The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 10, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen ily Exes PUBL hy itizen ding Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Yea Bix Thre One M Weekly “ ths Months nth ADV known on RATES Made NOTICE f thanks, resolutions of SPI e, Will be charged for af | f 10 cents a line HIGHWAY OBSTACLE REMOVED At long last, Monroe county has reached an agreement with R. C. Perky | whereby he gives a 200-foot strip of land through all his properties from Dade county to Key West to be used for exten- sion of Overseas highway and for a water pipeline via the old road bed and viaducts | of the Florida East Coast railroad. The cost involved in reaching this set- | tlement is high, but under the circum- | Murphy act. for entertainment by churches from which } r e is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citize: n of publ ues and subjects of local or general an open forum and invites discus- | est but it will not publish anonymous communi- | 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. In courtship, a man runs after a girl until she has caught him. It is impossible to dodge all the laws | in this country. There is the fellow’s in- laws, for instance. An exchange says: “Bob Hunter bit himself badly when he sat on his false teeth the other day.” When airplanes are safer than auto- | mobiles, the air age will be at hand; but | that is a long way off. There is no telling what a jury may do, but if forced to hazard a guess it is fairly safe to bet on an acquittal. It’s a well-organized force that works as hard and conscientiously when the boss is away than when he is present. Why is it that a woman always lowers her voice when she asks for something and | raises it if she doesn’t get what she wants. | Newspapers are hard hit and_ short | lived under the whip of dictatorships. In | Prague, one of the world’s oldest news- papers, which boasted an age of 259 years, ceased publication last week, as a result of | the Munich settlement which put Czecho- | slovakia under the thumb of Hitler. The first Indians Columbus in the New Ciboneys of Cuba. In the now extinct Ciboney tongue the tobacco plant was called “cohiba,” but when a cigar was of- fered the Spaniards by a native the offer | was usually accompanied by the expres- sions of “tabaco,” believed to mean, “Will you smoke?” encountered by | World were the If the government would loosen up! and take advantage of the buildings, | equipment and harbor in Key West—and | the government has spent millions on the outlay—there would be no need for WPA | in that quaint city, and prosperity would | again return to a town that deserves it.— | Friday Night. You do not expect business | acumen of this Administration, do you? Every progressive movement has its” advantages and disadvantages affecting | some people. The Eastern route of the! Pan-American highway, first advocated by The Citizen many years ago, will detract | considerable tourist business from Florida | in the years to come. The republics to the | South of us will be the gainer, and Mexico, because of its proximity to the United States, particularly, will be advantageously | afiected. The Land of the Montezumas has the climate and many natural ad-}| vantages besides. It has lofty mountains, | several perennially snow-capped and beau- ; tiful valleys. In certain portions of Mexico | the scenery has more grandeur and | majesty than any other portion of the. world. The Pan-American highway is not entirely completed but when once offered to the traveling public, thousands of tourists whose Mecca was Florida, will} succumb to the lure ef the temptress far- ther south, stances there seemed no other way to set- tle the differences with Perky. He de- manded complete cancellation of back taxes totaling around $100,000 under the This will cost the county ap- proximately $3,750—an expenditure that might have been avoided had the county’s legal lights properly examined the docu- ments under which the Florida East Coast railroad sold its properties on the Florida Keys for $600,000 of public funds. Ex- amination of the railroad’s rights would | have revealed that some ten miles of the | highway pie under the ; small boy who | whiskers; at Norwalk, O., a Santa’s wide | old railroad right of way reverted to Perky | when the railroad ceased Key West opera- tions. Perky still keeps his in the tentative agree- ment reached by the county commission Monday right. Perky will retain title to finger | the right of way while he settles a claim he alleges against the American Telegraph & Telephone company, which uses _ his property for a telephone line. This re- striction becomes void when actual con- struction of the highway begins, but the county’s attorneys should be absolutely certain none of the clauses contain any | jokers under which Perky or anyone else can pry any additional money out of the | i county for extension of the highway and for construction of the water pipeline. It is well that the contract with Perky must be approved by the state road de- partment before it is signed. The road de- partment in all probability will handle | construction of the remaining units of the | highway over the railroad land and_ via- ducts, thus eliminating all of the narrow wooden bridges and dangerous curves and | dips in the old county road. The legal ad- visers of the state road department may be expected to make a careful study of the provisions of the contract to protect the public against further loss of taxes or ex- penditures for projects that will benefit Perky more than anyone else. If the contract is finally signed there will be no further cause for delay by the | state road department in pushing exten- | sion of the highway particularly between Big Pine Key and Key West. This stretch THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Key West Naval Station To [> caaor" __ “Retain Present Facilities” ‘SEARS ROEBUCK | Jacksonville Major Air! ANGLERS T R¥ | Base, Puerto Rico, Pen-' ISLAND W. ATERS, sacola Increases Recom- mended By Navy. Board ANNUAL FISH TRIP MADE TO, | In new recommendations for KEY WEST FINDS SUCCESS: | 1. construction of 40 air, subma- FUL USE OF “BUCKET” Tine, destroyer and mine bases in ! a report to Congress this week of TRICK ON NOVICE ithe U. S. Navy Hepburn base board, Key West Naval Station is | under the heading of submarine} Saturday, Irving Klein of; base and carries a terse, “Retain Brooklyn, N. Y., returned to Mi-; present facilities”. ami from a 11-day fishing trip to| A priority list submitted is as Key West. December 28, Klein, follows: left the Gulf Fishing Docks on: Air Bases: For earliest comple- the fishing cruiser “Hy-Ball”, tion—Chesapeake Bay (Hampton with Capt. Jesse O. Hyden. He’ Roads); southeastern base (Jack- had as his guests Nathan Robins,|sonville, Fla.); Pensacola, Fla.; E. A. Schmidt, F. T. Fitzgibbon,| Puerto Rico (San Juan); Coco J. W. Owens, all of Chicago, and! Solo, C. Z.; Seattle (Sand Point); Julius H. Fanney, Greenburg, | Sitka, Alaska; Kokiak, Alaska; ;Pa. These men are connected; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Ford Is- with Sears Roebuck and Co. and} land); Kaneohe Bay (Island of each year Mr. Klein has them on| Oahu); Mdiway Island; Wake Is-, a trip to Bimini or the Keys. |land, Johnston Island, ‘Palmyra Dr. D. Drespal met them in Key | Island (all in Pacific), and Guam. West and fished with them. They; For late completion—North- had planned to go to Dry Tortu-| eastern base (Quonsett Point, R. gas but found so many fish in, I.); Quantico, Va.; Corpus Chris- \Key West waters and were having | ti, Tex.; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; such a wonderful time, they} Virgin Islands (St. Thomas); San yed here. They got plenty of Diego, Celif.; Alameda, Calif.; ‘barracuda, grouper, amberjack: Unalaska Isiand, Canton Island and a 400-pound jewfish, besides ' and Rose Island. small fish. Submarine Bases: For earl- Each year the highlight of the] iest completion—Guam, Pu- trip is to have one of the novices| erto Rico, Canal Zone, Una- in the party catch a bucket or; laska Island, Midway Island pail fish. This happened to Mr.| and Wake Island. For later Fanney this trip. After struggling] completion — New London, with the pail an hour with much! Conn.; Hampton Roads, Va.: | advice from all on board, who} San Francisco (Treasure Is- were all in on the joke, imagine} land), Calif. and Kokiak, | his surprise to see a pail come UP) Alaska. | | instead of a whale of a big fish.; Destroyer Bases: For earliest Each year Mr. Klein takes! completion—San Diego, Calif. movies of this trip. He showed) For later completion, Philadel- them to his guests and the crew} phia. |of the “Hy-Ball” the night be-! Mine Bases: For earliest com- fore they went on the trip at the pletion—Yorktown, Va.; Haw- Edge Water Beach Hotel. thorne, Va. (ammunition depot), ——————_—— and Oahu, T. H. (ammunition de- ( TUESDAY, Do not say. “He runs @ hardy ware store”; say, “conducts”, “manages”, or “operates”. “I regret so much that I did not | Plan to spend more time in Key West than I did on this trip, for it certainly looks good to me”, said Dr. William J. Mayo of the TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers What is the common name for tetanus? 2. What is the name for the side of a right-angled tri- angle opposite to the right angle? Where is Mt. Etna? What event is called The Nativity? For what government agen- cy do the initials F.S.A. stand? Name the Norseman who colonized Greenland. What are the colors of the flag of Denmark? | Name the largest of the Canary Islands. Why does cream rise to the top of milk? Can the President of the United States pardon a prisoner convicted in a state court? MAKE REPORT ON ' AID FOR BLIND 97 PERSONS IN MONROE COUNTY RECEIVED BENE- FITS DURING DECEMBER ter, N. Y., Minnesota and other cities who was visiting yester- }day on his arrival from the city ‘of Havana. Dr. Mayo spent a | time in Havana and attended a meeting of the Pan-American Medical association. He was met on his arrival in Key West by Dr. Adolfo Aragon, physician to the local Cuban Consulate, who had been cabled by the Cuban Gov- ernment to greet the noted surg- eon on his arrival. Although the boat arrived at 5 o’clock, Dr. Ara- gom took the noted surgeon for a short sightseeing trip before the departure of the train, and they visited the boulevard and other places of interest. Dr. Mayo was so interested that he started to plan a more extended visit that he proposes to take at some time in the latter part of this year. 1. Bringing back with him his commission as county clerk, which he received in Tallahassee, and which was signed by Gov- ernor John Martin, and good for two years or until the next gen- eral election, Ross C. Sawyer ar- rived this morning and gave a very interesting account of his trip and the inauguration of Gov- ernor Carlton. The Key West display, he said, showed up well among the numerous other corps and bands that were in the pag- eant and the Banner created a great deal of interest. He ex- pressed himself as being grateful | to Governor Martin and other of- _ ficials in Tallahassee, who had (Speciat to The Citizen) {shown him so much considera- JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 9. — tion and extended numerous Monroe County like every other courtesies in connection with his county in the state, profited by mission there. the Florida Aid to the Blind pro- a gram, during the calendar year Chancellor Miguel Valdes Mon- 1938. talvo, of the local Cuban consu- December checks were mailed late for the past three years, has mailed to 97 recipients in Mon- been transferred to Genoa, Italy, roe County for an aggregate sum: to be Cuban vice-consul at that of $1,529.00, according to official port. He is informed on official announcement of the State Wel- notice from the Cuban govern- fare Board today. ment. Mr. and Mrs. Valdes con- January of last year marked template leaving Key West about Mayo Brothers Clinic of Roches- | OUTURING LARS, a __ DIMES’ CAMPAIGN however, have preference over these others for “immediate stra- |DR. GALEY CHAIRMAN OF LOCAL INFANTILE PARAL- YSIS BENEFIT EVENT ON JANUARY 30 tegic importance”. In the Carib- bean area, Puerto Rico and addi- tional training facilities at Pen- sacola, Fla., were selected. The Navy plans to add to its air strength 1,000 planes authorized last year at the rate of 200 planes per year. Shore bases on either the Atlantic or Pacific coasts, must be able to support the coast defense without help from the ' other coast. carries the bulk of the wooden bridges and i dangerous curves—and until these are eli- | minated Key West cannot grow and ex- pand into a great tourist center. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Kev West Citizen Santa Clauses in the news: At Day- tona Beach, Fla., a Santa was jailed for getting drunk; in Chicago a_ sidewalk Santa nearly caused a riot by slapping a tried to pull off his pants fell down while he was gravely lead- ing a church procession. Peter Sconfienza of New York has ex- ceptionally strong jaws, and claims to be the only person in the world who has jumped from an airplane in flight and come down safely holding to the para- | chute only by his teeth. Dr. Krause of Kansas City advises that if every person who gets a cold would go to bed and stay there for two or three days his suffering would be shortened and spread of the disease would be less likely. Many of us have known that a long time, but few follow the advice given. Efforts of 40 plain clothes policemen to thwart pickpockets at a recent football game in New York was nearly 100 per cent effective. Only one pocket was picked— that of Sergeant Frank Dombecky, chief of the police squad, who was relieved of his billfold containing $8. Replying to a youngster who wrote to ask how old a boy is supposed to be be- fore he can do as he pleases, a Boston edi- | tor said, “We don’t know; nobody ever lived that long.” Even old Methuselah | probably had someone around who told | him where to head in occasionally. (Special to The Citizen) H JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 10.—| Thousanés upon thousands of} dimes will deluge the White | House in Washington on January 30, the President’s Birthday, as a |result of the “March of Dimes” | campaign in this state. if Sixty-seven Gounty Chairmen, including Dr. H. C. Galey, Key West, are making their plans now for the campaign, which will be ‘launched immediately, according to W. T. Edwards, State Chair- man of the Infantile Paralysis Campaign and Celebration of the President’s Birthday. Eddie Cantor, the master show-: man, is the inventor df this |“March of Dimes” campaign. The plan is a simple one. It provides for the distribution of a small card, which will contain ten dimes. These dimes will be mailed to,the President at the White House, where a public ac- countant will audit them and see to it that every county is given credit for the contribution and |50 per cent will be returned to | the county to be used by the per- manent chapter in that county. These dime cards will be dis- tributed by the County Chairmen and his committee at luncheon ‘clubs, social gatherings, fraternal | meetings, office buildings, fac- | tories, stores and other places of | | business. Today there are 600,000 victims jof infantile paralysis in- the United States, and this campaign | throughout the nation is carried on in an effort to care for them | and at the same time to find new scientific ways and means of | fighting the disease. Colin English, State Superin- tendent of Public Instruction, has ‘accepted the chairmanship of the |“March of Dimes” campaign in, | the schools of Florida, and will work in cooperation with the | Sixty-seven chairmen. | Just A Little Bit I. Donohoo wrote these lines, which are in a way the column-' | ist’s justification: The wisest men the world e’er; knew j Have never dreamed it treason | To rest a bit—and jest a bit, ‘And balance up their reason; To laugh a bit—and chaff a bit And joke a bit in season. 4 The board recommended establishment of a major air base at Camp Foster, five miles south cf Jacksonville, with the following charac- teristics: Faciliiies for two carrier groups planned with a view ioward expansion to four carrier groups; facilities for three patrol plane squad- tons with view to expansion to six: facilities fer iwo utility squadrons; facilities for complete plane and en- gine overhaul; berthing for the inauguration of the program, with checks for the month being mailed to 47 recipients. Each suc- ceeding month found the number of beneficiaries and the amount disbursed increased. December checks were mailed to 2,214 per- sons for an aggregate total of $32,333. The average grant was $14.60. Florida led all the states of the Union with the exception of Maine in the number of persons in proportion to population bene- fitting from this form of public assistance. The speed with which the program was put into effect, following the approval of the state plan by the Social Security Board, has’ won the commenda- tions not only of beneficiaries but also of the welfare agencies of other commonwealths. DEFER HEARING February 1 enroute to Italy. Be- fore coming to Key West, Mr. Valdes had been an attache to the Cuban legation in Paris, France, | since 1916. He says he has spent | much time in Italy and‘that he will be glad of the opportunity of locating there. JANUARY 10, 1939 KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Vanguard of the pilgrimage of se al notables who are coming to Key West for the fishing and golf and will remain for quite a period, are in the city, and others are expected to arrive in a few day: These here today include Fred Fletcher, editor of the Rod and Gun column of the New York -Tribune; Gere Byrnes, st, and Lou Gehrig, first baseman. There ought keep everyone from holding pu office whose taxes remain unpaid. If office seekers are unwilling to meet their obli- gations toward the public treas: ury they should not be permitted to feed from the public trough comment yt ffic y Total volume handled by the high ferry system today is reported by the official check as cars and 114 ssengers with t eater por- tion of travel bein ard Key West. being . Bagged a Biped “What is the name of the spe- cies I have just shot?” manded ur hunter of his guide. afraid it’s genus homo”, guide s n tor d sounds bega A Foresighted Man Wife (returning from Christ- mas _ visit)—Oh, Robert, I must tell you how pleased mother was with all those nice things you said about her in your letter. You see, she opened it by mistake. Hu-band—Yes. 1 thought she would Baby's Cold e~ discomforts relieved without dosing — use | TRY... Deepsea and Key West Reef Fishing on the Charter Boat “MARLIN” CAPT. FRANK GATES Phone... K. W. CITIZEN—Phone 51 | | THE NEWS OF ALL THE WORLD lained FROM THE ATION'S CAPITAL carriers at inner end of en- trance jetty: channel to per- mit tender berihing at piers of Camp Foster: development ot outlying patrol plane oper- ating area in the lower Ban- na River. At Guantanamo facilities for one carrier group and one patrol plane squadron is recommended; 4 “i at Puerto Rico, develop Isle; ed, charged with trying to get Grande as secondary air base out of paying a bill of $12 for with facilities for one, carrier| lodgings, is said to be the son of group with view to expansion to 22 important official in one of two, two patrol plane squadrons the countries of South America, with view to expansion to four,|@9d had run away from his complete overhaul breakwater, home. He was attempting to construction at harbor entrance! make his way back when ar- Baquerizo Leonardo Rindon, who was arrested yesterday morning when boarding the S.S. Cuba for Havana, was not given sent to his home. Young Rindon, who was arrest- | and five berthing piers for one Tested. carrier. Concerning submarine bases; the report points out that “sub-| marines, because of their limited | dependent upon our side resourc-; Lia relieves first day, and F Tablets Nose Drops Try “Rub-My-Tism”—a Wonderful Liniment powers of self-maintenance, are es for routine upkeep when not actually at sea in active opera-| satve, tions”. These resources, consist-| ing of sheltered and protected; anchorage, living accommoda-| tions, mechanical repair equip-| 9°? eoeenerqeracoqoosr ment, supply facilities for food, | The Favorite In Key West fuel and equipment form a sub- | — THY IT TODAY — marine base. The report con-; ST ‘AR * fines its submarine base headings | CUBAN COFFEE to a permanent shore establish- | ment. i ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS National defense expenditures for 1940 will amount to $1,319,- 558,000. President Roosevelt ask- ed Congress Wednesday to appro-! priate $36,500,000 so that naval construction might be continued without delay or curtailment. ! There’ Is No Equal FOR FRESH BREAD —te = “Aunt Molly’s” VALDES BAKERY * Selfish Motive “I’ve just given my wife a sa- ble coat”. “To keep her warm?” “No, to keep her quiet”. FOR DEFENDANT a preliminary hearing yesterday, | it being decided to await a reply | COLDS PATHFINDER answers the questions you and your friends are asking with its concise, vivid portrayal | of the current scene. Events of national and inter- national significance are fully and impartially covered. Facts, new and old, that add clarity and meaning to the news are honestly injected. The very latest and most interesting news photographs freely illustrate the facts. More than a million readers. 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