The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 31, 1936, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1 LEGALS IN THE COUNTY JUDGE'S ee| IN AND FOR MONROE Cor ATE OF FLORIDA. i BATE. re the Estate of GEORGE A. T. ROBERTS, PAGE TWO _ Che Rep iest Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC, N, President ] oe! KEY WEST IN | Today’s Horoscope! DAYS GONE BY |** ‘ This day carries more force) pea age ont 10 Years! than power of action. You are apt! ™ FLIRTING WITH DEATH It is an amazing fact that the ap- ' palling number of deaths which result from sheer carelessness make no greater From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. second class matter Florida, FIFTY-STVENTH YcAR untered at Ki Member of the Assoc itcd Press fhe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credite1 in this paper and also the local news published here. . [BSCRIPTIO: one Year ... Bix Months ~‘Three Month: ne Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on appl: ition. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices , Will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which ® revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general Interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and. Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. Free Port. Hotels and Aparcments. Bathing Pavilion. Aicports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments, There is no war any more, because aggressor nations can always invent a new name for it. Some folks think that they establish a superiority rating by disliking what other people enjoy. Missionary efforts in the Orient have borne fruit. Japan and China are acting ~much like Christia: nations did from, 1914 to 1918. —_——--—- - 1 Shades of 1920. A Miami Beach Io-| tel will let you have a nice suite of four rooms at $95 a day, or $4,090 for the sea- son. Now, ain’t that just too lovely. Perfect observance of all health rules would add 20 years t) the average pe son’s life, a doctor declares. But wh. could afford to live that much longer? | It is claimed that some lobsters were | found encased in ic» for 3,000 years and] that shortly after they were thawed out they had young ones. T*cy hadn’t gotten. for- Things happen mostly in the day time when people are awake and active. That is why evening papers are first with the news in a preponderant majority of cases; and that is why evening papers out- number morning , pers about five to one. There is always a reason for everything. Not one person in Key West desired the abandonment of the F. E. C. railroad; not one person could possibly have bene- fited by its elimination, yet The Citizen be- lieves the road will never be restored. The claim is made that it was not a_ paying proposition anymore, and even if the of- ficials were willing to restore the railway, where was the money coming from to be loaned to a corporation in receivership. Since the government guarantees bank deposit; to the extent of $5,000 and the-banks, are required to pay a sort of ‘processing tax to make good the guar- antee, the senate’s idea that this outmodes postal savings methods seems a point well taken. Let the people make their de- posits direct to the banks, rather than the round about way through the _postoffice. The government hasn't any safes, any- way. -If it takes a full loaf to satisfy the ap-} petite of a famished person, half a loaf} would be welcome but would not entirely | stili=the hunger. If the government will! not allocate money for the building of the | ‘bridges on the road to the mainland but! will make available enough money to “build a highway by utilizing the F. E. C. trackage and abandoning the railroad, then-we cannot do otherw: than su!-} mit, though it will be done with helpless! resignation and bitter reluctance. impr This is especially true with respect to drivers of automobiles. Persons who are ordinarily careful in protectin their health and property often throw discretion to the winds the moment they grasp the wheel of a motor car and flirt with death through failing to observe the most elementary principles of safety. They will take a chance at a grade crossing, speed while rounding a_ blind curve, pass other cars under dangerous conditions, and do other foolish things which menace life and limb—seemingly oblivious to the fact that one slight mistake of judgment may prove fatal to them or to those who happen to be on upon the average person. passengers in their cars. The jaywalker is equally reckless, taking the chance of being run down for the sake of saving a few steps or a mo- ment’s time. In fact, many pedestrians are even more careless than the average motorist. Safety education has been the means of reducing accidents to some extent, but the lamentable fact remains that no amount of warning has any appreciable ef- fect upon the majority of people. The result is that 36,000 or more per- sons are killed and about a million are in- jured in automobile accidents in the United States every year, while at least 90 per cent of these casualties might be averted by the use of ordinary common sense. LEST WE FORGET Today certain factions are subjecting the American Constitution to vigorous at- tack. They are saying it is outmoded and unable to cope with modern conditions. And they are suggesting changes and amendments which, in some cases, would amount to complete emasculation of the rights and liberties we now enjoy under Conztitutional protection. It is usually easier to criticize than to tefend, and the critics of the Constitution ‘e found many listeners and not a few converts. Lest we forget the virtues of the constitution, it might be well to recall these words, uttered in 1878 by the great English statesman, William Gladstone: “The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.” ‘Some things are timeless. Among those thiigs are freedom—freedom of ac- tion wi‘hin the law, freedom of expression, freedom of speech. The Constitution has nothing to do with partisan politics. It simply guarantees us those essential liber- ties for which men have fought for thous- ands of years. Look abroad, at Germany, Russia, Italy, Poland—do we want to fol- low their example and make freedom an impotent word, and liberty a crime against the state? Then save the Constitution from, being weakened or destroyed. SERVICE CLUBS WORTH WHILE The phenomenal growth of the pop- ular service clubs has been an interesting development of recent American life. In thousands of towns and cities men have joined the Lions, Kiwanis, Civitan Rotary or similar organizations without much idea about what they were doing. However, once they begin to attend, to meet their fellow-townsmen and to listen to programs that to some extent deal with local affairs and problems they develop a social consciousness. It is a by-product of the service clubs but a valuable con- tribution to any city or town. Thousands of municipalities in the United States are without any of these or- ganized clubs. They have hardly an op- portunity to secure a cooperative attitude among the adult males of the community, because the men have no regular occasion to gather together, to spend an hour or se under circumstances that invite an intelli- gent approach to civic and social problems, Key West is fortunate in that it has seen the service clubs, of which the Rotary Club is outstanding, at work for the up- building of this community. Their con- tribution has been distinctive and worth while. We would be glad to see ‘them spread elsewhere. TITTLE Ld One of the famous Saint Bernard dogs on a mountain look-out point at the celebrated monastery in BROADCAST direct from the famous Hospice of Saint Ber- nard in the Alps of Switzerland will be a special feature of the Magic Key program to be heard over an NBC network on Sunday afternoon, February 2nd, at 2 P. M., EST. The monastery is world famous for the fact that the monks main- tain a large kennel of Saint Bernard dogs which patrol the blizzard-swept passes in search of lost or injured travelers.'When a traveler is lo- cated, he is revived by the brandy which the dog carries in a small keg attached to its collar. If unable to TODAY’S Lowest Highest last night last 24 hours 4 26 40 6 Station Abilene Atlanta . Boston Buffalo Charleston Chicago - --6 Denver .... 28 Detroit .... 2 Galveston 34 Havana ........ 66 Huron -----20 Jacksonville 28 Kansas City . --2 KEY WEST . 58 Little Rock 18 Los Angeles .. 56 Louisville - --4 Miami 48 Minneapolis ..--16 New Orleans 30 New York .... 14 2: 38 oe | Pittsburgh St. Louis - Salt Lake Cit, San Francisco 52 Seattle ......... 32 Tampa .......... 34 Washington .. 10 Williston ......-22 ‘Temperatures* Highest . ' Lowest . Mean . Normal aD -12 Ins. -05 Ins. -howe perio one. Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation - iN record cavers wdinc nt aelock th Tomorrow’s Almanac fun rises - Sun cets ..... Moon rises Moon sets . m. High Barometer 8 a. Sea level, 30.01. WEATH=R FORECAST (Till 8 p. m., Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Gen- erally fair tonight and Saturday; continued cold tonight; some- _| central "| over high pressure area now the Alps of Switzerland. continue afoot, a rescue party is directed to the traveler by the dog. The broadcast will include a de- scription of the hospice aud the sur- rounding mountainous terrain. One of the monks will explain the work of his brothers in maintaining this service to humanity, and, in a tour of the-kennels, some of the Saint Bernards will send their canine greetings to American listeners. To make this broadcast possible, en- | gineers have hauled special equip ment on sleds up the steep sides of | Mt. Blanc through drifts 30 feet deep. | WEATHER what warmer Saturday; moderate | northerly winds, becoming north-j Tonight Florida: Fair and continued! ! cold tonight with frost southward |to the Lake Okeechobee region j and possibly to mucklands of ex- ; treme south portion and with Tomorrow | temperature 24 to 28 degrees in{~ j extreme north portion, 26 to 32} ! degrees in interior of central por- tion and about freezing on the | coast of central portion. Saturday \ fair with rising temperature. Jacksonvile to Florida Straits and Kast Gulf: Moderate north- erly winds becoming northeast tand generally fair over north and , | partly overcast weather over) uth portion tonight and Satur-; | Key West Realty Board WEATUER CONDITIONS | The disturbance that was near | Jacksonville, Fla., yesterday ; morning has moved rapidly north- | | eastward, being central this morn-' {ing off the New Engand coast. Eastport, Me., 29.66 inches, and | pressure is. relati low from the} Rockies southwestward | California. Denver. Col.,; 29.92 inches; while the westrer; extends from the northern Plains south- eastward over the Gulf States, {Little Rock, Ark., 30.40 inch’ ; Light snow has occurred during the last 24 hours in the eastern Lake region, upper Ohio -Valley, and in portions of the north and / middle Atlantic States, and there has been heavy snow in North) Carolina. Precipitation has also been general throughout most Gulf coast districts, in the Flor- For the NEW YEAR GIVE THEM A SAVINGS ACCOUNT Nothing teaches a child thrift like a Savings Start one with us for him today for as From time to time add to it. When graduation and college come along he will be prepared for them. He will soon learn the lés- son that it is not what you earn but what you save N Account. little as one dollar. that makes wealth. The First National Member of the N : : : Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance 2 Corporation I CASAL A Ah dbtedtddéadédédéed IO TIPO PCLLLLELLLLLELLLLVLLELLLLECIP PILL ALEAILAOPZD ED * * par 3 | Bank of Key West Federal Reserve b heuke athe ide herd ull uh ihe ude uke ude ailleudl ul athe . The Files Of The Citizen Shirley C. Bott, announces the marriage of his daughter, Miss Euphemia Bott, to Lieutenant James E. Jones. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. K, E. James at the Baptist parsonage on the evening of December 21, 1925. A‘ military wedding and re- ception had been contemplated, but was abandoned because of de-j partment orders transferring Lieutenant Jones, and the lack of time for preparation. The last lap of their longest sea voyage was completed yester- day when the 23 planes of the; F | Key West. The T-3 was en route naval squadron arrived at Havana yesterday afternoon. The planes} left at intervals from Key West beginning 10 o’clock in the morn- jing. and the last one reached Ha- | vana- 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The three ‘tenders guarding the {planes are the Wright, Sandpiper and Teal. At the weekly luncheon of the today, the matter of operating a bus from Trumbo Island to points in Key West was again brought be- fore the meeting by Hilliard Ham- merschlag. He stressed the fact that from 200 to 600 people were visiting Key West daily, and he believed that should a sight-seeing bus be operated along the lines laid out by him at a former meet- ing, it would prove to be a paying, proposition. The entertainment committee will take the matter up at once with Manager Grooms of the Key West Electric company. Lieutenant R. M. Little, M. C. U. S. N., is in Key West investi- gating the death of Paul Vernon Vreeland, sailor attached to the U. S. S. Sandpiper. The Red Cross drive will be inaugurated tomorrow promptl at 10 o’clock, by the Rotary Club. Captains of the. various teams are calling workers in conference! ida peninsula, and South Caro- lina. Temperatures have fallen ; in the northern Plains States, and throughout most sections from the | Mississippi Valley eastward, with sub-zero readings in the Ohio Val- ley and*western Virginia, and be- low freezing over western Flor- ida, and minimum temperatures! of 16 to 20 degrees below zero were reported this morning in Minnesota and the Dakotas. U.S. KENNEDY, Officer in Charge to be moved more by strange im- pulses than by reason. Remember that more will be gained by the exercise of discretion than by mere brute strength. You may} carry your point for the moment, | but danger follows close in such cases, : an ment of territory for work. It is expected the territory to be) covered will be worked over to- morrow. j jand giving each one The battered U. S. naval sub- marine T-3, is being towed to {this port by the U.S. S. Bay- {spring, according to information | received at the naval station in from New London, Conn., to Key cating system caused fuel loss. |The Bayspring was despatched to her assistance in response xadio messages. The craft was tossed about in a terrible storm which raged along the coast. The boat will remain at |Key West for several months. According to the report issued by Building Inspector Ralph B. Pinder, there were 12 new build- ings erected during the month of | January 1926, and repairs were i authorized to 23 structures. The, total sum in permits for the month is $79,782. | } The crew of .3e ill-fated schooner Semmons, rescued from the sinking vessel off Hollywood shore by the steamer W. W. Mills and brought to a sea buoy near here, were landed at Key West) yesterday. The last man of the! the vessel sank. and the Mills \headed for Key West. Most of jthe clothing and property of the crew was-in a life boat broke away. Advices have been el has found the boat, and the} | clothing and other valuables will) be sent to the owners. ; Editorial comment: Al! these men that marry the wrong wom-! |an, would seem to need lessons in| [the selection of merchandise. | Mr. and Mrs. Henry Davis of! 312 West 116th street, New York, announce the birth of a boy yes- {terday. Mr. Davis is the son of {Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Davis of this jcity who received notice of the ibirth in a telegram today. weekly. Without Foot Phone 59° 40c See Them At Our Store Or Phone 598 Rest and Canopy u Decea FINAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY That the undersigned © 4th day of M aT sent to the E ef Monroe Ceo final return, ac as Administratrix : assign-| 1 Dated this the A. D. 1936. Sth day of West, when a break in her lubri- — to|s Atlantic | NOTICE OF AFFLECATION TAX DEED jerew had just been removed when) * which | * |received that a coast guard ves- _ Plat 19. 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