The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 4, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO _The Key West Citizen | plished Da! CTL Joe AREER, Avxbntdne Bas ily, Except. Sunday By EUBLISBING CO., INC, nd Publisher eas Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daity Newspaper in Key West and Monroe county Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of The Associated, Press for republication of it or not otherwise the Asxociated Press is exclusively entitled to use all news dispatches credited to credited in this paper and also the local news published here. One Year SUBSCRIPTION RATES 0 5.00 Six. Months ~ a. Th Months One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPE All reading notic t, obituary not te of 10 cents e. s for entertainment b nue is to be derived are L NOTICE of thanks, resolutions of ete, will be charged for at churches from which cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- f{ public issues and subjects of local or general rest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST = ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. _——_— A word to the wives is not sufficient. “Shot in the line. Filling Station.” Head- That’s the stomach in slanguage. Adam and Eve fell for an apple, and most cf their descendants fall sauce. for apple- “Yes, My Darling Daughter’ will be presented in Miami. Presumably before she hangs her clothes on a hickory limb. There may be a lot of chronic com- plainers around Key West, but this writer has never yet heard any one of them com- plaining about his tax assessment being too low. Isn’t that correct, Messrs. Kirch- heiner and Pinder? Anything may be expected from the CITY ON CASH BASIS | | Under an arrangemént béing worked | | out for city council by Councilman William | H. Monsalvatge, who now is also @ mem- | | ber of Monroe County Commission, | municipal government is operating on a | cash-as-you-go basis. In other words, | | available cash received by the city from | | this time forward will be applied first to | current bills and salary accounts, with any | | balances being applied to old debts. | Included in the program is a complete | audit of the city’s books to determine the | | éxaet amount of floating indebtedness, és- | timated to be approximately $300,000, by a volunteer group of auditors consisting of Col: Louis Brinton, Henty Brewer and Everett Winter, retired businessmen, with | extensive auditing éxperience. When the | audit is completed and the debt deter- | mined, certificates of indebtedness bearing | a low rate of interest over a long period of years will be issued to the credito?s and | municipal employes to cover theif bills and | salaries. These certificates would be re- | | tired from balances over and above cur- rent operation expenses and those that would be retired would be determined by lot. | R. E. rt the city’s fiscal agent, has approved tli general setup advanced by the Councilmén and is expected in the | city shortly to disewss the details with the councilmanic body, Crummer also an- | nounees that some of the cases pending | against the city involving the payment of old municipal bonds aré being settled un- | der the bond refunding program. | These are two important develop- ments—placing the city on a cash basis, with all expenditures carefully scrutinized | by the council, and settling the bond suits in such a maner as to eliminate the neces- | sity of direct taxation to satisfy judgments. Under the first system the city should save | money, pay bills every month, meet the monthly payroll and provide a more effi- cient operation of the municipal services. Under the bond refunding program the annual interest charges are reduced, tax- payers are not confronted with prohibitive taxation to meet court judgments and ade- quate revenue for meeting current opera- tion expenses is virtually assured, the | ¢ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN eecccecosoooooose ! Trumbo Hotel Nears Completion | KEY PdFsccccccccccccceddesddedssdoccccccccece WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Tém Years Ago Today As Taken From Thé Filés OF The ¢ ; P. and O. S. S. Co. has an-; ;mounced daily service from Key ‘ West to Havana, the new sched- ‘ule to be inaugurated at once, with the first sailing today. ; There will also be a boat arriving every day from Havana. Hereto- fore there were no sailings from ‘Key West on Wednesdays or at | 'Phursdays, and no arrivals from, , Navy Tanker Gulf Spray put ' Havana cn Thursdays and Sun-* into this port today to leave a idays. Beginning January 8,! Supply of gasoline at the naval ‘there will be four sailings each| Station. i week frorn Key West to Tampa, " Ppee 5 ns , whicir will be Saturday, Tuesday,|- George E. Spencer, past de- Above is pictured an eirpiane view of the new. Trum- ;Thursday and Sunday. The/partment commander of Spanish bo Hotel and adjacent restaurant and facilities situated 'Steamships Northland and Cuba) War Veterans, will leave tomor- én Frumbo Island and operated by Trumbo Properties, | will take up the Key West-Ha- row for Miami to participate in Iné, ‘ ‘vana run, while the Steamship the joint installation of the Mi- The hotel building and restaurant are completed, the : Cuba will make the run also to ami, Fort Lauderdale and West opening being celebrated New Year’s Eve. R. EB, Freeman! 14™Pa assisted by the Governor ae Beach posts ishecaye will be is manager of the hotel and Al Crespo of the restaurant. | °°” ue BEDE Ory To be conipleted in the next week or ten days will be tennis ‘ The supposed rum boat _re- and horseshoe-pitching courts, a golf driving range, shuffle! ported aground on the Eastern board courts and other sport games. The public will be ‘Dry Rocks from which Captain invited to use these facilities gratis. Docking space is’ Demeritt rescued two men yes- available as well as arrangements for sport fishing with |‘¢tday and brought them to Key any membér of the party boat fleet docked on the F.E.C. | West on his fishing smack, leav> pier | ing two others on the ship, seems to have vaporated into thin air, THREATS OF WAR BRING ON as no trace of it has been found since that time, so far as is def- CONDITIONS AFFECT- ING VALUE fourth day of The Citizen's fif- tieth year of faithful, fair and conscientious service for the wel- fare and progress of Key West. With the ending of the present year this newspaper will have | rounded out a half century of ex- istence. The automobile, which was auc- ‘tioned off yesterday by L. T. Bra- gassa for the Customs Service, was seized at Stock Island some time ago and had been used in connection with the service evér és es ap ieee since. habuhahikeddde dul DECEMBER PASSES JUNE IN MARIAGES. Sine kids over boon known as the movith of mercies. But fer onté; at least, in Key West. December has gone ahead and the marriage rec- ord of fhat month tops that of June by four marriages. Records in the office of County Judge Raymond Lotd show that there were 29 li- cénsés issued from his gffite during the month of June, 1938, But in December the number was 33. There was one marriage licen8é issued yesterday aft- ernoon, which authorized the marriage of Edward Grover Griitiih, of Fort Worth, and | Henrietta Gates, of Key West. The céremony is to be per- formed by Enrique Esquin- aldo, Jr., justice of the peace. V hak hdd hd Jf) DRUNKEN HUSBAND AKRON, Ohio—Charging that Mrs. Annie G. Lane, state presi- dent of the Rebekkah Assembly, is paying.an Official visit to Sparkling Waters lodge and will be present at a session to be held tonight. initely known. The navy boat, which was sent in search of ‘the vessel yesterday, returnd late in the evening and reported no trace of the vessel being found. One of the men. brought ashore is reportd to have Said there was $60,000 worth of liquor on the vessel, and the boat was enroute from Nassau to New Orleans. Captain Demeritt said he did not look at the boat ‘sufficiently to get its name. Captain Demeritt is the only one, so far as known, who got a glimpse of the strand- cd vessel. He did not get its name: The service boat failed to find the craft. Yet there are those who presume to know the name of the vessel, the number | of cases of booze there was on September, a slump of 25 per-: board and the value of the liquor.’ cent, ‘Some even claim to know the This stemmed partly from the name of a local boat which took “révaluation” carried, out by Pre-' the liquor off. | mier Daladier’s deerees, and} partly from the hurried depar-; ture of nervous capital. i The British pound suffered a smaller setback, in terms of the dollar, by slumping from a Feb- | Tuary top of $5.03 7-8 to $4.60 in A negro boy, while playing on the streets of the city today, was struck by the Weech Grocery store truck. The boy was rushed to a local hospitat where it Was said his injuries were not setious. By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—The flight of capital to athe United States during 1938 is vividly sketched by the rising trend of the dollar in terms of principal | foreign currencies. The French franc, for example, ! crashed from a January peak of | 3.40% cents to 2.57 cents at the | time of the Munich settlement in LA CONCHA HOTEL In the Center of Business and Theater Open The Year Arourid Garage——Elévator—Firéproot PSS TRY... a ahd Key West ne Fishing on the Charter Boat “MARLIN” CAPT. FRANK GATES Captain R. W. McNeely, com- mandant of the Key West naval station, who a few days ago left with Mrs..McNeely on board the Houseboat Everglades as guests of Colonel Thompson, returned} September, down nine percent. , | this morning over the Florida’ Editorial comment: This is the WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1939 TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Bo net say. “Rev.” or ed the sermon”: say, “The Reverend Mr. Smith”. — TEST YOUR brought a price of $27. The car! KNOWLEDGE Can you answer seven of these test Turn to Page 4 for the answers 1. How many time zones are there in continental Unit- ed States? Who recently defeated Tom- my Farr in a bout at Mad- ison Square Garden, New York City? In which state are the Cat- skill Mountains? To what English title is the German Herr equivalent? What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word idea? How many stars are in the flag of the Republic of Panama? In which river are the Thou- sand Islands? Which President of the U. S. first occupied the White House in Washington? Who finished second to Har- old “Jug” McSpaden in the recent Miami Open Golf Tournament? Name the three states of the Union that are smallest in area. Subscribe té6 The Citizen. Ask Your Grocer For Strong Arm BRAND COFFEE Serving the Key West trade for over thitty-five years! «t+ From and To -:- Boston, New York, Miami Jacksonville, Galveston New Orleans and Beyond From Key West alternate Mon- om New York every Thurs- 'Y- From Boston every Tuesday. ville, Miami and From Jackson: New Orleans every two weeks. CLYDE-MALLORY ©. E. SMITH, Administration, but that a man whose most outstanding phobia is his hostility towards Weakness in this instance re-. East Coast from Miami. Captain her husband, Abner, had been; i sulted from the unbalanced trade McNeely said there were more drunk since 1897, Mrs. Jennie eo ea business, was appointed secretary of com- merce, can evoke nothing else but a dubious shaking of the head. As a business man the new secretary of commerce, Harry Hopkins, is batting THE GOOD OLD DAYS An interesting document was brought to light during the eelebtation of the éigh- tieth anniversary of the founding of a de- partment store in Chicago. Someone in that organization had preserved the rtiles -000. However, he may turn out to be a hitless wonder, or under the instructions of Coach Roosevelt take a different stance at the plate and really learn how to bat. This column wonders if Cuba has for- gotten or even ever knew that the late Helen Gould Shepard gave $100,000, one of the first of her many charities, to the United States government to help defray the expenses of “freeing” the Pride of the Antilles from Spanish domination. Former Governor Frank Murphy, who defied the law in Michigan during the sit- down strikes, was named attotney-general whose job it is to $ee that the federaf laws of the eovchivanl of the United States\are not violated. “Consistency, Thou Art 4 Jewel,” but rot with this Administration. There is no gambling going on at the Amusement Park except at one point and that is being operated by interests other than the management of the Park. The citizens of Key West wotild be surprised to know who is a beneficiary of this device. It is the duty of the chief of police to close this partictilar place. Verbum sap. Although a municipality is coniposed of persotis; its impersonality is an out- standing feature considered from matty" angles. For instance, most lawyers will not take a case in court against certain in- dividuals. in a community, but ; ywill scramble for a chance:to represent in dividuals in a litigation, diametrically: op» posed to the best interest’ of a city.°)-.;\\) Lakewood, N. J.’has honored Walter Winchell by naming a street after the noted cdlurinist. Lakewood is not a watering place as a Miami newspaper er- roneously stated, but a winter resort and is inhabited predomihantly by wealthy Jews. Winchell himself a Jéw has been giviiig for employees of their first store which read as follows: “Store must be opened from 6 a. m. to 9 p. m. the year around. “Store must be swept; counters; base shelves and show cases dusted. Lamps | trimmed, filled and chiminéys ¢leaned; pens made; doors and windows opened; a pail of water, also a bucket of coal brought in before breakfast (if there is time to do so) and attend to customets who call. “Store must not be opened on the Sabbath unless necessary; and then only for a few minutes. “The employee who is in the habit of smoking Spanish cigars, beiiig shaved at | the barber’s, going to dances and other places of amusement, will surely give his | employer reason to be suspitious of his in- tegrity and honesty. “Each employee must pay not less | than $5 per year to the church and must | attend Sunday School regularly. “Man employees are given one eve- ning a week for courting and two if they go to prayer meeting. “After 14 hours of work in the store, the leisure hours should be sperit most in | reading.” | Who was it heard sighing for good old days!” “the | & issaits “FEMININE DOMINANCE” Mrs. Evelyn Millis Duvall is the éx- | ecutivé director of the Association for | ‘Child Study and Parent Education. The other day she declared, “feminine dominance” in schools is helping to pro- duce “sissies” among boys; “dictatorial or weak-kneed husbands,” “boy-crazy girls,” and last, but fiot least, “man-Hating, over- aggressive women.” This is a serious charge to make | against the schools of the nation, but once in a while, the average citizén has a sus- picion that what Mrs. Duvall says is eor- the Ratzis as he calls the Nazis daily casti- | gations in his famous column, rect. The remedy, as she says, is more én- couragement for men teachers. Biship of this city filed suit for divorce. position and an accompanying ' flight of skitish funds. bpp Co Copyright 1939, LicceTr & MrBxs Tobacco Co, fine yachts in Miami harbor than ‘ever before. ITIZEN—Phone 51 Agent Key Went, Fis. ~Lines 20? bination _@a new Year ant SMOKING PLEASUR;; Make Chesterfield your New Yeat’s resolution ss:they’ll give you more plea- sure than any cigarette you ever smoked. 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