The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 13, 1939, Page 2

PAGE Two —— the Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. P, ARTMAN, President an@ Publisher JOR ALLEN, Assistant Business: Manager From The Citizen Building » Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ee County) eae Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter “he Member of the Associated Press + * Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use ’r republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not etherwise credited in this paper and also news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES _ Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolufions of “epect, obituary notices, ete. will be charged for at e of 10 cents a line. Netices for entertainment by churches from which enue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. = ie is an open forum and invites discus- of Public issues and subjects of local or general est but it will not publish anonymous communi- 8, The trouble about our Civil Service is that it is not civil. What has Miami and Jacksonville got that we haven’t got? Political pull. Gambling must be dirty, for we are hearing constantly of having it cleaned up. Every individual can do something to make Key West more attractive; why don’t you do your part? Yes, you! Even if the county commissioners be- lieve in signs, there is little need for the placing of “Keep Off the Grass” signs on the court house grounds, A soothsayer warned Caesar to be- ware of the ides of March. Since the in- come tax law was enacted, tax payers are AWARE of the ides of March, and it doesn’t do any good to BEWARE of them, for already the dies are cast. The first automobile accident in the world, it is claimed, oceurred upon the streets of Detroit 44 years ago and the cause was not liquor or joy riding, but the contraption jeeringly called “Ford’s Folly” and driven by Henry Ford himself. For swell stories about catching game fish—The Key West Citizen just about seems to have all other competitors on the run.—Times-Union. We have the fish to write about, and you ought to see the “lobsters” that produce the stories. Colonel Knight for a seasoned politi- cian is quite innocent in expressing the hope that projeets will be placed where merited and where they will do the great- est good to the greatest number, and not through political pressure or expediency. Dr. Harold G. Moulton, president of the Brookings Institution, told the House Ways and Means committee recently, that the $200 a month Townsend old age pension plan is “fantastic, and that the 2 per cent transaction tax to finance the plan would absorb from 25 per cent to 30 per cent of the national income to provide pen- sions of $200 a month for 9,000,000 or 10,- 000,000 persons over the age of 60 years, would total between $18,000,000 and $20,- 000,000. The Reorganization bill, very much emasculated but yet very dangerous, was driven through the House in Wednesday’s session of Congress. This is one step nearer dictatorship and should fill Roose- velt’s heart with joy for the additional executive power he is given, though we have as yet to hear from the Senate. On the proposition to recommit the bill, which would have practically meant its death sentence, the entire Florida congressional | representation voted “No.” Economist Walter P. Fuller and Roy Crummer do not see eye to eye. In his weekly financial news, the former says: “Roy Crummer puts the same hood wink over on community after community. In connection with the Arcadia refund it was provided that for the first 6 months back taxes could be settled at 25 cents. A dead- line rush brought in $29,048. But on counting up it was found that Crummer got $19,196 for debt service, $8,455 was paid in script and the operating fund got only $1,426 in cash. This cleaning up will keep almost any refund alive for two or three years. Then if things don’t catch hold Crummer will do it all over again for another big fee.” ¢ | years. This reveals the necessity for SPECIAL LEVY FOR PROJECTS | City council has requested State Rep- resentative Bernie C. Papy to introduce an | | act at next session of the Legislature en- | | abling Key West to levy a special tax as- | sessment, in addition to the present levies | for public works, general expense and debt services, to sponsor WPA projects for this community. Representative Papy has indicated he wili handle the assignment. For some time one of the most press- | ing and vexing problems confronting the city has been the urgent need for money | ‘with which to prevent a substantial layoff of WPA workers when the supply of ma- terials for the sewer-water project runs | out. The WPA has announced that it will buy no more materials for this project, but is willing to supply the labor costs until the job is completed. Wher this situation first came to pub- | lic attention it was thought money for the materials might be raised by public sub- | seription. The effort along that line was subsequently abandoned. More recently the matter was brought to attention of the | Monroe county commission. It was found the county might obtain $10,000 from race | track taxes, but it was believed illegal for the county to sponsor a city project. The result was the county offered to loan the | city the $10,000 provided the city put up a | revenue bond as security. Council is now | studying that proposal, and it seems prob- | able the plan will be adopted’ for some money is needed immediately to keep the sewer-project going until the act enabling | a special tax levy for the work is passed | | by the Legislature. The Citizen is inclined to believe that the, only right and fair way to raise | funds for sponsorship of WPA projects is | by a special assessment. The council wants authority to add from 2 to 4 mills to the regular assessment for sponsoring such public works. Unless there is a sharp up- turn in private employment here after the sewer-water project is finished other simi- lar works will have to be sponsored to keep the WPA workers employed. Since such projects benefit the entire city, the entire city should be called upon to bear a _ pro- portionate share of the cost. While favoring some such plan for keeping WPA workers busy, The Citizen believes the workers should strive to help themselves. A substantial reduction of WPA rolls impends. In the not far dis- tant future there will be further reduc- tions until eventually the WPA will be a thing of the past. It behooves every WPA worker to look around for private employ- mert and relieve the taxpayers of his’ sup- | port. Of recent months many local jobs have gone to strangers while our own resi- | dents followed the easier way permitted | by the WPA. FIGHTING VENEREAL DISEASES While no one can state with certainty the number of persons in the United States suffering from venereal diseases, reports from 30,700 physicians in 1980 revealed that 642,000 cases of syphilis were under treatment. The presumption is that an equal number of cases of gonorrhea exist- ed at the same time. The medical and social problem pre- sented by venereal diseases is termed by Dr. Parran, United. States Surgeon-Gen- eral, as “the most urgent in this country today.” Apparently, one-half of those afflicted are between the ages of twenty and thirty sound sex education through teachers, parents and church leaders. There is no sense in adopting a hush-hush policy. In- telligence and_good conscious require that the people of the United States attack this problem immediately. It has been estimated that 100,000 deaths are caused each year by syphilis, that more than one million years of life expectancy are lost, that the disease takes | a heavy toll through blindness and’ in- sanity and is the cause for much of the $60,000,000 a year spent for institutional care. The man who works hard usually finds time to play. To believe in freedom means to be- lieve in it for others, too. If anyone is indiscreet enough to tell you that you are looking old, tell em they | are right and that you were never so old | as you are now. And you might add you | are not feeling as old as you leok. | has come into this port, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE ON st LY ONE THE ISLAND CITY |total population of the United Old Key West CONTINUING from the old: Cappick of this city, “The Schooner City of Key West, | Capt. Schooner Manderson from Balti- | Newspaper owned by Miss Marie more reports a brigantine ashore H dating at Orange Keys on way to Key/|and Herbert Hoover of Frost, in jaround the year 1889, we find: West. “Sloop Hawkins was struck by 1 Seeccccccevsccccososoose| SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen Robert Wadlow of Alton, IIL, who celebrated his 21st birthday recently, is now 8 feet 84% inches tall, and is declared by scientists to be the tallest human who ever jlived. One or two legendary | characters were reputed to be |somewhat taller, but it is said that there is no historical evi-| dence concerning them. The Department of Commerce ‘estimates that families with an- |nual incomes of less than $2,000 a | year own 60 per cent of all auto- mobiles and 40 per cent of all ‘mechanical refrigerators in use in the United States. The esti- mate was made after a study of |cross-section groups of families in 50 cities. Sky-writing airplanes usually travel at a speed of about 125 miles an hour and produce 250,- 000 cubic feet of smoke a_ sec- jond. Although relatively short words are generally used, a single word will often stretch across ‘tive miles of sky, with letters averaging a mile in height. | The oil industry has an annual |payroll averaging about a billion and a half dollars, which sup- ports some 4,000,000 people, or- ‘approximately as many as_ the |States when Washington became |president 150 years ago. | John Garner of Roosevelt, La., the same state, were recently certified by the Louisiana state Sawyer, arrived at Jno lightning while laying at anchor/department of labor as being Lowe’s wharf this morning from at Bahia Honda, shattering the ¢ligible for unemployment com- for Nassau with passengers and! arrived at Curry’s wharf with a ceed to Galveston”. | The Equator reporter reported | that the construction of the city’s “new artesian well is progressing with his wife is related. After| York Times: | well”, The paper said, “Ex-Presi-| | dent Grover Cleveland is expect-| ed in the city on the Olivette| | from Havana. “One of our typos, slug 12, was. the recipient of a delightful ser-| enade by Jenks and Co.’s String Band at 10 o’clock last evening. | “Ship Coronet struck on Re- becca but slacked sails and suc- ceeded in getting into Tortugas! with seven feet of water in the, hold. She will go on to New| Orleans with six new men.) | by Indians. One body was found in which an aggrieved husband shot one who had impinged on his honor because of relations a duel, in which both were wounded, the adventurer was killed at the Caroline street pond by a chotgun discharged into his back by the agrieved husband. “The Chinese of the city may build a Joss house to worship Confucius”, the paper reports. “A white goat with a pink tail is frequenting the City Hall grounds. Beche de mer are abundant in Key West and can be secured for a cent apiece. They can be sold to the Chinese on the West Coast”. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Arriving in port this morning was the British tank steamer. i and Havana as a triumvirate in the attraction of visitors and the | Key Largo with an assorted car-| mast and tearing up the deck, go-|Pensation benefits, according to |go of vegetables and fruits.!ing along the chain and out|@ Baton Rouge press dispatch. | | British Schooner Goodwill sails!through the hawser hole’. | In an 1877 publication of the |freight if the weather is favor-'Key of the Gulf commentation is igeons were stolen from him lable. Schooner Martha, which made on the Indian Key massacre tone days ago. Within a pee e | Frank Sampson of Newton, | Mass., reported that 25 homing |hours five of them had flown cargo of lumber, will take on a'in a cistern, completely boiled.|pack home, and the others were | cargo of palmetto piles and pro-| An, account of an affair of honor | expected to return if they were able to escape from their captor. in the New “Wanted imme- | diately a man who resembles the |President to demonstrate game, |‘Balance the Budget,’ in store windows. Must also be able to | juggle tennis balls; salary $50. ; Also wanted man who resembles | WPA worker; salary $60.” | _ Advertisement We read of a manufacturer | who was reported to the National ;Labor Relations Board for firing ‘an employee because he distri- |buted circulars at the factory. It was later disclosed that the dis- tribution was made by wrapping the circulars around a stone and | heaving them through a window. Brooks Jones recently drove his ancient car, a 1922 model Stan- jley steamer, from Ithaca to Glens |Falls, N. Y., a distance of 230 |miles, using 23 gallons of kero- |sene and 75 gallons of water on the trip. He said he just “loafed along at 40 miles an hour,” but thinks he could have done 90 if San Patricio, which came from’ movement of travel. How about |he had been in a hurry. | Tyne, England, and is at the Por- ter Dock Co., for a supply of fuel oil. The vessel was piloted into port and brought up to the dock by Captain Eugene Knight and made a safe landing with perfect ease. The steamer has a length of 530 feet and when full loaded a draft of 31 feet. The -ship.is of 7,353 tons net, approximately | 10,000 tons gross,. The vessel is, jan oil burner and is driven .b; powerful engines. The mammoth’ tanker was given 1,000 barrels of fuel oil, from the tanks of the Texas Co. Owing to the great length of the ship the cables of the Lord Kelvin, British ship, which was moored at the Mal-! lork Dock, had to be taken fur-} ther along to furnish berthing} including Key West and making it a foursome. Navy’s two other airplanes en- gaged in aerial photography with the U.S.S. Hanibal off the coast of Cuba arrived yesterday to be in port a few days. They came in for supplies and to get shore leave. “4 ‘Local’ camp of P. of O. will hold a roll call meeting tomorrow evening commencing at 7:30 o’clock in the hall of the organ- ization on Duval street. An in- teresting program will be render- ed and refreshments will be served. Daughters of The King will as- Child labor appears to have |been pretty thoroughly stamped jout without a constitutional ;amendment. A survey of 1,572 |factories employing slightly more than two million workers showed | that only 28 children under 16 |Years of age were employed. | | ——— | When a sow belonging to al | Georgia farmer bore a litter of |20 pigs, a difficult feeding prob- | |lem arose, as the mother hog had | accommodations for only 12 at atime. It was arranged to let the pigs take their nourishment in relays. a | John Gospodarek, 12, of Chi-| cago, will probably give up gun toting for a while. He carried space for the San Patricio. This'somble this afternoon at the|his uncle's .38 caliber pistol to ship is one of the largest that home of Miss Lillie Watlington| School, dropped it on the floor, and is practically the same length of the Standard Oil Co. vessel Cadil-' lace, which came up to the dock’ several years ago. | i sabi ah } New ferry vessel recently com-! pleted in Jacksonville, where it was built for the Monroe county system, has not left Jacksonville yet, according to reports received at the engineer’s office in the. county court house. The new; boat was to have sailed Monday) on her maiden voyage down the east coast to Key West, though! no definite announcement along; this line was made. Departure) was delayed by strong winds prevailing on the east coast the) on Duval street. It is the inten- tion of the members to hold a regular meeting of the organiza- tion. There were a large number of passengers arriving this morning on the train from the north, the majority of whom left on the P. and O. ship for Havana. Others stopped off at this city for a few days’ rest. A small fire occurred this aft- ernoon about 3 o’clock at the old Consumer’s ice plant on Caroline street, near the corner of Grin- nell. The blaze was caused by sawdust under the building, which took fire in some unknown man- last few days and the vessel will) ner. There was practically no PAYS IT BACK DES MOINES — Eight years! ago Mrs. Agnes McFarland of and suffered a bullet wound in the ankle, besides terrifying his teacher and classmates. j | Peter Weaver claims the | world’s “tobacco spitting” cham- | pionship for a squirt of 27 feet, made in a contest witnessed by! | some 2,000 people at Maysville, tors were made to pay a fine of | '$1 each for violating health reg-| ulations. | Mrs. Raymond Porter com-! | Plained to a Chicago judge that |her husband worried her when | he was drunk, by indulging in| | pranks at her expense. Among} |his playful practices mentioned | | were throwing her out of a win-| |dow frequently, and occasionally | ‘unstrapping her wooden leg and | tossing it into the street. Porter} | was sent to jail. | ae | There are more than half aj | million corporations in the United | as the informa-|this city lost a pay envelope States. yet they carry on only| tion is received it will be an-'containing $8, Recently it was/one-fifth of the country’ Tribune speaks of Tampa, Miami} retyrned to her with this note: |“ ‘needed it at the time I found! it, but Ican pay it back now. Thanks.” eco- ‘nomic activity, the other’ four-| fifths being ‘conducted by in-| {dividuals and personal partner- ships. ; MONDAY, MARCH 12 AVERY POWELL ON’ GOVERNOR'S STAFF MANAGER OF LA CONCHA APPOINTED LIEUTEN- ANT-COLONEL Avery G. Powell, Jr., manager of La Concha Hotel, has been notified of his appointment to the governor’s personal staff as Lieutenant-Colonel. This infor-| mation was contained in a letter from the Executive Mansion at | Tallahassee, and signed by Gow ernor Cone. The letter read as follows: Mr. A. G. Powell, Jr., Hotel La Concha, Key West, Fla. Dear Avery: It gives me much pleasure to appoint you Lieutenant-Colonel on my personal staff. Your commission is being mail- ed to you under separate cover. With kind regards, I am, Sincerely yours, FRED P. CONE, Governor. Mr. Powell, a resident of Key West for the past month, with intentions to become a permanent citizen of this city, is to be con- (Signed) | gratulated upon the occasion of this conferred honor. Mr. Powell has had extensive experience in the hotel business, coming to the La Concha hotel from the assistant-managership of the Alcazar Hotel in Miami. He is the son of the late Avery Powell, Sr., for 26 years an edi- torial writer on the staff of the Florida Times-Union. FISHING NOTES FROM PIRATES COVE SOCCOSOSSSOSSOESOOOOESEE Cove tinues to be productive of good Fishing at Pirateg con- sport as weli as a number of ex- News from that following catches cellent catches. area giv the last week: Carl W. Pfieffer of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, out fishing with Captain Thomas Moore the a fine tar- a on Moccasin, brought in pon wei j ish J. Irish, shington, D. C., and R. Russell Swigert, of Baltimore, Md., fishing with Cap- tain Lopez, brought in nt dol- phin, two barreauda and two grouper. On another days’ aut- ing, they brought in one amber- jack, two yellowtail, six mack- eight dolphin a several barracuda. Gordon Ohio, and Meek, of Cinneaut, T. C. Whiteman of Greenville, Penn., fishing with Captain Ezrl McQuaide on the . brought in four mack- > muttonfish, two yellow- dolphin, two kingfish, nd two grouper. omas Gaston Graham of New- fishing with Captain Red Lopez on the Madeline, got two b: cuda, one muttonfish, three grouper and two red snap- per erel, ¢ tail, one two bi Mr. ecececccscccecccccoscces The Favorite In Key West — THY IT TODAY — STAR > BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS KEY WEST vise with a atl to ELAWVAINA via P & O Steamship CUBA Wk West, 8:30a.m. Mondays-Thursdays $; Ea ROUND As. Havena, 3:00 p.m. same after Lv. Havana, As. Key West, 3:15 p.m. same afternoon ® CUBAN TOURIST TAX 56c To PORT TAMPA, Tuesdays and Fridays, 5 p. m. 9.00... Tuesdays-Frideys \ wh TRIP IG MEALS HAT SEA 7 noon \ 1 & AND t ss 10 DAY LItalt — The PENINSULAR . occ or DENTAL S. S. COMPANY Information, Tickets and Reservations, Phone 14 Fo Entertainment — Fish MONROE THEATER Priscilla Lane—Wayne Morris ine BROTHER RAT Matinee—Balcony 10c, Or- chestra 15-20c; Night—15-25c | | | CASA MARINA Key West's Hotel De Luxe AMERICAN PLAN 200 Delightful Roomis, Each With ‘Private Bath Beautiful Cocktail Lounge DANCING NIGHTLY Dave Garson’s Orchestra PETER SCHUTT, Manager OUTDOOR BOWLING Corner Duval—Angela NEAR MONROE THEATER 5 NEW RE-SURFACED ALLEYS FREE PARKING West's de LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Strictly Fireproof Garage Open The Year Around For Over a Generation— COFFEE Obtainable All Over Town! ‘SRRUSRIRANRCRUARL OSE INFORMATIO R TOURIST | -_| COMEDY 4. H. COSTAR, Agent S : ing — Accommodations OVERSEAS CAFE AND LODGE Marathon, Fila. Phone No. 4 | “The Best in Food and Rooms” Between Key West and Miami | COMPLETE GARAGE SERVICE Charley Toppino, Prop. N j | | } jj ! TROPICAL SAILINGS on the ‘BALMY DAYS’ | DE LUXE MOTOR SAILER | DAILY TRIPS Leave 9:30 A. M. and 2 P. M. from PORTER DOCK Delightful 2 Hour Trip || See Key West From The Seal | | PALACE iKy. He and his losing competi- | Cool and Delightful Under Roof | Frieda Inescort—Henry Wilcoxon ; WOMAN DOCTOR also NEWS eoncccesccesecesscscsese NO NAME LODGE Famous Bahia Honda Fishing Reef - Tarpon - Permit - Bone Fishing Cottages—$1 per person and up Stone Crab Dinners a Specialty Phone No Name Key No. 1 For Information PIRATES COVE FISHING CAMP |] Pirates Cove, Sugar Loaf Key Strong Arm Brand | BEST FISHING IN FLORIDA Individual CABINS with Appointments for the Discriminating | CHARTER BOATS