The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 20, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO Published Daily THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. ARTMAN, lent H om The Citizen Building H Cormer Greene and Ann Streets un'y Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe ! County. as second class matter Member of the Associated Press «he Associated Press is exclus' t for rept lication of all news dispatches credited to | it or not otberwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub‘ished here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES une Year ..... Six Months Three Months Ine Month .... Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. PE All reading notic: respect, obituary notices, e: the rate of 10 cents a Notices for enter & revenue is to b IAL NOTICE cards of thanks, resoluticns of | te, will be chars cd for at line. tes discus- c al or general st but it W ymous communi- eations. { One way to have business pick up is to do some pick up business. A grass widow is any grass grow under h A classified advertisement is good business if it is i 1serted in The Citizen. Germany moves her cannon to the Rhine to as:ure;the»world that she wants peace. “Tam cu ‘nor Sholtz. It’: remunerative. lof polities,” says Gover- a tough game, but quite A correspondent writing to the Tampa Tribune voices the opinion that a recent election was absolutely honest. That IS news. Fletcher Sees Canal Victory in Senate Vote.—Headline. The aged senator's eye- sight is failing, for it turned out to be a defeat. An Eastern manufacturing firm for- bids using cigarette lighters in its plant, probably fearing one of them might really work some day. WIA workers in Madison, Wisc., are striking for a raise of $12 morthly. They are now receiving $48. Even that is ever so much better than what WPA workers are receiving in Key West. Some one said when Abraham Lin- coln was assassinated that the south had lost its best friend. Peculiarly enough the only states where the moving picture “Abraham Lincoln” showed a profit were Mi:sissippi, Alabama and Georgia. Opporents of the Florida trans-state canal won their victory Tuesday at least insofar as this session of Congress is con cerned. The neers dug a hole big enough to swallow up ‘he $5,000,000. Now a similar sum ¢h@udibe appropriated by Congress to covey’ ip, Athé hole. President Roosevelt has permitting 26 de eral employes yeari mer allowance was 15 days. Part of this money comes trom the pockets of ha d- working employees of small private con- cerns which do not make evough profit te allow a fortnight’s leave with pay. signed a Dill ; ’ by Fed The writer in The S Snith Bros. Covgh Co. is thing but ‘he whiskers. If these were taxed the Smith Bros. undoubtedly would be willing to pay a heavy tax on them, for they are probably the best advertised and as a-conseque the most celebrated hir- sutes of th 1. It was a privilege of the writer to see them advertised in such out of the way place as Bingen, “fair Bingen on the Rhine.” s that the ed for every- a wor Key West, where tax collections have been nothing to brag about and auto tag: are used for more than a year, has turned at last to consideration of a city tax on gacoline and oil to increase its revenue. A brisk fight on the proposed ordinance has been started by oil dealers and The Key West Citizen. Evasion of such a tax would be easy, even in the island city, as motorists could fill their tanks just out- side the corporation limits—Miami Daily News. | to shower down upon us is a “Star Route | will only be a question of time before we AN IMPOSSIBLE MAIL SERVICE At times we are given to wonder if the powers that be ever read the papers, or look at the map of the United States. | forgotten if it was not for the frequency | with which we are handed another lemon. | Apparently there is an impression in | Charleston Chicago Washington that Key West is an inhabited island lying somewhere south of ; the Virgin Islands inhabited by a popula- tion mainly distinguished by un-! a@ “yearning | for bridle paths and a passion for useless 133 i employment. The latest blessing that it is mail service, over a ferry that is designed to transport passengers and which would become a floating insane asylum if it is tated to wait for the mail trains from the | pens es north which are usually from one to eight | Pittsburgh hours late. This arrangement would contribute to our languorous tropical charm, a complete isolation from, any temptation to indulge in prompt and business like prac: | tices . the matter-of receiving and an-| ng communications by mail and d add a tremendous punch to the We Union slogan, “Don’t write; |} wire,” and would be a very real _contribu tion to the prosperity of the telephone and telegraph companies. Under the proposed merchar.ts would lapse into hopeless resig- nation and lovers learn to forget. A letter mailed on Monday in Miami would begin its progress toward Key West on Tuesday, be received on Wednesday answered (if at all) on the same day and, with luck, the reply might be received in Miami on Friday. Or, if by chance, it was mailed on Friday, the bad news would reach us o1 the following Monday. There is just one fine thing about this proposition; it is so impracticable that there is a fair chance that it will arouse a protest that will command attention. If the government can subsidize air mail to Puerto Rico, it seems reasonable to suppose that-it can supply Key West with what the Second Ass promised not later than a few weeks ago; an excellent mail cervice until the “re- sumption of the train service,” a statement which throws some light on the extent te which our present situation i; visualized by the Post Office Department. Of course, we do not propose to hold this public of- ticial to a r. and generous promise; neither do we propose to consent to a “Star | Route” service for a city in which the bus ness of the local post office shows a sub- stantial increase over that done last year | as was stated in The Citizen of Feb. 28. | At this rate of decline in service it} 7 { i } ‘ 1 will be getting our mail addressed, “R. R. 3, Miami, Florida,” and it will take some doing to reconcile us to that. In all seriousness we urge our mer- chants, our citizens, and our civic organ- izations to get busy for once, and write to} our representatives in Washington and, in the strongest possible terms, urge that un- ul we have uninterrupted road communi- cation with .ne mainland, that we have daily air mail delivery for our first class mail matter, and daily service for other! classes over the ferry. The pending cessa- tion of service by the S. S. Cuba, makes this i all the more imperative. You owe it to yours.!{ and to your community to write without delay to your congressman and enator in Washington, ODD CAUSES OF DEATH While death is not usually an amus- | ing subject, the passing of certain citize ha: been attributed to somewhat amusing circumstances, according to a report of the} health department of a Southern state. As certified by local authorities off various counties, these were aynong the} causes of death, according to’the official record: Nervyoustess ‘front giihshot. i Auto hookworm. Fractured skull; contributory, mule. Auto wreck started it; pneumonia ended it. Stab wound of chest, inflicted by lady friend. Hit over head with slop jar. Leakage of head. Frightened to death by deputy sheriff. Rubbed to death by chiropractor. accident, complicated with | { | ‘Stati We might think that we were entirely | Abilene | Atlanta 9 | Lo: j Loui: arrangement j ., ant Postmaster i | Metrop | City, tenor, born in Denark, ; Years ago. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TODAY’S WEATHER-. Lowest } last night last 24 hours | 44 ae - 46 ee . 40 52 24 32 . 54 64 - 32 23 . 38 54 . 32 50 . 54 72 a) z Boston Buffalo Denver Tngtr 54 “4 &4 7 64 82 64 G4 54 62° 34 60 76 68 ille mi Minneapclis - New Orleans 5 York cola Louis co Temperatures* | Highest Lowest Mean ; Normal Mean Rainfall* Precipitation Woon Moon s ececeneccesccoec Epstein of — the e of Technology. , born in Poland. h oof Wisconsin, — t of the Amerigan »x-Interstate Com- born. fat} te years ago! | way 5 iM Melchior of the} New Yor! o%,, Be olitan Opera. |, famed 46 years a: Bcniamino born in It: president of| ing house of Funk & Wagnalls, born in Brook-}j lyn, 53 years ago. Thomas Cochran, member of J. Famous G-E Sealed-in- Steel Mechanism Now Gives You “Double the Cold” and Uses 40% LESS CURRENT The 1936 G-E Refrigerators are now even thriftier than ever. Savings in operating costs of a General Electric Refriger- ator over a cheaper, less effi- cient refrigerator, go on year after year—each month you are money ahead with a G-E. shifting to northwest and north nd diminishing somewhat Satur-} Saturday. we Temp F The Key West é WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p. m., Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Fair ij d Saturday; geolder to- h northwest ‘@nd .north- ihing late tonight. and colder tonight; slowly titing tem- a extreme Straits: est winds onville to Fly south and sout and weather partl turda: northwest and diminishing late ter air weather tonight and WEATHER CONDITIONS The disturbance y the lower M ri Valley day morning in sed some- { in intensity and was central morning over Indiana, Louis- » K 44 inches, The At- disturbance con- northward movement r the St. Lawrence pressure extends ¢ coast south- hich was Texas. ation has been general 4 hours from the southwest- lev to the Elsewhere the rd over the Ohio We Gulf her v ature: ifteen di ates an ssispi fallen five id middle and ra- normal through-| ext of the Rocky “pt Florida where sonal. GOLDSMITH, born this'‘day is a is a a ary. Thete rtain lack of initiative kness of concentration. This and ividing: line be- and a’! careful udy of both . rmining in which direction the be. found. uch depends on the «‘individual s of the birth houty to success may BENJAMIN LOPEZ UNERAL HOME Serving Key West Half Century 24 Hour Ambulance Service Licensed Emba.mer hone 135, Night 696-W i Prices as low as $3.84 per month - puts one in your home. : * Paie ry KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Captain Jack Maher, command- ing officer of Key West barracks is in receipt of an Official com- munication from Lieutenant W. Q. Jeffords, Ir... ,artillery - en- gin With, headquarters at Fort Berea jn .which it is stated the “wi lepartment is desirious | ofrmaking contact’ with leading! newspapers in order that publica- tion may be made of photographs} Walter ‘of military subjects which show to| Bethel, the negro who was cap- jthe people what is being accom-| tured in Key West by the sherift's {plished by the work of the mili-, office has confessed to the crime tary service. Information to be disseminated will, it is believed, be of great news value. During the first part of Feb- ruary, this year, a large gas light- ed buoy broke loose from its moorings on Mobile Bar. in the Eighth Lighthouse District, and was floating with the currents until yesterday when the Tender Sundew made an emergency trip and encountered. the buoy to the south of Key West. The drifting aid was sighted by the captain of one of the P. and O.- S. vessels and a radio sent to Superinten- dent Demeritt giving the informa- tion as to where the buoy was sighted and possible .course of the aid. The superintendent of the Eighth District at New Orleans has been advised of the buoy’s re- covery. : Sheriff Roland Curry returned last evening and’says that convention ‘of sheriffs at West Palm Beach was: a wonderful sue- cess, and will result in much good. to the law enforcement officers o: the state. The splendid showing of. the officers present, Sheriff Curry: said, spoke well for the shrieval- ties throughout the state. One of the reports made by representa-' tive sheriffs from some . counties, showed ‘an average of five mur- der cases at each term of court, while Key. West shows but one in about five years. The sheriff's forces and officers: of the police department in Key ~OO™OOODI DIE III ILS I I. | | 4 TIP LI IOLE PLC EEL ELEN FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1936.= West are keeping a sharp look-ltion of women for business <= cut for the robbers who severaljreern is faverabiy wewed Bs days ago dynamited the treasury in Bahame Idand and) men who are locking for made way with about $50,000 inj“ “ho will support them gold and silver belonging to the} , Colonial government. Mrs. W. Hont Harris received word last evening that her son W Curry Harris, a junior im the University of Florida was i. The! telephone message advised he was suddenly stricken with appendicitis A later message this morning was to the effect he was better and the necessity of an operation had. Smith alias James of murder on which he was ar- rested. He was taken from Key West by a deputy from Miami and on reaching the destination con- fessed to the charge. Until con- fronted with evidence as to his guilt in the person of those whe had seen him commit the deed he had pleaded innocense and said he had not been in Miemi im years. six Editorial comment: The amb: ef WE ARE ALWAYS PLEASED TO MEET AND TO SERVE OUR VISITORS The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Reserve System Member of the Federal Deposit insurance Corporation U. S. Government Depositary City council met = specu ses sion yesterday afterneer with B West Electrx companys whereby arrangements were made for tie apprepriaten of @meunt te be paid the company en an electric ght pel! octetand ing. The meeting was beid at the rquest of Mr payment o uper od BiB L LIL L IM, AAA AAL ALA WHEN YOU BUY THE seochecosere. @ Mos: everyone “takes a chance” once in « while—bet why gamble when you buy razor blades? Probsk Je —made by che world’s largest maker of razor blades, selling at 4 for 10¢—is s biade of kwowm quality. 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