The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 19, 1938, Page 2

PAGETWO ~ 2. The Key West Citizen tuk CHIEN BORLISHING. LP. ARTM. Pi “Pubiiane 5 AN, Pren Publisher JOH ALLEN, Asilntant Business Manager Krom ‘The Citizen Building Corner Gréene and Ann Streets day By Only Daily NewSpaper in Key West and Monroe County Hutered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press +he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credite, the local news published Ian ay Vere. bix Months Three Months . One Month - Weekly ADVERTISING KATES Ma@e krown ou application. SPEC All reading notice respec, obituary no of 10 cents @ Ui NOTICE of thanks, resolutions of . will be charged for at ts are 5 cents # line. yam and invites discus- public issues and subjects of local of general est but it will not publish anonymous communi cations. tizen is an Yes, the Japs are still civilizing China. Whee, “H8tnything, ‘has | becontl! of fine Victor! #iimanuel of Italy? ean, t Gs sane Bntlf?"American seaports Fieam that the Navy Ys considering the es- tats ‘bf a naval base in Puerto Rico. Why not re-establish the inactive one in Key West? F P Asked by reporters for a statément about world conditions on his return from Europe, J. P. Morgan parried with “You never get into trouble until you volunteer statements.” A few years ago a movertient was on foot to present a new City Charter to the citizens of Key West but failed. With Representative B. C. Papy in harmonious in thig;paper and aispj| tf only 65)jofi the 375, by churches from which | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN BENCHES AND BUCKETS a a - * For the convenience of residents and visitors; thé city somé time ago provided | a grand total of 875 benches in the public | parks; for fire protection of the wooden! THIS LITTLE PARAGRAPH | bridges remaining in the Overseas High- | will occasionally be devoted. to | way, the county not long ago placed a con- |strange nicknames given fisher- siderable number of water buckets at con- | venient points. | Last week a check made by Mrs. Eva Warne?, park supervi jsach as: Wicky Jack, Copperlips, | Old Ropes, Charlie Turbot, Half | Cracked, Billy Pork, Seven Pieces of Pork, Tainted Pug, Broken Fid- ; Rain. in the Face, Tommy Si, . Tunkey, Major Bowes | Filer, Lowell Thomas Key, Wal- Het Winchell Smith ‘and ‘Texas |Curty. Did you know that a | lottery is tun in Miami in Key |West ni¢knames? You go in | parks. Mrs. Warte able to learn where tl _ tak@i’ of Who took them, but they may have been taken at. | tines “by persons who felt that the be safely kept if they weré placed in their own yards.” That may be as good an explanation | as any, but it séems to The Citizen that the | place for park benches is in thé parks, not in private yards. H the benches ate not | soon found and réturned where they be- long, the matter should be put in the hands | of the police department. It certainly | should not be difficult for the police to | find 310 park benches. They take up quite a lot of room and would be difficult | to hide. Unless they have been chopped pano, jacks, mackerel, kingfish. up for firewood or playfully tossed lear ees a ee zt Me | the ocean by some of out justly fanrous , °° “Bip 7 | practical jokers, the benches should be lo- Wie fait onves en oe ; cated and returned to the parks ‘Whéré) in the form of sardines and small | they belong. |fish and the grouper and other ee eef fish whieh stay here year | In regard to the aisappenrarel bt [around suddenly devélop vora- about half of the water buckets fi the ‘cious appetites after a lean sum- ; " " |mer and bite much faster. wooden bridges, the general opinion is leingtidh subtly _arvive that they were removed by fishermen for | about Nov. 15. bait containers, It would be hard to trace | te pautLY Limes a water bucket, so the only thing for the leateh of leeds ‘wail repoltad county commission to do is to provide |py the Demeritt boys. With others. This is being done, according to DUKE BOWEN and GEORGE reports, | BROOKS along as spectators, 600 Several times within the last few |Pamas of ihe, wilt scck’ Sev weeks four of the wooden bridges have jeral big jewfish, another year- been saved from destruction by fire round Tish, were caught within Seiad the: chance arrival’ of toviata the last two weeks. Six jewfish t 8! le chan 1 OF motorists weighing 1,200 pounds came in who fought the flames with the water jon one catch. Last week two buckets provided by the county. Any Key West fisherman removing one of the ‘nickname on it. If you can say name you get double or more }than your monéy. Many water- front persons have never been known by other than their nick- | hames. |. BUT FIVE KINGFISH have been caught thus far this season. délicious steaks are made were immédiately purchased by Post- |master SAM HARRIS from the |Demeritt Brothers who caught ‘them. The fish which “winter” | | | The here |small 50-pounders were brought hin. _THE ISLAND CITY: Along the Waterfront a group, each with a Key West the réal name behind the nick- | ese toothsome fsih from which | in Key West are such as pom-, -men to tell you whéfe their secret | fishing spots are: those spots are | guarded closer than the famous} ieipes are handed down from |father to son. A “bar” |best fishing spot, that is where ‘there is a rocky bottom. That’s ‘a favorite hangout of the fish. Then the big shoals and _ reefs, which are sunk in soft mud, ate; is the} | and grass spots are no good. { THE SPONGERS are ready to! leave any day for their “Christ- | mas” trip. There are about 50/ boats operating this season—; many more than last year. The Charter boat fleet will be larger also. The Thompson Fish Com- pany kingfish and mackerel fleet ; iis being overhauled for the win- | ter. All king and mackerel fishers | go down to Marquesas about 30) miles from here and then run two hours west into No Man’s; Land from the atoll when they will begin striking kingfish. Five thousand pounds is a good day’s catch, although thousands of} pounds over that mark Have been taken by one boat in one day. It’s ja dangerous and rough stretch of ; ‘water. It’s where the Gulf} ; Stream meets the Gulf of Mexico ‘and the water literally boils up from the 120-foot depth. ; Just{s | beyond the stretch are long;teach- | ing quicksands into which..a,ship * ! disappeared just a year or_so ago going down slowly: I THE LAST TWO WEEKS has |Pevealed poor weather for fishing and the fishermen have had a jhard time getting fish. The | “grunt” fishermen, who go out in \their small 14-18 foot sail and |tiny motor boats and fish North- west Channel for the famous and} delectable grunt usually haul in |about 20 dozen grunts in a day’s catch. Recently they won’t re- jveal what they’ve been Sichegieaae | DID YOU EVER see a_king- |fish de-hooker? A board has a |piece of heavy wire jammed through it. When the fish is ,caught the line is placed on the | wire and the fish will wiggle it- “fODAY'S. COMMON ERROR men along Key West’s waterfront, }recipes of chefs, and like the re-| T E s TY 0 U R KNOWLEDGE these te Page 4 for the answers lother good spots. Exposed mud! i! What-is“the'name of that! i ‘branth of the social scient- y es whieh. deals, with the organization, and life of the state? Which..country suffered the heaviest casualties during the World War? Who won the men’s Nation- al Singles Tennis Cham- pionship, recently played at Forest Hills, N. Y.? What is a concertina? Name the tallest of all mam- mals. With what sport is the name Johnny Revolta associat- ed? What is the average life of pet dogs? What is the correct pro- nunciation of condolence? Of which country is Lisbon the capital? ,seecce Under which department of the federal aoe jént is the Food aid Drug Ad- ministration? 9. 10. ececcccccosevcoveceseees® arog is laid down consider that erly winds Yoday’s Birthdays! ©@ | boundary lines, obviously it is a portion tonight. Dr. John H. Finley, eminent N.Y. Times editor and former educator, born at Grand Ridge, Tll., 75 years ago. Fannie Hurst of New York, not- ed author, born in St. Louis, 49 years ago. Rev. Samuel G. Trexler of New York, noted Lutheran clergyman’ and leader, born at Bernville, Pa., 61 yeats ago. Dr. Walter B. Cannon, Harvard | physiologist, born at Prairie du) Chien, Wis., 67 years ago. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER.19, 1938 | eoecccccccooecccooooocce | lees ebddocdsccccoscoce j RE PARK | Editor, The Citizen: | .In the editorial column of The! | Citizen for Monday, October 17th, ; | appears a paragraph which I take | |the liberty to consider calls for; ‘correction, in the event by “As-} |sociation” reference is made to; |the Everglades National Park As- | | sociation. + « Neither this Association of the lades..National Park Com- in have any authority con- g the area for inclusion o rglades National Park ‘ject. This is a matter the De- partment of the Interior in Wash- ington has to do with. The purpose of the Everglades Nationai Fark Association is to |promote interest and furnish in- } formation having to do with this} National Park project, and the province of the Park Commission is to procure the lands not other-, wise acquired within the pre- \seribed Park area. If the writer understands cor- ‘yeetly, the Everglades National Park will be established if and jwhen the State of Florida turns over in fee simple to the Federal {Government the area authorized for Park inclusion; with “minor” (modifications in the prescribed 'Park boundary lines subject to adjustment ween owners and :the Gover Tf the -. the State of \Florida want the Everglades Na- tional Park, the way is open for, its establishment. If the people ‘of the counties wherein the Park; i } \ 4 their county interests call for modifications in the authorized | matter to be taken up with the | Federal Government. It has been previously, repeut- | edly recommended by this Asso- | ciation, and is again urged, that; | Monroe County, which is the only jone of the three counties con-| ;cerned registering opposition to thé authorized boundary lines, ‘appoint through an authoritative | source a committee to investigate | this Park project from the stand- | | point of Monroe County interests; | | this committee to be composed of ; members so selected that all in-' terests concerned are represent-! jed. Every citizen of Monroe) SdeCEecccorcccccsd Temperatures* Highest —.. Lowest Mean . Normal Mean 84 76 80 2 Yesterday’s Precipitation 0 Ins, Normal Precipitation -26 Ins. °This record covers 24-hour perio endimg At 8 o'clock this morning. © Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises —- 6:28 a. Sun sets . 5:56 p. Moon rises - 3:46 a. Moon sets —.-.. 4:05 p. Tomorrow's Tides AM. High 7:32 7:39 Low asta keene Oe 1:5 Barométer 7:30 a. m., today: Sea level, 29.90. WEATHER FORECAST ma m. m: m. PM (Till 7:30 p. m., Thursday) Key West and Vicinity: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers tonight and Thursday; moderate “to fresh northeasterly winds. Florida: Mostly cloudy, scat- tered showers in east and ex- treme south portions tonight and in south and east portions Thurs- day; slightly warmer on éast-cen- tral and éxtremeé southeast soasts tonight. i 2 to ‘lorid la Straits: : d nd weather with scattered’ showers Thursday and@\ possibly over south From and To Boston, New York; Miami Jacksonville, Galveston New Orleans and Beyond buckets is endangering the city’s only | JUST TRY to get these fisher-|self off the hook. present connection with the mainland. | Every citizén of Monroe county must do all in his power to prevent destruction of the bridges until the railroad viaducts of | concrete are utilized by the state highway department. WHAT CAUSES COLDS? alignment the effort this time undoubtedly County is entitled to the Tecom- | will succeed. Let us hope so. , Clyde M. Reed of Parsons,|mendations of such a committee |, From Key West alternate Mon- Kans., new: r publisher and/after a thorough investigation of | ce poeta mci in Champaign ‘the entire subject has been made. | een New York every Thurs- Co., Ik, 67 years ago. | Respectfully yours, Pe ane Kj . bases cs | ERNEST F. COE, | From Jacksonville, Miami and Lewis Mumford, noted author |Director, Everglades National New Orleans every two weeks. and critic, born at Flushing, N. Park Assn., Inc, j Y., 43 years ago. j October 18, 1938. (CLYDE-MAL RY Se ea ee 1 Ge cael Hundreds of bonés of pre- | Lavender water is made by dis- | ia (772) been | solving lavender oil in diluted al-| Key Went. Fis ‘cohol. ad TSSOP POPOPOPPOOAPP OOO LLELL LLL 1x3 Better Flooring “The Flooring Supreme” EVERY PIECE BEAUTIFULLY GRAINED 6,000 feet to go at this bargain price .. (Regular Price $75.00 Per M.) oe SMALL LOT OF 2x4 AND 2x6 SHORT LEAF FRAMING This week only... : $4000°Per MS ” “oveed & EY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY —- Happenings Here Just fea Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen — When Key West secures one outstand- } K ing and wealthy individual who will be- come interested in the city and make it his home, the beginning of a fine and prosper- ous residential city will have been made. Birds of a feather flock together. ye Assistant Secretary of War Johnson says the United States is better prepared for war today than at any time in her his- tory. Even so, Uncle Sam is not picking on anybody, though there is provocation enough in Mexico, where that government is expropriating American property with- out paying for it. ’ j ins C. Singleton, who has con-}Key West, following a brief.meet-! § tributed articles from time! to}ing in the court house. Thejhistoric elephants have b time on Key West and the Flor-|plans include a tremendous auto- found in the Texas Panhandle. ida Keys, and published in The |mobile parade, occasional min- ebeunpoal Citizen, was an arrival here last; ute speeches and enthusiastic ac- night on a brief visit. Speaking | tivities of all kinds. It is expect- of his visit, Mr. Singleton gaidjed that the business meeting will that a good will delegation from | be finished at 8 o’clock when the |the Miami Ad Club came down | motorcade will start. All Demo- \to see Key West as guest of the crats desiring to have their cars |Lovell Bus Line last night and | in the line are requested to be at | departed this morning, all of them j the court house at 8 o'clock. \charmed, as is the custom with; |the hospitable citizens they had| Editorial co! _Practically every président of Key West experiences the disagreeable, com- mon cold and there ate many peoplé who have them with more or less regularity during the year. Such sufferers should be interested in the recent suggestion that it is possible that the cause of this scourge is a diet de- ficient in vitamin A. th f if th h |met during their brief stay. Thi t of cmnnyetiwtiny OF) For t in ‘ormation 0 t] ose who wish met ring eir brie! \y. is ment of commerce announces a’ to te ae, amit ia 2 a 4 butt morning George A. T. Roberts, | simplified practices are being 0 now | us vitamin 18 ounc m utter, |genial and interesting compan-, used by restaurants. But boat- whole milk, yolk of eggs, spinach, lettuce, ion, was drafted to accompany} ing house hash has lost none of celery leaves, turnip tops, beet tops, and the guests on their sight-seeing, its complicity. * : A tour of the .cit id expounded ; EER radish tops. It is also to be found in car- | on the merits of the town as only | AbRearing in today’s issue of rots and sweet potatoes, yellow corn, liver, |a Key Wester could. It was’ Catt eae i the Fae of dis- kidney and sweetbreads. : great trip to the city on the com- | Qualified voters. ese names ie rdl f heth aft fortable buses of the Lovell Com- i have been stricken from the rolls gardless of whether you s@ er | pany and their visit was a revela- | 85 made up by the supervisor's from commo: or not vitamin A is n ‘olds i tion to the group among whom books, at a recent meeting ®f the necessary to cn aintenanhee of your zen- ere some of \e tridst influentiay | county commissioners. ‘The com- ‘7 r | i arnt a a 9 ission ll meet «Mond: {| eral health. Itis particularly vital forjehil- |™°" '" ami we {mikes wi jay | dren, who become susceptible to ceftain | spigot’ ‘night to restore all namés' which Coming all’the way from his|have been improperly.” stricken infectious disease if they have it in insuffi- cient amounts. Is théré any reason why non-tax- ‘payers, particularly those known to be tax dodgers, should not be deprived of the privileges and protection accorded prop- erty owners who do pay their taxes? The » virtue of tax paying may be its own re- : #ward, but there is further satisfaction in ig those*pemifizedwho disdain that | grirthe to ebail [is bas ytenidze> * e ~ Mee vie o-—oO The above firticles are offered for cash only ‘at ‘these prices. . This week only. 0) 1-4” Fir Graisied Sheetrock, Sizes 4x9 and 4'x10’ A beautiful Natural Grain Fir Wallboard now selling for $50.00 Per Thousand Sq. Ft. (Regular Price $70.00) 4.8” WalaatGrsined Sheetrock, Sizes 419" and 4x 10° A beautifal Wallboard for Offices, Libraries, Spare Rooms, Ete. Now selling at $60.00 Per Thousand Sq. Ft. (Regular Price $80.00) 9————__9 In Buying-- Don't Forget Our Lumber Is CERTIFIED LONG LEAF FLORIDA YELLOW PINE o~-O Use Grade Marked Lumber—You know what you get when you buy. SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING White and Eliza Streets Phone 598 “Your Home Is Worthy ¢ The Best” 1 i an Bo give-away... IALLALLLLALALLLALL an President Roosevelt for a third term. They | say that “bread comes before tradition.” | __ The ery of the old Romans was “Panem et circuses,” so they demanded even more | than those on relief tcday, for _ besides | bread, entertainment was asked for good | measure. i home in Fairhaven, Massachu- | from the rolls. setts, to visit his old-time friend, | ; + 3 *, Eugene Salis entertained aj the late Dr. J. Y. Porter, Sr., John | number of his friends with a par- | ity last night at his home, 315) i It was a Hallo- we'en party with any © features pertaining to the holiday being rey Tee am J HOUSING BOARDS TO AID LOCAL PROGRAMS visited my old friend in 1926”,| jsaid the aged visitor, “but this " e time will have to go back home et Wes wer ott wie without seeing him”. Then said! nq the booby prize went to Mr. Bryant, “Sixty years ago 1) Gieyeignd Henriquez. went through a great y- ‘low fev-} er epidemic in Key West. Dr. | Fire department was ¢alled out Porter was then a young man | jast night by a small alarm turn- just starting in life”. Three de-'eq in at the corner of Virginia cades ago Mr. Bryant was sta- | ang Simonton streets, Box 32. The tioned in Key West as a sergeant blaze was found to be only grass in the army. At that time he ; Guitteell th Os and burning at the Convent grounds. formed the friendship which has lasted through half a century. “I am so sad today that I could © DeSOTO H [back home if I could catch a boat, | guess that I will wait until 373 Main St. Sarasota, Fla. ionday and take the Mallory ‘“ * Vacation. Land ... Line back to New York”. For the | +. OPEN ALL YEAR a past 30 years Mr. Bryant has been ; a county commissioner in his} EUROPEAN PLAN All Outside jhome county, and said he had to aunt 2 Rooms war a Parking (St. Petersburg Times) Sixteen states have established, state housing boards designed to aid public dnd private enter- prise in developing low-rent housing programs. Among states whose boards have been par- ticularly active in promoting the housing develop- ments are Tlinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York. Some of the more recent boards do It is said that everything has its pur- pose in life, and this column has often asked what justifies the existence of the! mosquito. In Memphis, Tenn. 300 patrents suffering from paresis will be subjected to the bites of the malaria-carrying mos- | not have powers of supervision’ over limited- quito, anopheles quadrimaculatus, the | dividend projects as did the earlier boards. Their most virulent variety, in the hope of af- | functions are limited to research and assistance to fecting cures. If success attends this ex- ! Wéal'housing authorities, periment; we will take back all the things Among the ‘functions and possibilities of the we have said about the mosquito. i} statd boards as exemplified-by;the experiente of New York, a leader in-this mévément, the board should obtain complete information as to rural and urban housing conditions throughout the state 80 a8 to be in a position to recommend immediate and long-range programs for the treatment of conditions, and for the prevention of new, un- IZ IJIZLIZILZIZILLI LPL Lee od oe Human life is taken by the courts on purely cireumstantial evidence, but depre- dations and incursions on the rights of citizens, unless the evidence is overwhelm- ing, leaving not a scintilla of doubt, are- waved aside, and the charges dismissed as desirable conditions. Young Men’s Democratic Club of ‘unwarranted. For what purpose are the, Urban and rural housing surveys, campaigns (Greek spongers in Monroe County waters? | fot the demolition of uninhabitable buildings, con- [PA CONCHA ‘o glide over the silvery surface and | ducting of local educational housing programs, | tm the of the veath the ozone Iddén air for their and enactment or revision of building codes ot re ith? Justice is pictured as blind; some-_ other laws restricting the activity of local housing es she is ‘plain dumb. | groups, ate proper state functions, get back to oversee the building of some roads. i A spettacular demonstration | Free will be staged tonight by the pose, | $1.25, $1.50, pp md i $2.00, $2.25, $2.50 : Vesmessdeerivitiatsrrvionst aD Ld