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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07
LIONS BILL AIDS BLIND

A measure which would provide for
training of Florida's blind in useful oc-
equations and extend every medical help to
those whose sight can be restored will be
sponsored by Lions clubs of the state before
the legislature this session.
1t is difficult to see on what basis the
bill could be turned down. either from
humanitarian or financial standpoint
Thirty-six states already have divl-
sions of service for the blind, according to
the LIONS, and twill be the purpose OF the
Organization this year to get such divi-
sion set up in Florida under the welfare de-
partment.
As the Lions point out, the United
States government has agreed to purchase
all mops and brooms for the armed forces
which the blind can produce. Florida, with
2.346 blind persons receiving state pen
sions, must get it's mops and brooms from
South Carolina, which has the directing
agency which this state has not.
North Carolina, for instance, has re-
ported:
at would cost annually $117,54O in
county, state and federal funds to provide
direct relief at the present average grant
of $500 per month to maintain 653 per-
sons in blindness, which is the number OF
blind persons who have had their vision re-
stored Interpretations paid by the North
Carglina Commission for the Blind
although the financial aspect of their
case must be stressed by the Lions in order
to win approval before hard-pressed
legislature, the fact that an intelligent pro-
gram could restore the sight of hundreds
of men and women and restore the self re-
spect of hundreds of others who are IN
durable is enough to present the proposed
measure with powerful argument.
The hopeless, pensioned army of Flor
ida's blind is one of the states most pltltul
liabilities. The same army, given spirit
of usefulness and equality through voea-
tional training and ray of hope through
efforts to effect cure, could be one of the
states valuable assets.
The Lions and their bill deserve every
possible aid.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07
TENucENTs A HELMET

The American Committee for Defense
Of British Homes is interested In receiving
steel helmets which will be sent to Great
Britain for the use of those exposed to
danger during air raids.
If any reader has steel helmet lying
around. it might be good idea to send it to
England where it might save life me
helmet may be shipped without much
trouble. All that you have to do is to paste
an address tag on the crown and pay ten
cents postage The helmet should be adj
dressed to The American Committee for
Defense of British Homes, 10 Warren
Street. New York City.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07
AlRPLANE ENGINES NOW.

Z" An idea ofw.hat is happening in the
defense program Is obtained by recalling
that in September. 1889. the three manu-
facturers of airplane engines in the United
States produced between 200 and 800 air
plane engines.
In February. according to William s.
KnudSen, American manufacturers de-
livered 470 high-powered airplane en-
giues. While all of them did not come from
the three manufacturers referred to in the
first paragraph, most of them did and the
three companies are expected to turn out
nearly 4.0e0. engines month by July,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07

Classified Column


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Advertisers should give their
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Payment for classified iadver-
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vance, but regular advertisers
with ledger accounts may have
their advertisements charged.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07

: Economists applaud the AdminiStra-
tidils move TO borrow from individuals
rather than from the banks in order to meet
the increased burden of defense needs. but
it must be remembered that the publics re-
spSnSe is bound eventually TO be con-.
diUoned by the ever present threat that the
Cove nment may seek 10 repudiaa, its debt
bgwi ting up the value OF its $4,000 000.-,
600 gold hoard in the devalnation of the
dollar as was done once before by President
Roosevelt. BY this means. it is said. our
Government can wipe out it's debt over
night, but the fly in the ointment is that by
So.do,ng il will bring on a runaway infla-
ton with its terrible hack-wash To obviate
sush 4 possibility, finaneiers recommend
tbs ending of the Government monopoly
oWner3hip of gold, by restoring the boarded
gorI-to circulation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07

The war cannot be won in the Balkans,
it 3 pointed out, but the beginning of the
enh could very wen be effected there. If
the Battle of the Balkans actually takes
place, as now seems close to inevitable, the
war will really enter its decisive phase. This
battle represents immense dangers to both
si4es-and both for some time have been
hestant to run the risk Now it looks as if
tho. strategists may have decided that the
possible gains are so great that it is worth
the gigantic gamble
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07

Conveys of American ships were con-
sidered dangerous as President Roosevelt
himself expressed it. Now consideration is
being given to conveying ships only half
way across the ocean, that will be followed
by conveying them all the way, and then
we AGill he in the war as sure as death, to
use the words of Senator Tobey.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07

/. Who and what is the Negus?
2. What is the bread ration in
unoccupied France?
8. What two capitals of coun-
tries at war have escaped bomb
attacks?
4. How many submarines has
the US. Navy?
5. Who is the chairman of the
Democratic National Committee?
6, Who was the first woman to
be elected governor of an Amer
lean state?
Z. For what crime has Earl
Browder. Communist leader. gone
to prison?
s. What is a "Molotoff cock
tall?
Q. Is there a railroad from Ber-
lin to Baghdad?
10. In bull-fighting parlanee.
who kills the bull?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07
HAMPTON SHOWS
FINE QUALITIES
OF SERYEL UNIT
SALES MANAGER OF LOCAL
GAS COMPANY TELLS OF
IMMENSE PRODUCTION OF
REFRIGERAToRS

III the combined ice production
of all the re:rigerators manufac-
tured by Servel, Inc. in the past
twenty years were to be formed
into one icicle a foot square it
would measure 100000 miles. long,
Allan Hampton, sales manager,
Key West Gas Co, said today
This icicle would be long enough
to reach from the earth to the
moon and then extend couple of
thousand miles or the other side.
we have received in one of our
communications from the manu-
faeturer of the gas refrigerator
many interesting achievements
concerning the company and its
product" Mr.. Hampton said. "As
you know this is the only re-
frigerator which makes ice with
no moving parts in its freezing
system, cannot wear out or make
noise. 1t is a refrigerator that
will stay silent, last longer.
1.-The giant iciele that could
reach beyond the moon would
weigh about one trillion, four
hundred and forty billion pounds.
This would represent a yearly pro-
duction Of about 70 billion pounds.
The daily production would prOs'
vide twenty five pound piece of
ice for every third family in the
United States every day, Winter
and Summer. II this were broken
down into ice cubes it would cool
glass of beverage for every man,
woman and child in the United
States, plus one for everybody in
the British Empire. including In
dia, and still have some ice cubes
left over.
Some interesting facts on the
Servel factory workers show that
more than 1000 people are on the
payroll. OF that number almost
one-fourth have been with the
company ten years or more. TAX
ing just the group that have been
with the company ten or more
years there are more than eleven
thousand six hundred man years
/ CT experience alone behind the
4 Seryal refrippratDrS.
"Contradicting the criticism
| leveled at industry that it has nc
place in its ranks for men forty
years of age or over, recent sur
vey of Servefs personnel showed
THAT about one-third of all its emr
ployees are in the forty-plus age
! group.
"This should be of interest to
women: not only do the house
wives play a large role in design
ing this great refrigerator but IN
the factory at Evansville, Ind.
more than five hundred women
employees help make this product
that women use.
| Data on some of the materials
used revealed that steel and cop
per tube long enough to girdle
the earth at the equator could be
made of the amount OF tubing
used in the past ten years in Ser
vel refrigerators. A freight train
/ loaded TO capacity would be nine
miles long if the amount of sheet
steel used in a year were brought
! to the factory all at one time.
| 'sThe Servel plant is the largest
| in the United States devoted ex,
clusively to the manufacture Of
refrigerators covering an area o.
fifty-four acres. Besides this
warehouse space covers additional
area" SIT su
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

Water and Sewerage
q More Hotels and Apartments.
g. Beach and Bathing Pavilion
d. Airports-Land and Sea.
s. Consolidation If County and City Gov
crnments.
o A Modern City Hospital
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07

It is easy to be a popular college presi-
dent. All he has to do is to please the board
of control the undergraduates, the parents
and the alumni
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FORECAST


(Till 7:30 D. M, Tuesday,
Key West and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy tonight; Tuesday increas-
ing cloudiness followed by show
ers; mild temperature; moderate
southeasterly winds, becoming
fresh Tuesday.
Florida: Partly cloudy, slightly
warmer in northwest and west
central portions tonight; Tuesday
increasing cloudiness, showers in
west and south portions.
Jacksonville to Florida Straits:
Moderate east to southeast winds,
becoming fresh in Florida Straits
Tuesday; partly cloudy weather
tonight and Tuesday, possibly
showers in Florida Straits late
Tuesday.
East Gulf: Moderate east and
southeast winds, becoming fresh
Tuesday; mostly cloudy weather
tonight and Tuesday, showers
Tuesday.
CONDITIONS
Pressure is moderately low this
morning in the Plains and West
. Gulf States with a center over
Oklahoma, and light to moderate
/ precipitation has resulted during
the last "a hours from the Texas
coast northward over Minnesota
and the Dakotas, and thence
sswea tward "'"into the northern
!. Rockies. There has also been
rain, mostly light. in the Pacific
States from San Francisco north
ward. A moderate high pressure
area, crested over the Lake re-
gion, overspreads much OF the
eastern portion of the country,
and fair weather has prevailed
throughout most of this area.
Temperatures were somewhat be-
low freezing this morning in por-
tons of the Rockies and New Eng
land, but readings are generally
near or above normal throughout
the country.
G. S. KENNEDY.
Official in charge
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FOR GOOD CAUSE

INDIANAPOLIS ~ James Will
son Of this city was sent to jail for
forging a check with which he
paid for Bible.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07

Army filters die in crash is familiar
headline in the newspapers during these
days Of preparation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07

Adam was the only mar in the world
wh6-could truthfully say to Eve, you're the
only gill in the world for me, and get away
with it,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07

The people who trade here are the
ones who believe in building up Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07

1t might pay you to be little sus-
pieions.ol the man who is willing to let you
in On a good thing"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07

A poor advertisement pays neither the
paper.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07

If you think you are right always hold
your ground. A little yellow flee will chase
anything that runs
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FOR SALE-Double Corner in
Grove Park, Upper Matecumbe.
size 100x125: also other lots in
same, subdivision; will sell or
4 adjoining, reasonably. Apply
Box T, The Citizen. apr7-tfs
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FOURTEEN FIT. OUTBOARD
MOTOR BOAT. Fully equipped
and one Johnson Cupboard mo-
tor, A hip. $3.50. James II
Pinder, 1217 Petronia Street.
jan3-s
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MISCELLANEOUS

TO THE PERSON who has been
making a habit of stealing Pa
payas from the garden of the
Silver Palm, the tree has been
sprayed for insects. Eat the
fruit at your own risk. apr7-it
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-07

FOR SALE or Exchange Cabin
Cruiser, 28-ft.. eft. beam; 40
hip. Gray Marine Engine. Win
exchange for lot. full or part
payment. Box B.R., The citi-
zen. n1ar6-u
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FOR SALE-Soanish type house.
large lot, many tropical fruit
trees. Also, party boat Jewel" !.
Apply 808 Eaton Street.
jan6-s
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FOURTEEN TT. SAILBoAT.
Fully equipped. 500. James II.
Pinder. 1917 Petronia Street.
jan3-s
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FIvE-ROOM FURNISHED COT
TAGE on waterfront On Big
Pine Key. Price, $500, or will
consider trade Write Caufk-
ms, Ramrod Key, Fla. marl2-ts
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u. S. WEATHER
BUREAU REPORT

: observation taken al TAD a. IN
18TH -Mcr Time tcity offiee)
Temperatures
Highest lasts24 hours rs
Normal J. tt ------75
Precipitation
Rainfall. "a hours ending
1880 a. M, inches trr, 600
Total rainfall since April l,
inches ......-s..-.-=.@..-sssif22
Excess since. M April Job Ya
inches -s44-,--..--4s-,.s-esa-a 1.76
'rotm rainfall since Jana i
INCHES -------4----------------r----- I@.uo
Excess since January l,
llC1eS t.ou
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PAIR OF SPECTACLES in Post
Office. Finder please return
to Citizen Office. apr5-2tx
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WHO KNOWS7

See The Answers" ON Page 4
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LOST

BULovA WRIST WATCH with
gold wrist band. Initials ids.
on back of watch. Reward if
returned to 1909 Southland
street. apr5-3t
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FOR SALE

BABY PLAY PEN, in good con-
dition. zoos. Southland street
apr5-3t
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Subscribe 10 The CIiizen. 20<
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APRIL SALE ON GIFTS.
Lingerie, Silver and Je@elry
Unusual opportunities at a lows
cost. OLD ISLAND TRADING
POST. SO Duval street.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-04
20 YEARS AGO fME frfm EMPIRE
JUNE 4, 1921

1921
 Cant A E. Iathrop of Cordova Representative the Third Division in the Territory through Juneau to Seattle. Goodman Superintendent Pybus Bay Packing Company in tender Pybus to purchase supplies
 Juneau shotgun have big day at the
 Secretary E. G. who stated that marked the distances accurately
 chaperoned Of Douglas young people on trip picnic the end of the island
 Dougles Eagles were Alex Suock Worthy President Charles Sey Chaplain Carl Schmidt Treasurer Jack Sey Conductor Alex S Inside Outside Guard G. Johnson Alex Sturrock installed by proxy owing to Chchagof.
 The Bureau of with c. w. Cheatham as District the extension the road romA Montana Creek.
 high school students was an tuition fee to charged.
 High temperature 7s low, 43; clear
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-04
Tragedy on the High Seas
Seattle Post Intelligencer)

Seattle Post Intelligencer)
 It is possible to draw many conclusions from the high tragedy of the battle which saw first the British Hood, then the German Bismarck sink, ap- parently with all hands
 There is an obvious parallel with the battle of Jutand the outstanding naval engagement of World War l. Although British losses were heavier than those of Germany in that battle the German grand fleet was crippled that it never ventured upon the high again.
 Britain again can afford to trade battleship for batteship, even two for one, and maintain naval supremacy, so far as capital ships concerned.
 There are two other factors in this naval war.
 One is that of cruiser and destroyer strength. The acknowledged losses in these categories suf- ferred in the Mediterranean probably more serious blows to Britain than the much more spectacular loss of the Hood promptly avenged.
 The other factor is air power. And while air power is particularly important in comparatively strcted engagements such as those in the Mediter- ranean, the sinking of the Bismarck is new re- hinder that the airplane may be dominant influ- ence in any naval battle.
 It was a plane-launched torpedo that crippled the Bismarck It was an American made patrol plane that located the fleeing German battleshp, so that the remainder of the British fleet could admin ister the coup de grace And the full details of the epic battle may reveal many other services Of the air arm, for side or both
 Many questions remain unanswered, upon the basis of early reports and some of these questions are of particular interest to America.
 Just where did the engagement start? What were the German vessels doing close to Green land? What other losses have the two sides Suf- fered, in addition to the Hood and Bismarck?
 And in addition to all questions that may be asked by statesmen and naval srategists and tacti- clans, the moralists of all nations will have queries of their
 The of the Hood and the men of the Bis marck died gaantly. And the people of the world may well ask ITO what purpoSe?"
 Many other thousands have died less spectacu- larly but with equal herosm, in the Mediterranean and upon the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and many will die today and tomorrow and on many other morrows.
 It is natural for nation at war to exult over victory and to minimize the cost There will be jocing in both London and Berlin the Hood Bismarck encounter.
 The families of the slain will grieve silently. But sometime if the present slaughter continues and mounts, the burden of their grief may burst all bounds
 Eventually the common people probably will de- termine when and how this shall end. That ray of hope at least remains in a world that is all too full of present suffering
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-04
BUSINESS IN ALASKA

We read in Domestic Commerce that in 1889, last year for which complete figures available, Alaska had 104 wholesale establishments which did a neat little business amounting to $9000000 Of the total 38 groceries meats and fish firms and 38 gasoline, fuel oil and ubricatng oil firms
 Retail establishments totaled 989 with an aver age total employment of 1,645 persons and receipts of slightly more than $23,OOO0OO First in number 358-were general stores and trading posts, second food stores with 108 third restaurants, luncheonettes, grils and cafes with 98 and fourth wearing apparel-81.
 The taken in the year showed AL aska to have population of 72,524 This indicates every man, woman and child in Alaska spent some thing $317 in the Terrtory's retail stores in 1939
 Not bad for this backwoods Territory at the top of the world
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-04
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA

Old and forgotten Kaiser Wilhelm dies at Doorn. We glance at the news and turn with great interest to the stories of another and greater war waged by little Corporal from his armies
 In his day the Kaiser was a dread monster to many of But quarter of a century of fitful peace lies that memory, and most of will remember him as the white bearded woodchopper in exile rather than the fierce lord in spiked helmet
 Thus does time heal all things-even hate, Thus will time heal the miseries of 1941, though it is a little hard to imagine that we might read with out emotion in 1866 of the death in peaceful exile of Adolf Hitler. It is even harder to imagine that might then be giving most of our thought and effort to another and even more terrible conflict brought about by gross negligence.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-04

which Hitler had condueted Europe fThe attao* on Czechosovakia" he said, "began with the scon- quest of Denmark The occupation of Greece began with the occupation of Rumania and Bulgaria. The occupation of the United States begin with any base to the north or south in the Western Hemis- phere"
 Just a week before, on May 22, the Merry Co., Round gave an almost identical reminder of how Hitler first took Austria in order to surround Czech osovakia likewise engulfing Poland, Greece and other countries by encircing tactics, and how this same strategy would be used against the United States via South America.
 In view of the Presidents constant reemphass on the danger to South America in his speech, it is interesting to go back to The Washington Merry Co., Round column published as long ago December l, 1886, in which Pearson and Allen told of a private conversation Roosevelt had with delegation which came to protest against the building of big navy
 Roosevelt explained that he was certain that the dictators of Europe eventually would turn to South America as the only unexploited region in the world and added: T am determined that not one inch more of Latin American soil shall fall into European hands. That's why am building up a big navy" '"t
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-04
37,O0O LETTERS

The ordinary days mail on regu- lar government subjects (social se- curity, WPA, farm problems, etc) numbers from to 4 thousand. The war issue vastly increased the mail. A high figure of recent weeks was 37,0OO letters in a single day.
 But the all-time record of White House mail was established when there was no controversy involved This was on the Presidents birth day, January 30, 1887, when the march of dimes brought the as- founding total of 158,000 letters in one day.
 About three-fourths of the ordin- ary mail coming to the White House is answered. Mail that is obviously propaganda receives no answer at all.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-04
TOOK and LEARN &sy c. GORDON

expression Newcaste? $ of the noted actor, Alfred Lunt? On are that in other the world? s a codicl? Congress?
 
 statement Newcastle being coalng has O additional Fontanne. Australia. m addition or change i a will. Twelve; Georgia represented
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WHITE HOUSE MAIL

The tons of mail poured into the White House by isolationist organi- zations plus Bundist-leftwing allies had little effect on the President.
 For two reasons: First, 1t was so patently an organized deluge. Sec ond, a considerable portion of the letters and cards were anonymous
 When the flood first started Roo- and of disgusting nature.
 sevelt was impressed. But as the mail was analysed it became ap- parent that only a small percent age was spontaneous and sincere; the rest was inspired.
 The propaganda mail Is easily spotted. When the White House re- ceives 1000 letters in a single day all using the same language, they are worthless as an indication oi true public sentiment. They are obviously part of an organized drive.