theory is that once he had
some other career in mind The Ap-
prentice School won't be second choice,
even to West Point or Annapolis. This,
then, barred the big tackle.
During the afternoon only one candi-
date was told to 60 home and await fur
ther notice. This meant that he had
chance. After the Apprentice School
finished investigating his family back
ground, his friends and his department
in general, and subjected him to an ex-
tensive physical examination, he would
be told to report for probationary pc
riod Of six months, during which time he
would be studied as to his fitness for
continuing the trade he had chosen.
If he is retained he commits himself
to a course of apprenticeship which will
cover not less than eight terms of six
months each, or four years. He may not
marry during this time, or have mar
ried before. He starts at a pay rate of
38 cents per hour. If he survives, he will
make "a cents an hour in his fourth
year.
He is expected to sit inside the steam
ing hot hull of an aircraft carrier, bal
Evening star., 1941-08-17

anced high on a scaffold, and weld and
classes in mechanical drawing, ship
nomenclature, chemistry, physics, Eng
lish, public speaking, economy, industrial
management, mechanics OF shipbuild-
ing and higher mathematics.
The candidate who tentatively was ac-
cepted that afternoon was no athlete.
His marks were no better than those OF
the athletes. In high school his only
outside activity was to play in the band.
One of the reasons why he was cOnsid-
cred was because he was born in Vir-
ginia, as were his parents. Marked pref
erence is shown for Virginia and nearby
North Carolina boys by this tightly knit
shipbuilding family.
Coach Dobson smiled ruefully when his
day was done I've turned down pretty
good football team today" he said.
Looks as If all I got was little material
for the band" Last fall the Apprentice
School won only single football game,
although the 4O-piece band played Justify
and the shipbuilders cheered until they
were hoarse.
When Frank Dobson resigned as head
coach at the University Of Maryland in
1889 and accepted position as football
coach" at Newport News, sports fans
wondered how the lttle-known, almost
unheard-of Apprentice School could
afford to hire a coach like Dobson. a
high -salaried, widely recognized veteran
who matriculated at Princeton, played
pro basket ball and first base for the
Pittsburgh Pirates, coached at Georgia,
Clemson, Richmond and Maryland, and
served on Olympic games committees.
Few knew that he was director of
morale, in reality. at one of the finest
shipyards in the world and that he
headed l3 other coaches who teach uttle
more than 400 students. That was thu
Evening star., 1941-08-17

work OF Ed Robson, who believes in
building ships the rah-rah way.
The shipyard fairly crawls with old
athletes. Over the aged. brick-walled
offices Of these ex-hslfbacks and major
league ball players who run the show
roll tons Of steel gripped In the teeth
of long-necked locomotive cranes which
operate on trestles 80 feet in the air
The plant breathes heat and sweat and
danger and democracy. One minute
Robson is handling a weekly pay roll
Of more than 5000 ,000 The next minute
he will be conferring with high officials
Of the Navy. A minute or two later
he will be perched on a scaffold, his
shiny, blue-serge trousers wet with per-
spiration, and kidding with some noise
happy, punch-drunk ex-riveter who has
been put to running an elevator up the
side of some naked warship hull.
A man can get punchy in shipyard
The noise is deafening. the heat terrific
and the dangers always obvious. Men
who are riveters for certain length OF
time find their nerves worn raw. A bolt
of lightning once struck the steel hull
of ship at Newport News. Cargil john
son, assistant to Robeson, recalls that
perhaps 40 men were on scaffolds at the
time. 1T was miracle" he said. Each
was knocked out but not single man
fell. We managed to remove them all
before they recovered and got panicky."
When riveters get punchy, like prize
fighters who never bothered to defend
themselves, they are dropped down a
couple of notches. They are amiable,
but glassy-eyed and flannel-mouthed.
They are fearless and can run elevators.
The Apprentice School undergrads,
when not attending classes, work side
by side with veteran welders and
riveters, white and black. Put an all
America fullback inside the hull of a
warship, dangle him from a scaffold.
give him bucking rivet gun to shoot
and turn on the heat to 102 in the shade
and the chances are that after hours of
this sort of thing he won't feel much
like making sports fans forget about
Bronko Nagurski. That's one Of the
reasons why even Dobson's most ardent
Evening star., 1941-08-17

admirers don't expect the Apprentice
School to win any near-future Rose
Bowl.
Once enrolled in the Apprentice School,
it is no simple task to stay. Guy G.
Via, supervisor of instruction and one
Of the country's leading vocational in
structors, has unique and complicated
system Of grading student. He per-
haps knows better than the subject
himself what is passing through a boy
mind.
Recently an apprentice was called be-
fore Mr.. Via to explain why his work
dropped off. He stammered weakly and
promised to do better.
You started as good student" said
Mr.. Via, studying the chart before him.
Then you dropped off in application,
interest, curiosity and speed. You got
married, didn't you?"
The boy broke down. Although a
family man himself, Mr.. Via had to
abide by the rules. The boy was
dropped.
Was charts are extensive. Daily a
boy Is marked fer workmanship, dex-
terity, speed, accuracy. confidence, as
similation, resourcefulness, interest and
application. Each of these departments
carry individual grades. An apprentice
is marked expert, skilled, satisfactory
mediocre or crude under the heading
of workmanship" On the chart
headed "Resourcefulness" he is graded
as ingenious, clever, average, ineffective
or helpless. An apprentice crude in
workmanship and yet ingenious on the
"Resourcefulness" card might well be-
come the next manager of the plant.
But he also would have to be marked
inspiring" or positive" under Con-
fidence," "eager or inquiring' under
Curiosity" and intense" or "high"
under Interest"
Evening star., 1941-08-17
Machine Picks Experts
For Tough Defense Tasks
By Irvin ". Hackeyman.

Whenever Uncle Sam, harried by de-
fense problems, needs more brains, all
he has to do is start up machine in the
Civil Service Building-and he gets them.
This particular sorting machine has
on tap a major portion of Americas sci
entists and experts.
Suppose, for instance, that the twist
ings of international events put this
Government in position where it needs
an unmarried chemist, five feet tall, who
speaks Eve and Geeze, has a knowledge
of glass-blowing, and has travelled in
Ethiopia.
A clerk will in this case feed the ma
chine with punch cards-thousands of
them. Mulling through the lot, the ma
chine will select few, and each Of
these will represent certain American
scientist who has all the talents de-
manded-even down to knowing Eve and
Geeze, little known African tongues.
1t does not all work by magic. Back
of the machine and punch cards stands
a system known as The National Roster
of Scientific and Specialized Personnel.
1t was just year ago that the National
Resources Planning Board, which is di-
rectly under President Roosevelt, called
a meeting.
Representatives of scientific bodies
:ame-from the National Research Coun-
Gil, the American Council of Learned
Societies, the American Council Of Edu-
cation, and the Social Science Research
Council. With the help of these pro-
fessional bodies, detailed questionnaires
were filled out by about 100000 of the
brainiest experts in the United States,
telling exactly what each could do.
Reduced to Card.
Famous men like Albert Einstein and
Carl T. Compton sent in the story OF what
they know and their fields Of vast knowl-
edge were reduced to punch card. But
since the idea behind the roster is full
utilization of our brain resources, the
most valuable scientist to be called upon
may be some now obscure chemist whose
work might suddenly bloom into world
shaking importance-a new chemical
weapon perhaps. Or specialist in an
obscure dialect Of . foreign language
may get a chance to use his skill tn q
diplomatic crisis.
The difacult job Of developing the Ma
tional Roster was placed in the hands
of DR.. Leonard Carmichael, president OF
tufts College. named director. and youth
full James C. OBrien, experienced Civil
Service executive, who was appointed
executive officer.
Their staff, working for the most part
in an old red brick building at 928 F
street NV, is still engaged in the almost
endless task of cataloging the abilities
of experts in over $50 authentic sciences
and professions. Information is re-
quested concerning geographic location,
age, marital status and sex as well as
training. Hobbies are not neglected, since
the experience Of the National Service
Department in England has shown that
Evening star., 1941-10-16
Washington Turns Out
For Brilliant Ball to Aid
Servicemen'S Canteen
Mrs. Wallace Heads HoStesses;
Many Dinners Precede Fete
Sponsored by Democratic Club

Washington brilliant a
last by the Women National Democratic Club
funds the canteen the Soldiers Sailors Marines Club
1015 ballroom of the Mayfower filled with prominent
representing the circles which make Washing
society and the the gyeSt recent
cotion three danced
forming the letters dainty givenqua hats
coors resembling cooley with tassels silk handker
chief
Mrs. Henry A. Wallace Heads
Receiving Line RankingIostess.
Wallace wife of the Vice President the ranking
Allan Doughery received the
assist
Standing
Mrs Coden Hull wife of the
OF c. Marshall wife Of the chief
of U. Raymond Fowler president of the
which established and maintains the
Club Scott Land wife of the
John Williams, had
much to do Curtis Shears president
Evening star., 1941-10-16
Claude Peppers .
Return From Busy
Trip to Florida

Senator and Mrs. Claude Pepper,
who have Just returned from a sew
eral weeks stay in Florida, had an
interesting and crowded program
during their visit. Senator Pepper
made several addresses and his at
tractive wife was the principal
speaker at the celebration in Jack
sonville of Women's National Demo-
cratic Day. Senator Pepper spoke
in GAINESVILLE Saturday before a
legal group, going from there to
Orlando to address the State con-
vention of Kiwanians and later
made the principal address at the
opening of Rollins College.
Senator and Mrs. Pepper also Wis
tied the latter'S parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. T. P. Webster, in St. Peters,
burg; spent a few days with Mr..
and Mrs. T. L. Snyder, brother-ln-
law and sister of Mrs. Pepper, in
Key West, and also were guests in
Coral Gables of Mr.. and Mrs. John
P. Martin, son-in-law and daughter
of Senator and Mrs. James H.
Hughes.
Among the parties given for Mrs.
Pepper while she was in Florida
was luncheon given by the presi-
dent of Stetson College and Mrs.
Allen, at which Mrs. Charles P. An
drews, wife of the senior Senator
from Florida, and Mrs. Louise Nc
Gregor, vice chairman of the Florida
State Democratic Committee, shared
honors.