The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 14, 1938, Page 2

Tye Key West Citizen | | Published I ly Except Sunday By PUBLISHING CO., INC. . President and Publisher MOE ALLEN, Assistant, Business Manager From. The Citizen Building * Corner Greene and Ann Streets in Key West and Monroe County Only Daily Newspape Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter | Member of the Associated Press | Associated Press is exclusively tntitled to use | ill news dispatches credited to | dited in this paper and also | The for republication’ o it or not otherwi the le fiews publi MEMBER SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 4 Six Months - ‘Three Months One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPE vading notic MAL NOTICE rds of tha » will b ks, resolutions of | charged for at rtainments by churches from which be derived are’5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum nyites discus- sion of lic issues and subjects of local or genera) interest but it will not publish anonymous communi -entions. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—i.and and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. _Dizzy’s Bad Arm Still. Not Well.— Headline. How can anything ill be well? War may not be inevitable, but Am- ericans should remember that it is not im- possible. If every citizen of Key West ‘would give three hours free work every month in the public interest, we would have a better - community, Men show their real character under disappointment and in distress. Anybody can show a lovable disposition when the goose is hanging high. Senator Graham of Miami says only four per cent of the stores there cannot pay their tax receipts. Probably the rest, with the usual exceptions, borrow the money to pay them. » Poast without butter is bad; an egg without salt and pepper is terrible, but a «bathing suit without a girl is deplorable. .=—Times Union. But what is.a girl with- out a bathing suit? Popular? A large business concern in Miami which in the past has claimed it had a few of the well-to-do citizens as customers, now claims, to have 40'to 50. Many Key ~ Westers are shopping in Miami now, but “that conditi n, like any novelty, will soon | visit. Par and wide we are | formally | busines: | office. Another group will not go | the form of 4 circle, | sion of Vermort and Kentucky the number wear ff psgin many instances, goods may he obi inde cheaper in Key West than in | Miami. Russell Kay, all-Florida publicity man, Suggests Key West as the place to spend | this year’s Fourth of July, on account of ‘the monster celebration for the official op- ening of the Overseas Highway. He pro- poses a plan which, like all plans, is faulty. He advises all who wish to make the trip te park the dog and cat with the neighbor and atrange with friends to feed the chick- | ens, forgetting that these neighbors and ! omy rr will want to take in the cele- bration.’ So.what! President Roosevelt warns — against communities sending lobbyists to Washing- ton to plug for some of the coin that the public works administration will turn loose. Monroe County ha: ent vast sums Of money With that object in view and it has gotten us nothing but a depleted tiller. Hitt and Treadway, a legal firm of Wash- ington, received $5,000 from the county cominissioners, and the results have not been satisfactory to anyone so far as The Citizen can determine. No.criticism is due the commissioners; their act was due to an earnest desire to benefit the people of the county, but since experience has taucht thom thet such expenditures further apy woul! censuradie. are usel jons be cor rec KEY WEST NEEDS HELP! Seventeen days hence a horde of | strangers will drop in on us for a three-day distributing inviting thousands to our fiesta opening the Ove Highway July 2-4. There is no question of the suc- of the celebration if the people of Key West do their part and do it well. The Florida Motor Lines, an literature folks from Jacksonville, Tampa and other points. | Twenty-five special buses will be placed in operation between Miami and Key West. Does enyone here believe a well-managed | company would make such preparations if it were not assured of a good volume of 2 4 Yet in the face of this and other re- ports, it is common talk among our own people that the fiesta will be a “bust”. They do not believe it can be put over. under some sort of inferiority complex, they just can’t beljeve it is possible for any thousands of persons to visit Key West during the celebration. These pessimists go further and de- clare the celebration committee is not func- tioning, that the management. is not doing anything to make the affair.a success, They | criticize expenditures ‘for publicity, for | transportation and for! clerical and. other expenses. Some of them state'they cannot support the committee because-some 6f the members supported a certain candidate for along with the committee because some of the members supported another candidate for | the same office. And so on without end— knock, knock, knock. The Citizen has investigated the re- | ports, it finds them without foundation. The general committee is functioning. Sub-committees are out trying to raise | funds, set up a rousing program, build a pageant, clean up the city and so on. Instead of knocks, the committee and | the management need a few boosts; instead | of political bickerings in connection with a non-partisan civic celebration, the city of “Key West needs the active co-operation of | all factions, of all creeds, of all good citi- zens. For the sake of our city, for our fu- ture’s sake, let’s forget everything else to work for the success of the celebration. BIRTH OF THE FLAG On June 14, 1777, in response to a gen- eral demand for a distinctive national flag for the new Republic of the United States, | Congress passed an act providing as fol- lows: “That the flag of the United States be | thirteen stripes of alternating red and white; and that the union be thirteen stars, white, on a blue field, representing a new constellation.” In this flag the stars were arranged in and after the admis- of stars and stripes was each increased to fifteen. In 1818, five additional states hav- ing been admitted, the flag was changed to its present form, thirteen stripes. with: a star for each state. The ‘exact sizé: and ar- rangement of the stars were not definitely | fixed until October 19, 1912: According to tradition, Betsy Ross of Philadelphia made the first flag bearing | thirteen stars and stripes, but there is some uncertainty regarding the origin, as well as the first use, of the new national emblem. Another tradition is that it was first used by the Army at Fort Schuyler, N. Y., Augus 1777, where the flag was made on the spot, white stripes and stars cut from a soldier’s shirts, red stripes from a soldier's wife’s petticoat, with blue field cut from Captain Swartout’s coat. It is also recorded that the flag of John Paul Jones’s ship Ranger, the first evertobe saluted by a foreign fleet, the French, was made from slices taken from their silk dresses by the girls of Portsmouth, N. H., the white stripes being from the wedding gown of a recent bride. In commemoration of the adoption of the flag by Congress, June 14 is celebrated throughout the nation as Flag Day, this ob- rvance having been fostered by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, among whose lodges it was made obliga- tory in 1908. It is most fitting that this oc- cesion should serve to mark a renewal of allegiance to the flag. The “Pledge to the Fi taught and repeated daily by pupils of many schools, is as follows: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and te the Republic for which indivisible, with lib- erty and justice for all,” 3, sands, one nation, astute business ° | organization, reports a number of its buses have been chartered to bring Laboring | THE REY WEST ClTZER | oecccccccccccccccccccces| A TWIRL OF THE GLOBE (Opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily agree with those of The Citi- zen). Sevcceeceseccescooesecns GERMAN-CZECH WAR Once again the world of young men, the world of sweethhearts and wives, the world of parents, look to Czechoslovakia. Ger- many, acquiring again all its ter- ritory lost by ally remapping of Europe at the Armistice, is fast approaching the limits of the ter- ritory she may take over. She cannot go much beyond the lim- its of the Sudeten Czechoslovakia boundaries. It is to be doubted if she can even invade that scetion. Although that slice of territory is }German, and is at present suf- {fering greatly from economic theft of its industries and block- ing of trade routes to Germany, Czechoslovakia is not expected to allow even that. The recent mu- | nicipal elections over the Ger- |man-Czech section gives Konrad | Henlein, that section’s party lead- |er, the right to speak the Sude- jten Czechoslovakia mind, and that is anschluss with the German | Reich. War is the only alterna- tive‘ to fice of the territory, \ it appears. | REBELS ADVANCE | RAPIDLY Valencia lies but 40 miles be- ;fore the advancing Spanish Rebel ‘forces, who are nearing the sight of the sea after months of fight- ‘ing in the hills sloping to the locean. The break in the Loyalist lines has been in the last three | days. Franco now holds about 70 | miles of coast from the Ebro river fup to Castellon. |is taken, 40 more miles will be ladded to his holdings. Already |the railroad lines between Cas- tellon and Valencia have been! bombed and cut to prevent any | {communication with the area! | north of Valencia on the coastline. | ERRATIC JAP BOMBERS Sharp rebuke came from Ad-| miral’ Harry E. Yarnell, com- {mander of the U. S. warships in | the Yangste river, who was asked | by Japan to withdraw the vessels or paint them an easily discerni- bie color, but refused to do either. Japan does not trust the military discipline of her aviators. She has rape of Nanking and the pervert- ed abnormalities which her sol- diers committed there. Too, she does not wish to anger the power and money of the United States, | especially not as this time when | the war, while progressing still in | her favor, is not proceeding as well as it might wis In the war sector, pouring rain has made rivers and mud fields of the ter-| jadvancing slowly through the j mud and water. They are start- | ing a warship attack on the lower | | Yangste. The drive is toward | China’s capital, Hankow. | SICK RAILROADING Having put the wage-hour bill very nearly through, Congress has had brought before it a re- quest for legislation to prevent dangerous economic —develop- {ments in the railroad industry. This will delay adjournment an- other week, it is feared. The trouble seems to be, thé railroad eompanies say, that R.F.C. grants no loans, without inferstate com i merce commision frais red tape in the protest of ‘rail read reorganization and no fed- unemployment compensation ystem for the industry. That the railroads are in very bad shape i well known, but just what is the |cause and its remedy is a com- plexly masaeratedt ee METHODIST APPOINTMENTS At the Methodist state confer- ence in Lakeland, Fiorid pastoral appointments were by Florida Bishop Hoyt Dobbs. Florida Southern Col- lege’s President Ludd M. Spivey was reappointed. Key West's Shuler Peele was transferred to Winter Garden, but Joseph Te and O. C. Howell are to remain Island City DeSOTO HOTEL Sarasota Florida Vacation Land OPEN ALL YEAR EUROPEAN PLAN All Outside Rooms Quiet, Clean, Good Beds Free Parking \ $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 single + $1.50, $1.75. $2.00 double La Verse, Apartment 396 So. Osprey Ave. , Rates When Valencia | .| and said he full remembrance of the horrible | KEY WEST in TODAY’S COMMON DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Tickets to Cuba from all parts of the United States will cost one dollar less on and after June 28 at which time the stamp tax gen- erally known as the war tax will be removed. This tax was assess- ed as an emergency measure and has been added to all tickets to foreign countries since that time. It w i by a recent con- gressional ure which be- effective on June 28. The 5 to apply’ on all tickets osting $10 or more so that it could only be applied to tickets first-class to Havana. The same act removes the war tax on tick- ets for transportation to Canada and Mexico, it War Department has ap- 1 the Monroe county plans bride over Snake Creek cling. Windley and Long an Associated Press sent out from Washing- permit, county: officials as repeal come tax w The prov for a conn Ke dispat ton. Th explain, was not for'‘¢orgtfuttion _ 1¢ bridge proper. . kt, ifine i 1 two ‘years ‘ago'and’ is’ ae feet Jong. The,’ pres concerns’ the: placing: of. a Macc | truss span midway"df, the)strue- ture to replace, wooden construc, tion at this point.’ "It was install ed some months ago. The struc- ture connects Windley Key with Plantation Key, which was for- . merly known as Long Island and is still so designated’ on the gov- | erment maps. Richard Griffith Roberts, an Englishman, charged with the | embezzlement of $43,000 in Cuba, | we captured in Atlanta, Ga., by Captain Joaquin Bevault of the Havana judicial police, who pass- ed through the city this morning | enroute to Havana with his pris- loner. Roberts was, until recently, president of the Can Braugar | Sugar Company in Cuba. When | a shortage of $43,000 in the funds discovered, he fled to Ameri- At the station this morning admitted his guilt wasted the money | ca. | the prisoner | gambling. Shipping Board Steamer Totant | arrived ‘in port this morning from | Manchester, England, enroute to | Galveston. The steamer was in |collision. with the Steamship | Charles E. Hoard, off Rebecca Shoals just a short time before ire aching this port. The Totant is in a leaking condition but the ship’s pumps have the situation | well in hand. The vessel is in command of Captain McGlandry ritory and Japanese soldiers are} and at this port is consigned to Porter Dock Co. The other ‘1 proceeded to her destina- the v tion. Editorial comment: There are companies which will dig for wa- ter here and will pipe and sewer the city if ter found, all without inv ment on the city’: part. All this would seem to be the solution of the water prob- lem. is Young Fernandez, Key West's pecdy flyweight,:: and’: Baby Ri former mitt ‘Slinger bf thi city, but recently of Tampa, have: been booktd ‘for a 1trougd go! at the Athile tie Club.on.the night of duly A.) Y The usual Friday night: dance will be given morrow n cial program of dance an orchestra of 10 piec: music by has been | 0 a EVERYBODY IS INVITED to attend a meeting at the PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDING WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, at 8 P.M. to hear MR. M. M. PARISH State Director of Federal Housing Administration give a leeture on the F. H. A. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member Federal Reserve System Member Fede-al Deposit In- surance Corporation at the K..€. Hit to?) ht at 8 o'clock. A spe- | ERROR Enunciate may be pro- mounced e-nun’-see-ate or e-nun’-she-ate. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to Page 6 for the answers SOSCSSHSSOSSSESESESSOSOOT= 1. What is the name of the Japanese art of self-de- fense? Name the member of the President's cabinet recent- ly married in Dublin, Ire- land. What is’a pyrheliometer? In which mountain range are the Green Mountains? Are sweepstakes subject to income tax? Can Mexicans be naturalized in the United States? What is a chiromantist? How many quarts are in one peck (dry measure)? Which is the longest state in the Union? Is the Canadian gallon dif- winnings | Wednesday; ferent from the U. S. gal-| lon? 1 ft To popularize Florida water- ways'and'ehcourage their greater use by pleasure -craft, the Flor- Waterways Congress will ‘stage a Series of Orange Box Re- ugattas’ for boys and girls who build and sail official sailboats, constructed at a total cost of not to exceed $27.00. arranged and a number of origin- al novelties will be introduced. Ferry Boat Estrada Palma ar- rived in port last night from Ha- vana with 12 é¢arloads of pineap- ples, which have been unloaded and will be transferred to refrig- erator cars and sent north to dis-' tribution points. T. A. Roberts, wanted in Fort Myers on a charge of issuing worthless checks, was placed in jail this morning and is awaiting the arrival of the sheriff of Lee county, who is enroute to get the prisoner. BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME —with——. Modern Tile Floor and Wainscot’ In Bath, Kitchen, Porch Sanitary, Decorative, Colorful Cuban Tile, Resilient Tile, Marble Terrazzo. See— Overseas Tile Compa: 706 White Stree TALE LLLAELLE DA } | “THE WEATHER Temperatures Highest Lowest Mean Normal Mean Rainfall" Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation “Phix record covers 24-! ending at & o'clock thix Tomorrow’s Almanac Sun rises Sun sets Moon rises Moon sets Tomorrow's Tides A.M. High 10:56 Low 4:15 Barometer 7:30 a. m. toda: Sea level, 30.02. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Wednesday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with scattered thundershowers moderate 77) 82 82 -0 Ins. winds, mostly easterly. Florida: Partly cloudy, scat- tered thundershowers in central: , portion tonight extreme or Wednesday and south portion Wedn y. Jacks nville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate north- easterly winds over north portion and moderate mostly easterly winds over south portion; partly overcast weather tonight and Wednesday, widely scattered showers. in The Stuart Daily News reports negotiations under way for the purchase of the 10,000 acre Bris- bane estate in Martin county. Large Everglades operators, it states, are expected to take over and develop the property at an early date. AUTO AND DRIVER - i New York, serve EACH ADDITIONAL PASSENGER .. TRUCKS—ACCORDING TO SIZE WHO KNOWS? (See “The Answers” on Page &) 1. Did Mayor La Guardia, of in the World War? 2. Is there any area is the S. threatened with dr year? 3. Has Japan upon China? 4. Is Chiang Kai-Shek a munist? 5.. Do farmers vote upon the application of crop quotas? 6. Does President Roosevelt wear braces to assist him in walk- ing? 7. Does the United States con- template naval or air bases near Alaska? 8. What party has the Jarg registration in Pennsy ia? 9. How long h ecretary U. ought this declared war a Com- - Wallace been a Democrat 10. When will the new “spend- ing-lending” program get under- way? searenesccessecescosases Today’s Birthdays John McCormack, er, born in Ireland, famed sing- 54 years ago. Dr. Chauncey S. Boucher, presi- dent of West Virginia University, born in Chicago, 52 years ago. Most Rev. John J.» Glennon, Catholic archbishop of St. Louis, born in Ireland, 76 years ago. Frederick Williamson, presi- dent of the New York Central R. R., born at Norwalk, Ohio,, 62 years ago. Frederick M. Feiker, secretary of the Ameri neering Council, born at Northampton, years ago. executive ran Engi Washington, Mass., 57 SB ie The New Oo OL. 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