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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-23
AamY CHRISTMAS

Despite the war, the Army is
allowing as many soldiers as pos
sible to spend Christina at home
For those who are remaining at
their posts, the camps are gay
with Christmas trees. holly. col
ored lights and decorations. The
festivities win not conflict with
religious services in the more
than 40 new chapels built by
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-23
MANY WORKERS
ARE NEEDED AT
PEARL HARBOR
SEVERAL HUNDRED WILL BE
REcRUITED BY FIFTH DIS.
TRIcr CIVIL SERVICE OF.
FIcE IN ATLANTA


Pearl Harbor Navy Yard. cru
cial center Of national defense
efforts, stands in urgent need Of
hundreds Of skilled civilian
nadesmen 10 Immediately take
over critical national defense
work. the United States Civil
Service Commission announced
today. OF this number, several
hundred win be recruited by
tie Fifth District Civil Service
Office ii Atlanta.
The Civil Service officials de-
scribed the situation as urgent
ana Hrequiring immediate prior
ilyp The commission said that
the recruitment OF these civilian
WORKERS IS Of primary import
snee to the U. S. war effort, and
urgently requested executives in
rripate industry TO release quail
fled sradesmen for duty in Pearl
Hsfbor
Civilian workers now engaged
In national defense contracts.
the commission explained, may
fle application if they enclose
a release from their present ems
rlayeEs r
Civilian workers assigned 10
Pearl HaFbor viii receive maxi
nam Navy Department pay su-
.knrized for their respective POI
nsnns, and pay begins the day
hese national defense men
kzre the Coast. Those appoint
sd vii receive transportation
lxsm their homes to Honolulu.
The Navy Department has
w1vided rooms and cafeterias
III them, under Federal super
won. Al which Pearl Harbor
erarl0yes receive good food and
Hed lodgings at fair prices.
Overtime pay IS authorized for
all sln,e in excess Of 40 hours
er week. and the Navy Depart
nest reports that about Is per
cant az all Pearl Harbor en-
pia7es work in excess Of 40 hours
etk week
zollawing is a list Of positions
u BE FILED from the Fifth TAT
Aztsl District, with rates Of pay
authorized for each position:
Pcsiticn Pay Per Hour
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TANKS

According TO the information
Division OF the Office Of Emer-
gency Management. American
factories VIII produce approxi-
mately $40 light medium tanks
during this month By the end Of
next year. 1880 tanks VIII be
turned out each month
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-23
CAHTA AND PAGEANT

A csnta, with "a Nativity
scene, wiz be presented at the
Fleming Street Methodist Cup
town church On Christmas Eve
night at II O'Clock.
Keep Christmas Eve Night
open and let US fiji the house for
this splendid program. Rev. W.
B. Mundy, pastor, said today.
This viii be a fine way TO en-
ter into the Christmas season.
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NOTICE UNDER FICTITIOUS
NAME %TARVTE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the undersigned. desiring to engage
In business under the fictitious name
Of The Shack. Key West. Florida,
intends 70 register the said fictitious
name with the Clerk Of the Circuit
Court Of Monroe County. Florida
Dated December %. 1871.
MRS G. II WALKER.
dec75-30. 1871. sans-13-2 %. 1s47
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-23
FULL MEDICINE CHEST


NEW Y0RK--New York City
wiz not be caught without medi-
eine IN case Of an emergency In
addition to other civilian de-
hnse measures. many biological
products are being stored against
possible need
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-23
Tomorrow's Tides
Naval Basel
FORECAST

Key West and Vicinity. Show
eFs and continued warm tonight.
small craft warnings displayed.
Florida: Showers and continu-
ed warm tonight
HatteFas, N. c., TO ApaIachi-
cola, Fla: Small craft warnings
are displayed from Charleston
S. g. TO ApaIaehicola. Fla.
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Restrictions on Small Graft,
Storm and Hurricane Warnings

For the duration of the
war, OF until further notice
all wind and weather fore
casts for ocean, coastal and
marine areas have been dis
continued except small craft,
storm or hurricane warnings
or advisoFies thereof. These
warnings and advis0ries viii
contain information as to the
wind veIocities expected, the
area affected, time of hoist,
and duration Of display. How
ever. no information viii be
given regarding the direction
Of the wind. the movement
and location Of the storm, or
any conditions surrounding
IT,
Warning displays win be
as follows: ONE RED PEN
NANT win be continued as a
warning to small craft. TWO
RED REMNANTS viii be
used for a storm warning
without direction. TWO
STORM WARNING FLAGS
Square red flags with black
centers) VIII be continued as
hurricane warning No
storm warning lights win be
displayed
c. S. KENNEDY.
Official In Charge
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NOTICE
NOTICE UNDER FICTITIOUS
NAME STATETE

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned. desiring 10 engage ia
business under the fictitious name
Of The Key Wester~ Of Key West,
Florida intends 10 register the said
fictitious name With the clerk Of the
Circuit Court Of Monroe County.
Florida
Dated this 2srd day OF December,
A d. 1S41-
MRS CHARLES DeSTEFAN0.
deez7-se. 1876 Jan6-I3-2 q, 1912
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WEATHER REPORTS

taken at 7:so a. M
18th Mer. Time City Office
Temperatures
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-23

the Quartermaster Corps recent
~
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-23
Precipitation

Rainfall, p hours ending 20
7'so a M. inches oo,
total rainfall since Dec. !.
325
Excess since December 1.
1872
Total rainfall since Jan. /.
51.80
Excess since January /.
menes " 400
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Relative Humidity

fomoFFow's Almanac
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M00nset
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
STOP TALKING
OURSELVES TO SLEEP

Once upon a time Yankee ingenuity
was famous around the world, but today
it is beginning to seem that Yankee boast
ing is the only thing that keeps its fame
alive
Such boasting was that of Senator NJ.
c. Wallgren Of Washington, who remark
ed the other day that Germany is far
ahead of all other nations in use of man.
ganese, but that with our great Ameri
can ingenuity We should be able to catch
up with them
Let's stop lulling ourselves to sleep
with boastful phrases.
If we're so doggoned ingenious how
come Germany got so far ahead of us?
If we're so ingenious, why is our defense
production program tagging Woefully be-
hind schedule all along the line? Why
aren't our factories building as many
bombers as they're supposed to? Why
aren't we building any heavy tanks at
all? Why did We leave it to Germany to
devise the panzer method Of warfare when
its basic principles were first set forth
during the Civil War by one Of our own
countrymen?
Ingenuity is nothing in the world but
a happy combination of intelligent
thought and hard work. The trouble is,
we've tried to substitute hot air for both
of them.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
LACK OF FORESIGHT

Nevada State JournaD
The national defense program today is
plagued by many shortages, and not the
least important is that of silk. The short
age of this commodity, essential in many
lines of endeavor and especially para
chutes, can be attributed to nothing less
than blunder on the part of authorities
whose duty it was to anticipate what this
country would need and take the neces-
sary steps.
1t was inevitable years ago when Japan
began her aggressions in the East that she
would ultimately run afoul Of American
foreign policy. Japan knew it long ago.
She could see the day when this country
would clamp down upon her. Cagily, she
stocked up on scrap iron, foodstuffs, ma
chine tools. And the manner in which she
gobbled up American oil and gasoline
has since become public scandal.
Experts say that Japan now has enough
oil to last for three years. In three years
the Nipponese can do deal of expanding.
Japan is now all set for her expedition
into empire. She may not succeed-in
fact there is evidence that it will prove
a costly venture. But that does not eX-
plain satisfactorily Washington's lack of
vision in not stocking up on silk. Now,
when it is too late, the government finds
the supply of silk cut off and nothing
much to take its place.
Nor is silk the only commodity in which
a shortage looms. There is also scarcity
of tin, tungsten, rubber and many other
important commodities. There is, for ex-
ample, the much-publicized shortage of
aluminium, which the cooperative house
wives of the nation have so generously
attempted to remedy. The nation should
have had stocks of these materials to last
for at least two years. Now citizens can
only hope that everything will turn out
well.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
DEVELOPMENT OF THE
WEST INEVITABLE

The national defense emergency has
centered attention upon a development
which, while it may not be completed
Immediately, is nevertheless inevitable
with or without the emergency. It IS de
velopment of natural resources and heavy
industries in the far western regions OF
the United States
The west. until now, has been a step
child when ii came to any KIND OF deNei-
opment which might compete with the
eastern states. That has been SO because
financing on scale necessary Tor such
development is controlled largely by IL
nanciers in the eastern states who nave
a monetary stake in protecting Their
eastern holdings The west has had TO lit
itself by its bootstraps in the matter OF
industrial development.
Yet even in the face of such an obstacle,
western development has been RAPID. III
the industrial line it has not kept pace
with such agricultural development as
Imperial Valley, for instance, has seen
in a comparatively short span OF 4o
wears. but even industrial holdings IN the
west have increased enormously. Their
increase has been in spite Of eastern op-
position-and because Of eastern consefV-
atism.
Westerners saw the potential field for
airplane construction, and started from
the ground up to build vast aircraft
industry. With few exceptions, they had
no great financial backing from the east
tern financiers Many of them, in fact,
were in dire financial trouble before they
saw better days. Yet. in keeping with the
vests spirit Of progress, they held on,
continued to build, and today they con-
troll the majority Of Americas aircraft
industries.
The world does not stand still, and
as it moves, the west will become more
and more an industrial as well as an ag-
gricultural and resort area. The future OF
the west will be built on new things,
not on the hidebound, ancient formulas
of the east. Let the east make automo-
bles; we shall make airplanes. Let the
east mine coal; we shall use electricity.
The destiny of the west lies in the future.
Proof? The west today eXcels in every
single industry born within the last 20
to 80 years Aviation and moving pictures
are good examples.
Our slice Of the future will be a large
one.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
by Willis Thornton :.
Peace Without Victory

There was point during the first
world war when Woodrow Wilson
advanced the suggestion that the
best outcome of that war would
be a peace without victory" Only
a little more than two months be-
fore he came to the American Con-
gress asking a declaration of war
on Germany, he came to the Sem
ate to propose peace.
Since it has been proposed by
several sources, most recently by
John Cudahy former U. S. diplo-
mat, that the United States ought
to take the lead in making some
kind of peace proposal, let's review
the Wilson proposal.
Wilson argued that noWorthWhile
peace could be arranged without
the United States and other Amer
lean nations taking part. First of
all he went on, ''it must be a
peace without victory. Victory
would mean peace forced upon the
loser a yictors terms imposed upon
the vanquished Only a peace be-
tween equals can last.
After this prophetic warning, Will
son then enyisioned his peace. An
international organization to create
and jointly administer peace. Dis
armament Territorial adjustment
based on national needs and rights.
Freedom of the seas. Equal rights
for all nations, small and weak,
great and strong.
Neither side seriously considered
Wilson's proposals.
Would such proposals, made now
have any influence in Europe? Is
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
COURAGE AND SKILL

(Christian Science Monitor)
There are always men-and women
who find they must respond when great
cause calls. 1t may be to fight, or to save,
it may be to build or to rebuild. This war.
no less than others, has its genuine vol
unteerS.
Part of the story of heroism that is
being written by these men and women
appeared on this page yesterday in the
letters of nurse. The entire record of
their sacrifices, exploits and achieve
ments, will be one of the epics of this
age. Cooperation between the American
and British Red Cross has supplied doc
tors and nurses. and young men have or
ganiZed ambulance corps.
Another army of volunteers, the i'm
portance of whose courage and work is
attracting increasing attention Is made
up of carpenters, maSOnS, technlclanS OF
all types, including radio and communi-
cations experts. These workers have been
reported as active in Northern Ireland,
and others are in the employ of contrac-
tors who have undertaken projects in
the British Isles.
This is non-combantant army. Its
newest branch is the Civilian Technical
Corps, now calling for men with electri-
cal and mechanical aptitude or experience
III lliCleli WI hIilS bSIlilllC iiouio VI is1ooi
and pay schedules are arrived at-for
electrical technicians the week runs from
48 to so hours and the men are subject
to the rules laid down for British defense
labor. but not to military discipline.
At time when transition from non-
defense to defense contracts, plus the
rigors Of economic warfare as in the oil
and silk industries, may cause some un-
employment in United States, the pro-
grams to defend America and aid Brit
ain through volunteer work armies seem
especially timely.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
by Paul Harrison
Hollywood S Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 18 The
snickering debunkers of Movietown
have been tossing aspersions and
canards in the direction of Dorothy
Lamour and her new picture, but
this departments jungle chivalry
won't stand for such talk. No, sub
The phony tiger and imitation
chimpanzee stories aren't true.
At least. they are not true as
they reflect on the courage of the
sultry siren of the sarong. Maybe
Paramount has made up Margaret
Raochs Great Dane to look some
thing like a tiger. And maybe they
have got a midget IN monkey suit
who vaguely resembles Mookey the
Chimp. But these creatures aren't
essentially performers. They're
stand-ins. Director Al Santell uses
em to work out the action and
lighting of scenes.
You'd only nave to glimpse the
big dog TO realize that he'd never
get shot for a tiger at any range
less than 500 yards. Most tiger
like characteristic is that he sinks
around close to the ground. He
sinks, I might add, in shame. His
costume is a suit of striped pa
jamas.
The midget does a little better
but not much. His arms and legs are
too short. A glimpse of him is
enough to make the real CHM
panzee scream in horror and lear
for the rafters of the sound stage
SATAN IN STRIPES
Her detractors would have yol
believe that Miss Lamour has los
her nerve and is playing scenes
with these burlesques of nature.
know she isn't. I happened by tht
stage just as she was finishing ont
of the toughest shots in the picture
She was asleep under a tree. Satan
the tiger proWled past her camp
Her back was turned toward hin
as he paused, shifted at her bar,
shoulders. and ambled into the syn
thetic wilderness.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18

either side in any MOOD to listen
to them? Could the peoples to
whom they might be addressed be
reach at all? Could German gov
ernment which has won an unin-
terrupted string of victories for
two years be inclined to listen to
any terms which implied giving
freedom back to pecf:es from whom
they have stolen it, and whom they
have declared unworthy to possess
it? Could terms be devised which
would make the British peoples feel
secure, or any peoples in the world
feel secure, as long as SO terrible
military force as that developed
by the Nazis remains?
And, most important of all, does
either side want peace badly enough
to make sacrifices to get it? Would
either side beWilling to embrace a
formula of peace without victory?
The obstacles which baked Will
sons proposal in 1917 are doubled
and redoubled today. Yet if some
leader were able to put before the
peoples of the world a project for
workable peace, who knows what
response he might arouse?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18

Except for an almost perceptible
rising of goose-flesh, Miss Lamour
didn't move, but afterward she
looked pale under her makeup and
admitted she didn't like turning
her back on the cat.
1t was small comfort that Sa-
tans trainer and another man with
a gun were standing just out of
camera range, but she went right
back when Santell hesitantly asked
for another take. A hair-dresser
combed her locks into precise posi-
ton, and makeup woman patted
her shoulders with a powder puff
Go easy with that" muttered Miss
Lamour Il think the tiger kind Of
likes the smell of it."
THIS CHIMP NO CHUMP
Miss Lamour also works with the
chimpanzee. Only trouble is that
Mookey is very poor actor. Like,
many other upstart juveniles, he
likes to hog scenes. Makes faces
at the camera and may walk right
up to it.
The company spent very try
ing day on single sequence in
which Mookey is supposed to drop out
of tree at the feet OF his mistress
and hand her piece of fruit.
He never did it quite right. FL
much soda pop and candy that he
much soda pc and candy that he
got a bellyache and wouldn't work
at all
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
WASHINGTON WHATNOTS

Army is paying cents a pair
more on recent shoe purchases be-
cause soldiers feet have grown SO
much that next size larger is re-
auired on most refits. Priorities di-
vision of OPM now has Is regional
field offices. Fifty Negro nurses are
being selected for Army nurse corps
to serve in Negro troop hospitals.
OF the 100000 new houses planned
for defense workers, about three
fourth have been completed. A
hundred Canadian Officers and
CONS are receiving training
with T. S. Army tank corps. Army
ordnance has developed several
types of cotton cartridge cloth for
artillery powder bags to relieve silk
shortage. State and federal unem-
ployment insurance funds may take
a terrible beating from temporary
layoffs in plants shut down for lack
of supplies or for retooling in switch
to defense industries.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
by Peter Edison =.
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

planes are single motored affairs
not licensed for commercial pas
senger carrying Night flights have
been conducted experimentally
with neon lights to mark the poles
Parachutes We're used to lower
fragil pouches.
In addition to the five routes
which it now has in operation, ALL
American has on file with the Civil
Aeronautic Board applications tC
extend its service to 237 communi-
ties in states where it now operates
and in New Jersey, Connecticut
Rhode Island and Massachusetts
And nine other companies have fill
ed with CAB proposals to extend
the service into 26 other states. II
they should all be put in operation
nearly 1400 of the smaller cities
not now on regular commercial air
lines, would have the advantage OF
air contact through feeder lines
that would tie them in with the
nations air route network.
MAY EXTEND STILL FARTHER
The overall picture on that net
work now is that the passenger
lines serve about $50 cities which
are big enough to offer passenger
revenues that make profitable op-
erations. There are $500 other cities
of more than $500 population, to
which the air transport system has
been more or less meaningless be-
cause of the time it took to make
ground contact with the airports
Pickup air service is intended to
bridge the gap,
Rep. Jennings Randolph, of FL
kins, w. Va, claims to be the
father of the service in Congress
and he is backing further exansion
His checks now show that the cost
of the service runs about 40 cents
a mile, and that revenues and in
creased air mail business OF from az
to SO per cent is reported from the
cities now served, making the op-
Grafton profitable to the govern
ment.
Cne pet dream of the Postoffice
Department is that some day, all
first-class mail in the country will
be handled by air.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
ROUGH SAILING

The combined mileage of the
routes was a little less than 1000
and the country flown over offers
some of the toughest flying Wea-
ther in the United States as it is
largely the area of the Alleghenies
which in the old days of early
commercial flying was called the
graveyard or hells stretch. The eX-
perience of these first two routes
was SO good that when the contract
was renewed, it was extended to five
routes, with two flights day, one
in each direction.
Some of the experiences Of the
operator have been noteworthy.
During the particularly bad winter
of 1910, there were days when heavy
snow grounded the. big commercial
liners, but the pickup planes, not
having to land, kept right on with
their mountain hopping. When
flood hit the Ohio valley, it was
sometimes necessary to 90 out in
rowboats to erect the poles for pick
up. Not a single crackup or casualty
las been reported, though the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18

LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
ORDER
NO. 1892
In the Matter of the Application
of LESLIE EUGENE BLAKELEY'
for Change of Name.
1t appearing TO the Court that
the above named Leslie EugenSn
Blakeley has heretofore filed his petS
ition applying tor cnange OF name.
and that the name of the person by
whom it is filed is Leslie Eugene
Blakeley and the name proposed is
Leslie Eugene Hartnett.
IT is THEREFORE ORDERED
that all persons interested in said
matter appear before this Court on
the 29th day of August, 194l, at tn,
hour of IL o'clock am, and show
cause, if any they have, why the
said application for said change OF
name should not be granted.
TT is FURTHER ORDERED that
the Imperial Valley Press be and
it is hereby designated as news
paper of general circulation in which
this order is to be published once
week for four successive weeks.
Dated July 25, 194l.
v. N. THOMPSON, q
Judge of the Superior Court.
| (J28- -A4-11-18
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18

Give the housewife and the moth
er enough in her pay envelope and
she will not have to be told what
to buy. She'll know what to buy
herself.
Mayor LaGuardia of New York