The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 17, 1939, Page 2

PAGE AGE TWO _The Key ‘West est Citizen Pubilsned Daly Except cast peakag By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. lent and Publisher JO®. ALLEN, Auuisfadt Busthess Manager From The Citi; Building” Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Eutered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter ber of the Associated Press ¢ Asdociated Press is. exclusively entitled to use fer 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 Year Bix Months Three Months One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, rAsofi cespect, obituary notices, etc. will be charg the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents @ line. The Citizen is an open forum. and inv; ites. discus sion of public issues and ‘subiecta of of logal or ‘general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. ng of Yor at The average honeymoon ceases when when they get together to try and balance their budget. “City Forester Collapses.” No, it wasn’t the chap the WPA is paying to count the trees in Akron, Ohio. Can you blame anyone, even the President, from ‘avoiding a city where someone is likely to shoot at you. An Tlindis “plumber; blown out.of a ditch by an explosion, executed the quick- est movement ever madé by a member of his craft. Harrison’ Robertson, 83, sixty’ years an editor‘of a Louisville, Ky., newspaper, says: “You'‘can’t runa paper’ sticcéss- fully now as an organ of a party. or fac- tion.” The independent paper’ is the paper now sought after: The President will'skip Miami,- sail from Key West. Occasion for a-Chamber of Commerce yelp from the “Magic City.” —Tampa Tribune. Can‘you blame the President for skipping Miami when’ he' had such a harrowing experience the last time he visited the Magic City. When Musgolini raped Ethiopia and later conquered that ancient kingdom, his argument was that his country needed ‘an outlet for its-pepulation. Now’ he - is. making the sdme cry’ concerning’ Tunisia,’ Savoy} Etc. Dictators Mussolini and Hit- ler will never'stop short of force—reason an@ justice are not in their‘vocabulary: Aliens and ‘iljiterates‘are befng’ re- ‘ducéd* everywhere in. the United States: In Pennsylvania, for instance, out of sixty one districts, thirty are ‘zero-zero”—no aliens, no illiterate’: The figures for these classes of people in Key West are not available; but there has been a steady re- duction and X° (His Mark) is becoming more artd more infrequent. “The President will boatd the de- stroyer Warrington at’ Key’ West' and | transfer from that vessel to the SS. Hous- ton at sea. This is made necessary: by. the inability:of the Houston to reach’ dockside’ at Key West dué‘to low water?’ This*lat=" ter statement in the Miami Herald ‘is not true. The US.S. Houston draws 2214 ‘feet of water; while the mean low’ water depth at the government dock is 25-feet; which is sufficient clearance for any: ship: -At the time President Coolidge visited” Key West, the' U.S.S. Memphis,’ having practically the same draught as the U.S.S. Houston, came’ all the way along the chan- nelup ‘to the F-E.C. Doeks. We fear the Herald is easily persuaded to think and be- lieve’ anything detrimental to the interésts of Key: West. Reports from Europe indieate’ that nothing but a miracle can avoid a world’ catastrophe. Let us hope the miracle will happen: But if’ war does break out, the’ question is, Will the United States be drawn into the maelstrom? If we will keep’ our frontier on the Western Hemis- pheré; war can be avoided, but we have too many entanglements with Europe; so’ the possibility’ of'the United States not be- ing engulfed in’ a’ European conflagration is remote, because we: will be’ jockied: into’ such’ a’ position that we will want to’go to war: So the policy of Président Roosevelt, now bitterly condemned, of lettifig” the’ totalitatian states know’ in definite’ terms that the’ United States will cortie'to the’ aid | of the democratic powers if theyate hard’ | THAT NAVY AIR BASE. =| | This morning's dispatches*frém"W ash- ington are to the effeet that the fight'for | | the’proposed-southeastern air base rests | | between Miami and» Jacksonville. Chair- | man Carl Vinson of the House Naval Af- | | fairs Committee declared yesterday that A. B. Cook and others stated that Miami two cities involved in the current con- 0.1 troversy. That all gives Key Westers-a laigh—. blue. What other city in the United is Canal Zone and other sections of Central and South America than Key West? his-choice was Jacksonville; while Admirat | | was thé more stragetically located of the H and at the same time makes them sad and | more stragetically located to the Panama | In| editorials and in cartoons, the newspapers | of ‘Miami’ have been striving to place that is 150 miles closer to the objectives in question. A real laugh, if you feel like laughing’ at a lie. the’ mainland newspapers have been’ as- serting that the USS. Houston, with a draft of 22.5 feet, cannot put here “because of low water’, when every- oné here knows that at our docks there is depth of around 32 feet at high tide). Another ‘laugh about this business’ is’ this: located at Miami: would’‘run up to 500,000. néss it should be stated that Miami has tically. everything important. The Citizen wants to point out once and landing field’ on Trumbo, a-section of Key. West built by Henry M. Flagler when he’ provided his Florida East Coast Rail- | road with a terminal here. In short, Flag- | ler built many years ago’ what Miami pro- poses to build with $6,500,000 on Biscayne key. Right at the beginning, then, the gov- ernment .could save $6,500,000 for creat- | ing’ a’site by dredging,. bulkheading; fill- ing and jettying: Fora relatively small | part of that $6,500,000 the government | can buy Trumbo-island. (We are not go- ing to get a cent'for advertising this fact and no commission for'plugging for Trumbo as ‘a site for the navy air base. We simply want'to help obtain the base for Key | West). : At Trumbo' there isa’ ramp, which | may be extended and improved at rel- atively small cost. There is protected water stretching for miles in every direc: tion from Trumbo. The only’ govern- mental expense, and it will fall far short of | thé total estimated for building-a” site: at | Miami, would be*for improvement of the existing ramp, construction of buildings, runways and other facilities—the same | kind of- construction which would have to bé°done at either Jacksonville and Miami tremendous expense. WHO INVENTED THE ALPHABET? The alphabet has been described, with some atcuracy, as the gréatest in- vention’of man. The employment’ of a smal? number of'signs to-denote the ele- mentary sounds of the linguage is gen- erally astribed to the Semites and, by the trading Phoenicians, carried to the Greeks, and the West. Recent light on our alphabet is seen in’ the biblical archaelogists which: report a recent find in the Holy Land: Pointing out that it has been known within recent years that miners in the region of Mount Sinai had an alphabet about 1900 B. C., devised by a'‘foreman forthe keeping of his accounts and that the Phoenician kings of a later period had their alphabet, the publication says that a° connection has beer foutid between the two on inscrip- ‘tions on objects’ found in'the*ruins’ of the city of Lachish; which is’ nientioried ‘in the Book. of Joshua and in the’. Second Chronicles. Together with’ other snesetfptionis the ‘recent: find leads ‘to “the” conelusion that, the-alphabet' adopted by. the Israelites and used to write the Old Testament was *bor+ rowed” ‘by ‘the Greeks front ‘the’ Phoenicians préssed; mifity” be” the’ strategy to‘ pat’ off!) by*the*Romans from. the outbreak to’a nidre distant-date: city nearest the points which the air base | is designed to help protect; yet Key West | into dock | a depth of 25 feet at mean low tide and a | submitted a new estimate of $6,500,000 | EXELUSIVE of buildings, ramps and’ run- | ways—in’ other words exclusive of prac- | again’ that ‘we have a ready made air base | AFTER the site-had been developed at | AT NINE HE WAS ALLOWED To SING."JIM CROW" IN A STOCK COMPANY WITH A CASH RETURN OF A FEW CENTS » A WEEK = (Which reminds us that ° SY 1844, THE PUBLISHERS WERE PAYING FOSTER _ 24.8 COPYON ALL HIS SONGS. FOR THENEXT 10 YEARS HIS INCOME ANERAGED AT LEAST$}500 air’ base'| The cost of the Jackson- | ville site, including the supplemental facili- | ties needed at Banana river (well named) | there bring the total to $18,500,000, while | early-estimates of the cost of the project if | $22,- | Imagine $18,500,000 and $22,- | 500,000 for the cost of an air base. In fair- | » SUPPOSED TITLE FOR A NEW SONG FUND ARISING: CAMPAIGN” KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happeningé Here’ Just Ten Years’Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen ed Sunday and have’ been attend- | | The navy’s submarine Soe) ed by large numbers. méntal unit,’ which, during the! | past week has scored highly grat-| |ifying results in tests of life-| Cusrent Events Class ‘of the: saving devices at depths of from | Woman's Club will meet ee | 40 to 76 feet, left ‘this morning |7°W night at the club rooms on) Hoe a point about 40‘miles ‘from | Division street, and all interest- the city in the Gulf of Mexico|ed are extended a hearty invita- where similar experiments are to| tion. \be’made. It is said these latest} experiments willbe made at a i depth of from, 120 to 125 “feet! Mrs. M. P. DeBoe was-included | | deep: “A ‘nurifber of escapes ‘Were | iD the arrivals here yesterday |made last’ week by use of the Over the highway! from Miami safety chute, which has been in-| for a brief visit with het mother, } stalled in the ‘hull of the vessel. | | Mrs. Thomas O. Otto, on’ Eaton’ The escapes were effected by | street. z | men equipped with the safety} | “Jung”, another new and import-| The Lighthouse Defjictinent! lant invention designed to make | ‘makes the announcemént that jmore safe the lives of the men Tampa Bay Entrance Southwest | on this type of ship. Experi-|Gas and Bell Buoy has been re-! ments, will be conducted along ported driftéd from its’ ’ station the same lines as those of the/ February 16 and will bé’ Brpaces| past week except that they will! aS soon as practicable. be at a depth which will be grad-/{ ually increased, according to| eecccvcccvcevee ewree/ | Lieutenant P. H. Dunbar, officer | |in’ charge: of the experiments, | ‘Today’s Birthdays | who expresses the opifiion that! e6seecees6e vbedoeee. | the experiments in the greater’ Neville Miller, president of the | depths’ will be ‘just as satisfac-| | ations? ‘Absdctation’ of Broad- | tory as those made at lesser | casters, |depths. It is expected that the | years ago. | experiments will be continued | ame| | through the ie month: Samuel’ S. McClure? ‘of New | York; found f' the first’ néws- Instruction Car f Noinber 1 of, paper syndicate, born “ii? Treland, the American Red Cross first aid | service has arrived in’ Key West | cet peut for a period of demonstrations’ covering’ three days. Dr. W. J.} avij Fenton and Herbert Young;. Jr., a Bid hss afe in charge of the car and make | |years ago. the demonstratios and explain} pee the instructions. Today they| Bess Streeter Aldrich of Elm-| visited’ the schools and pn Nebr., noted novelist, born | interest in’ the car’s purpese and| ot Cedar Falls, Iowa, 58 = its trip’ to Key West. A Public | ago, ig demonstration will be conducted | tomorrow morning’ 10 o'clock at! Thomas J. Watson, president of the' city hall and the people of!the Interfational Business Ma- betray frcedthe Gcc the bet chine ‘Corp., New York, born at a Ons: wi ESS | the” demihstedtfors, whit for | Campbell, N. Y., 65 years ago. the® past’ five years, the car nes Dohsld: Bilan’ of Hitghart, | carried? to’ more than 600 cities; | Mass:, actor’ and singer, born at | in‘'the United ‘States. |St John, Newfoundland, Editorial comment: Key West Leger | will have more fishing boats’ for| Josephine D: D. Bacon of New| charter next'season. On a few) yori’ author; borh ‘at Stamford, | occasions recently the supply. was| Conn., 63 years ago. nét sufficient to cope with the! situation. This will not occur an-} other season for a large number! are already in the planning. White Sox split a doubleheader at’ the’ municipal ball park yes-) terday. The first game featured’ Bethel Young as pitcher, who Dorothy Canfield- Fisker: of! Kans., 60) } Thé Pavérite In Key Welt” i — tity IT TOBAY:— STAR: * BRAND. CUBAN: COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL. GROCERS | oddddecddocccdccrsooevec beat them to the tune Revival services at the First ey ann eo Cohan aaa e@ by Rev. H! C. and! the Scotch Evangelist’ Rev. S.A: Renecks. The services were start- joie borh at Louisvillé Ky., 45 10, noted*' author, |f* 62! ; , - FLORIDA: STEPHEN: FOSTER MEMORIAL- s ree. attra 6t8- ‘TEST YOUR EN-OWLEDGE Which State “Apache State”? If two children are born: of the same mother- a day apart aré they twins? is called Namé the’ administrator of} |’ the WPA: Where’ is “the native habitat }'' of the chimpanzée? How many cubic’ feet are in one cubic yard? In whieh’ country’is ‘the’sea-| | port city’of Callao? Who" suceeded” Col. Jacob Ruppert” as President” of the New York Yankees? Name can Sa: What is thé correct :pronun- ciation of the word mes- merism? Did any Senators FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1989 | Ceeccveccccencccccessces | coccceccuvccnceeseeeeees SIDELIGHTS' = Today’s Horoscope \eececcccnasecose | BPMARCY B. DARNALL | ‘Pesiier Edifer of The Citizen | Today’s natives ‘are atch | ewobdccovdsocsicce deer of occult powers, receptive to | Betty. Jean-Gundy, 4, of Con- {psychic impressions and able to rie, Tex., lost in the woods all |Construct from them. Avoid the night while nearly 500 men/|tendéncy to broaden the sphere | searched for her, was found after ; of life and be content to remain Y | daylight next morning. She ex. |in the path -of modest industry. Plained that during the night! Intuitive instincts are indicated. she was frightened by “all those ; men with lights,” but when they got near her she “hid in’ the’ bushes and kepf still.” |had shined McOwen’s shoes daily {for nearly half a century. Nashville’s outstanding citizen | for 1938 was James G. Stahlman, publisher of the Banner and president of the American News- paper Publishers Association, ac- cording- to’ an award by the Kiwanis Club of that city. His fight for freedom of the press, ‘efforts for Southern newsprint | manufacture, and work for a {Joint university library were S ec mm ir ‘Vince DiMaggio, . brother of] ‘RE i as services meriting the slugging Joe, has been released | by the’ Boston, Bees ad» will soi] back to a minor league team, |the Kansas City Blues, Vince is! |one’ of" the’ greatest fielders and throwers: in the game, but can't hit. He established a major | league record for striking out; last‘season. A lioness seldom gives birth to more than two cubs, but five Were born to one in charge of farfied trainer Clyde Beatty at! Rochester, Ind., a few days ago. | All are females, and they. have/ been named after the Dionne; quintuplets—Cecile, Yvonne, An- nette, Marie and Emilie. Lewis Stone, one of the ase finest character actors, has been} presented with a scroll by Sheriff Biscailuz of Los Angeles, for his record ‘in having driven 500,000' miles in 34 years without an ac- cident or ‘arrest. j Let -Us-Estimate on YOUR Printing POSTERS A cow being milked by John! Proud’ of Bartley, Neb., stepped} on a cat’s tail; the cat scratched the cow; the cow kicked Mrs. | pate. Aebies Was standing by, and! 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