The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 16, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen xcept Sunday By PUBLISHING CO., INO. L. P. ARTMAN, President , Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Published Da Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe c Entered ad class matter IFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republi n of all news dispatches credited to it or not ot vise credited in this. paper and also the local news published here, SUBSCRIPTION RATES une Year eerie é Six Months fhree Months - Made known _on application, SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc., 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. @AMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST fe: ADVOCATED BY THE | : Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. Free Port. Haotelg and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Few can afford +s be angry at anyone or anything. * It is seldom a woman makes a fool of “a man she merely directs the perform- » ance. When a little feliow was asked where do we find mangoes, he naively replied where woman goes, Greek learned in college is useful in enabling the alumnus ‘to remember the . name of his fraternity. : Borrowing Bill says there must be something to telepathy; every time he gets *a few dollars his creditors look him up. It would be fine if clothing makers would sew on buttons with as much zeal as is devoted to the affixing of size and price tags. The world can get peace, probably, ~by giving the “gimmie” nations—Italy, = Japan and Germany—whatever it is they - want, 3 The international topic for today Show long will divided democracies stain themselves against united diétator- Sships? te Advertising in reasonable doses _ is t good for any ailing business, and the medi- -cine works unusually well during this sea- son of the year. The defects of the mind, like those of the grow old. Nature having accomplished her sustain- ing purpose doesn’t need to make the sexes attractive anymore, and abandons them to shift for themselves and make the best of what's left of the mind and body. face, grow worse as we investigation in rampant gambling A recent grand jury iMiami condemned the sin that city, #“bolita” West. gambling it said: “‘It lief that the “bolita racket” pressed with all the vi forcement can produce.” » Which is also prevalent in is this body’s be that law As this colum or en- has often stated, all forms of cheap gambling is to i ational and S It wi keep here in the United States, the liens that now go to Cuba, Mexico and A National would wipe the best way to supy e lotteries. Irish Sweepstakes. lotte honestly conducted, National debt wit out a decade, | attacked him, chasing him into the house and laid particular stress on} Key } In referring to this form of cheap should be sup-|} | THE ANTI-COMMUNISM ALLIANCE What is the meaning of the _ alliance between Germany, Japan and Italy to} fight “communism?” Nobody knows because nobody be- | ! lieves that this is all to the undertakings } entered upon by the three powers and, | yet, it is all that the nations concerned | | are admitting. | Certainly, it means the division of the | great powers of the world into two camps } | with the aggressor group possessing unity of purpose, facility. of action and willing- | : ness to use power to grasp spoils without | regard to the laws of nations or of hu- | manity. In three wide:y separated parts of | the world three nations put on increasing pressure, coordinating their activity in a| way that is not accidental. Germany will move in central Europe, Italy will sway the Mediterranean and Japan will work} the Far East. common front and willingness to risk general war to get what they want. ' There may be people in the world who still believe that peace can be attained by appealing to reason. They possibly think that the peoples of Germany, Italy and “Japan donor want war, that they will up- set, the machinations of their leaders and | pens, the world will eace. Hy y The peoples in the} Phack their govern- ment’s war, They have no opportunity to learn anything that will upset their com- placent acquiescence in the necessity of power politics. Only the leaders know the truth and they believe, today, that their bluff will continue to work. Only when the rulers of these countries realize that | the other nations of the world are ready to i \ ! \ a'| | | fight, if necessary, and have the power to} win the struggle, will they make up their minds to accept peaceful means for the settlement of international disputes. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen { Unlike the famed*“old gray mare,” a Canadian horse named Squire, 23 years old, seems to be just about what he used to be. At the National Horse Show in New York a few days ago the veteran jumper won the Whitney Stone trophy, defeating 35 young horses, the run} Reports that Tommy Manville, eccentric asbestos heir, has about through with his large fortune are denied by a friend, who declares that Tommy is a! shrewd business man and still has suffi-} cient money to pay off the Finnish national | debt “and have enough left over for a car- |, load of blondes.” i A hospital error caused relatives from three states to gather in Brooklyn for the funeral of Mgs. Maria Maggio, 94. When the, casket — opened after its arrival at the} Maggio home it was found that the body was that of a much younger woman, Mrs. Maria Maggiov~“The ‘hospital au- thérities made Prater apologies for the mistake. (4 Be Cc. B. aged 92, divorce, leges that Mrs, ( and he asks for * Cla is suing his wife, who is 77, charging desertion. He also yton is worth $60,000 asonable alimony.” ton of Long Beach, Calif., | for al-} An A, P. dispatch from Tenn., states that when John Wisdom went to investigate a noise in his henhouse a fox | Lafayette, The sewing and biting him six times. animal | jumped on a bed, then to chine, and was finally killed with a poker. | a ma-j Crime didn’t pay in the case of Oscar } | Shires, who was sentenced to from one to two years for robbery Alma, Wis. The crime netted Shires only three cents. Chaplain William B.. Arnold has been u.s| ld is | }appointed chief of chaplains of the 8.} Army by the Presider Father a Catholic, the first of his faith chief of chaplains. He | priest in 1908 and joined 1913. to be made was ordained the Army a Haecker, known Theophilus 1 father of Minnes . recer He retired }Cleare, Wm. jthe committee. j cities further north are that | list of {had her full share of | costing her | spending from $100,000 up. 1 | dreams, | blood poison, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ATTA GIR Minnie! TH’ WHOLE GANG‘S JOININ’ AGAIN ---- ALWAY isT Lik bo! TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1937. Anniversaries 17583—James McHenry, sol-| ‘dier of the Revolution and one} jof the framers of the Constitu-| \tion, ‘Maryland statesman, secre- tary of war under the first two |Presidents, born in Ireland. Died jin Baltimore, May 3, 1816. | Ee We 1 | j | Meigs, Ohio nator, governor, general, born at Sonn, Died at Ma-) March 29, 1824. | 1764—Return J. pioneer, juri land postmast Middletown, rietta, O., 1798—Persifor F. Smith, New Crleans lawyer, noted soldier in the Seminole and Mexican wars,; ‘torn in Philadelphia. Died May} \17, 1858. 1806—Mary T. P. Mann, Bos-| ton edueator and author, wife of } } Behind their activity is their}. —— t @veccvccovccccs KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files «The hottest’ municipal...election in the history of Key West has sed into history. With 4,020 registered, 3,598 votes were , far and away. the biggest ntage ever recorded in the city. Mayor Leslie A, Curry, can- didate to succeed himself, de- feated -President Paul Albury of the city council, by a comfortable margin. Willard Albury, Ambrose A. Freeman, Miss Lena Johnson, Ross Sawyer, and Leo H. Warren, are the new coun- cil members. The list includes six of the seven candidates endorsed and backed through the campaign! by “a citizen’s committee”. Miss ena Johnson, the only woman ever to run for the council or any other public office in the city, won. She was not endorsed by She had not made her announcement when the com- mittee selected its ticket. zi i Of The Citizen \danger that the native will wast tically out of danger today. When the team, of which he was a mem- ber went to Fort Lauderdale last week to play, his physician said he would be able to play. During; the play the sore on his arm was! reopened’ and infection resulted.! By the time he arrived in Key} West he had a high fever, and the, physician said that blood poison! had already set in. Today he shows marked signs of improve- ment. His temperature is much; nearer normal and the physician! expressed the belief that the dan-) ger period has passed. The Society Union de la Cara-| bina ard the young women’s branch of the organization, will hold a meeting at the Cuban Club tonight to plan activities for sane future. Mrs. A. D. Luethi and Mrs.j iJohn Leach left yesterday after-' Speculation is rife in Key West today over the announcement of the coming to Key West ofa group of high officials of the Southern Railway, in a_ spe¢ial train. Every thinker in Key West is trying to figure the sighi- ficance of the visit. Local rffil- way officials know nothing jof what the trip means. is headed by President and is said to include several presidents, members of the board of directors, high passenger and’ freight officials, and supervisors, of transportation. Reports from the party is making its annual pre- season inspection of Florida win- ter resorts. If this is true, it is ‘pointed out that this is the first, time in history that Key West has been included in this survey, Robert F. Spottswood has been; appointed local distributor of mo-| tor vehicle tags for Monroe coun-! ty. His name is included in the those ecommended for the position by W. F. Allen, state! motor vehicle commissioner. | Editorial comment: once more bobs se! Key West; enely up with! something which proves she has good for-} tune. With an era unpre-} cedented aerial activity just ahead, | she is ‘not only ideally lota\ get a lion’s share of that in this section, but she is supplied with a modern flying field without it a penny. For far fields many cities are , local football id to be yester- condition from is satd to be prac- day in dangero ;many, jtry o mm JJAYNES VERMIFUGE) noon to attend the forty-fourth annual convention of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union which is to be held at Coconut Grove. ; The local candidates would have’ gone earlier to be present when! the convention opened, but re- mained over to vote in the muni- cipal election. Today In History eecccvcccccccccencoocece 1860—Woman’s Union Mission ary Society of America, pioneer woman’s foregn mission organi- zation, held its first meeting in Eoston. 1906—The Collegiate School of Yale-in+Jhina opened in Chagsha. 1907—Oklshoma admitted to] Statehood as the 46th State. 1914—Federal Reserve in operation. System 1918—American Army of Occu- pation beging its march on Ger- 3—United States recognizes | Russia. —Letter carriers the c x begin leaving Sage! s Act forms. Sov iet 19 catity Act form i FIDGETING May Mean Worms! | Nervous or delicate children often have Worms—very cowwon in city and co try. Other sigos:—Lroken sleep, bad nausea, grinding of teeth at wight. loss of weight, appetite or color Laxatives don't belp. Get Jayne's Vermi- fuge. Children like it. 45 million sold, Save a little of thy pocket will soon begin to thrive and thou wilt never cry again with jan will “creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor bUpgsp bite, nor will fakedness freeze thee. _whole hemisphere wil pléasure spring up im every corner of thy heart. —Benjamin Franklin. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Member of the F. D. 1. C. income, and thy hide-bound empty stomach; neither The 1 shine brighter, and i 3] Federal Reserve ee a ee ~ | the noted educator, Horace, born ° at Cambridge, Mass. Died Feb. Today’s Horoscope." 1887- Pecccccccsecccccceccoece ‘ | 1827—Charles Eliot Norton, Today is a particularly jJarvard’s famed scholar, authori-! strong day unles bolstered up by ty on Dante and on art, born at other good aspects, and there is - not allowed to wander off into time on unprofitable ventures. yain and illusive projects. If The ambition is good enough, per+ blesSed with means, learn to make! haps a little too elevated, but ‘the geod use>of them and not to mind should be concentrated ‘and chase zephyrs. not ic «Died June 16, 1925. With taxes what they are now- | days a man ort not count his profits "fore they're snatched. SI Larkin has been timpin’ tellin’ everbody thet it wa deer thet Ike Hoskins shot th’ day. other mbridge, Mess. 1208. Died Oct. 21, 1833—Henry Gilman, scientist, Detroit librarian, a noted U. S. consul to Jerusalem, born in Ire- land. Died Jul: 30, 1915. 1849—Edward S. Dana, Yale mineralogist, born in New Haven. THE SMARTEST, SMOOTHEST TRE It only takes one ride to convince the “first-tripper” and seasoned traveler alike that here's transportation that steps up ten years ahead of conventional travel facilities....The Florida Zephyr is the perfect way to enjoy autemn travel... out on the open highways. Fares are only 1/4 the cost of driving an average automobile. 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