The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 2, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO i The Published Daily Except Sunday By ‘THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building 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 blication of all news dispatches crelited to it or not etherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ... Six Months Fhree Months One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of sespect, obituary notices, ete., will be charged for at the rat» of 10 cents a line. Notieés for entertainment by churches trom which @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- of public issues and subjects of local or general 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. “Emergency” covers a multitude of | Politicians are running for office while the taxpayers are running for cover. In the wake of German ambition as provoked by Hitler, misery trudges slowly and pitifully. The Key West Citizen sagaciously “If you have more business than don’t advertise.” — Times- urg' you want, Union. Even if England and France come across with some of the billions they owe us, the United States will never come across again. Poland's reply to Hitler for Danzig is in the words of a popular ballad, “No, No, a Thousand Times No.” However, it ap- pears the dictator will not take “No” for an answer. According to a statistician the per! capita share of the national debt is now about $320. What most Floridians want to find out now if there isa way to Mur-' phyize this debt. Civilization isn’t what it ought to be or professes to be when a world has to lis- ten to a guy like Hitler, an ex paper hanger and a poor one at that, before knowing | whether there will be peace or war. Hitler did not make his territorial ex- pansicn demands until he was sure of his quarry, and then only when he felt that England and France would not intervene. Now that these democracies are showing their teeth, Adolf is not so pugnaciously | inclined. Creditors who trusted the Celebration ey @lest Citizen Japan is to conquer and ; or respected by the invaders. ‘cluded in Committee are placing their hopes on Rep- resentative Papy to introduce a legislative | measure whereby the Overseas Road & | Toll Bridge District would be directed to | pay the outstanding bills incurred by the | Celebration Committee and remove this | blot from all those affected. | | Charity begins at home. Supersenti- | tive humanitarianism for advertised, charity abroad and neglect for the submerged millions at home,. whose deplorable con- dition is not called to the attention of the world, does not square with Americanism. We also need “Lebensraum” and there is | no room in America for 20,000 children of war-torn Europe. Lord Lothian, the British ambassador to be, to the United States, is the chap who got up in the house of lords and boldly told ; that gentry, Britain would have been de- feated in the World War if this country | had not come to the rescue of her and her allies. Naturally, he feels now that “there is trouble in the wind” Uncle Sam must be flattered. and cajoled so he will play the | sucker once again. But it will. be found | that the long-legged and, bewhiskered hayseed won’t buy gold bricks a second time. | 740 per person. | that just grew up, for no reason. | sider the English non-pedigree cow who JAPAN IS RUTHLESS The Japanese invasion of China con- | | tinues to exhibit the ruthless bombing of | civilian centers and the deliberate murder | of women and children who are being daily | destroyed in their homes. | the world, including those of us who live The people of in the United States, continue to be apathe- tic to the dropping of bombs on defense- less Chinese people. The atrocities com- mitted by the Japanese invaders do not stir up the indignation that one might ex- pect. 1 It is apparent that the purpose of control China. Neither the rights of the Chinese nor of foreigners residing in China are regarded The brown army of Japan depends upon its might to take what it wants and leaves to diplomats | the problem of preventing interference from foreign powers. From the beginning of the struggle the Japanese have disre- garded the rights of other peoples in China and there is no doubt but that, if victorious, the Japanese will take advantage of their conquest to close the Open Door of China to the emmerce of nations other than Japan. x The United States Government has in- formed the Tokyo Government that Japan is violating American rights in China by | refusing to evacuate seized property of American citizens and by preventing our citizens from returning to their own prop- erty. So what? The answer is, the Jap- anese Army will continue to do as -it pleases and the Tokyo officials will do | their best to prevent the United States | from taking any action that might injure Japanese military prospects. The writing of diplomatic notes to Tokyo is practically a waste of time unless the Government of the United States is ready to undertake something definite in the form of retaliation.. This need not be warfare; it might be an embargo on the ‘shipment of war materials to Japan. The resistance of the Chinese people to the overwhelming force of the invading ‘Japanese has surprised the entire world. The persistence and bravery of Chinese armies in the face of great odds has won the respect of people everywhere for the | soldiers of China and the Chinese Govern- ment. Admiration and respect, however valuable they may be, do not assist the Chinese if other nations are passive, per- | mitting the Japanese tc violate their rights with impunity and, at the same time, con- tinue to buy abroad the supplies that make the war possible. THE NATION’S WEALTH The total physical assets of the United States are estimated at $409,949,000,000 by the Rev. Edward Kellar, director of. the Bureau of Economic Research, University of Notre Dame. The valuation is based on figures available for 1930 and isin terms of the pre-devaluation dollar. The reader should | note that only physical “things” are in- the estimate. Stocks, bonds, mortgages and paper money are not in- cluded for the reason that they only evi- dence ownership of things. The “things” are divided into two broad classes: those used “for comfort,” or “to satisfy some want of an individual” and those “used for production” or “tools used to produce goods.” While the figures THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ' $ OR A WHOLE NIGHT The following article is taken ‘from “The Dog World”, a pub- ‘lication for “Everybody Who Keeps: A Dog”, and was written by Phyllis Robson, the editor, | who spent several delightful. days in Key West. last March. “The Dog World”, read. by dog fancier: all over the world, is. publi: in London, England: eee | paper. This time. we got a big double column heading and were the first, item of news on, the front |page of ‘The Key »West: Citizen’. | We caught a huge’ turtle, ahd our |headline ran as follows: ‘Gulf | Stream Catch of 350-Pound Log- | gerhead. Turtle Brings Thrills’. “I should think it did bring | thrills. We'd been out in the At- |lantie fishing for the elusive sail fish and had a good: catch of large fish such as amberjack—my first —groupers, etc, when about a quarter to three we sighted an enormous turtle swimming along. All was excitement and we meant having that turtle at any price—apart from the sport the |meat is very valuable, so the | captain of our boat, the renown- ed Jakie Key, and his brother, were as keen on bagging tie crea- ture as‘we were. Whenever we got néar/him he submerged, and which run up to four and five hundred. pounds. One fishes for these with live grunts, funny lit- tle fish which grunt when caught, hence their name. It took us about. 1% hours to get out to the creeks, and I was introduced to a new. ‘kind’ of ‘fishing’ with a line. *. The way’ the grunts swallowed’ “Once moré Mrs. Griess. and 1 thé bait—lbsfers, ‘by, the ' way,’.the mainland, one of them seven have figured largely in the local, tickled meenormously;:and I pull-'miles:’ long—he ‘calls his “pet ‘ed: up, one after” another “with vgreat gusto, We caught three luge ‘je , ong about 100 Ibs., before, ite;was:decided we must maké'a,‘move and commence the serious “business of the evening, and, by the way, there was no mgon. So we dined—half.a chick- en each in our fingers seemed mighty good, and. by 7 o’clock it was dark and we were ready and out in a water favoured by Mr. Tarpon. Truly it is strange how novice’s luck holds good—I soon hooked a 50-lb. one, and had to call the assistance of Mrs. Griess to reel. him in, and if anyone thinks this is a small task I ad- vise them to try their hands at bringing in a fish of this weight. In about an hour’s time I had another, and with the “do or die” feeling I was determined to bring him in myself." "¥t Was 9 o’clock and pitch dark L,reeled for all ' NEW, ARRIVAL IN Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roberts announce the arrival of a boy at ‘the home, 806 Southard street. |The youngster tipped the scales to the tune of 8% pounds. Both mother and baby are do- ing nicely. The newly-born has been given tne name of Ralph ; Filmore. ~ project”. The Government has been very generous in granting jarge sums of money to Key West} for building this highway, and al- ‘so for the dole whilst the town! was passing through difficult | times. I am hoping I may get a, peep at the President, but haven’t much hope, judging by the precautions to be taken to guard him and, secure his privacy. He is to stay at the Naval Sta- tion and seems to require a great deal more guarding than do our beloved King and Queen. Swimming in the Sea My word, it is hot here, and the mosquitos have found me out. I spent as much time as I could in the sea yesterday and it was. glorious. In the morning I stayed in an hour and went to the beach again for a swim before dinner. | There Was ,a glorious sunset, and quite close to the shore were sev- ‘twice the harpoon missed him, I was worth, and nwould accept | cal battléships: These in the} ‘In the éxcitemertt of retrieving \the ‘harpoon pole Mrs. Griess nearly went over the boat, and I grabbed. I replied, “or else there is a young pey of seaplanes. her by the seat of her shorts, Finally the harpoon went through. the vulnerable spot in turtle’s no help. Suddefily’'' the mate gaid, “He’s gone’. “No he hasn’t’, whale on the end of my line’. was right. Mister Tarpon was duly hooked and. landed, morning had practicing gunnery, and were accompanied by a num- I paid a call on the editor of | Sands; the local paper yesterday. 1| with publicity to Mrs. in, but he was so huge and cum- p. m., with two tarpon and three’ G,j iy bersome it was impossible to lift. jewfish, besides oddments in the tie ceneunense ae a a sae him on beard, so, securely roped, way of grunts and snappers, WE! 4, was to call and thank him, he was attached to the bow. We decided we might turn home- especially as I noticed that most’ |kept on peeping over to see that wards as Capt. Key said the tide oe visitors to Key West from afar he was safe, and discovered he was so angry he was attacking was against us. The night was black as_ ink. imade a point of looking him up before departing. I found Mr. | the kottom, of the boat with his Mrs. Griess settled herself down | artman, the editor of The Key | powerful jaws. to sleep, and. I dosed, About 11 West Citizen, a most genial and | “It appears that loggerhead p. m. I heard an ominous sound interesting man as well as a keen turtles are quite different to the from the engine, and though we dog lover. He owned a good |other kind, which is harmless, seemed to be going full steam Conje yntil recently, but lost it but our catch can bite a man’s arm or leg off easily. So we had ahead did net appear to be mov- ing. After watching Capt. Key and I agreed with him when he said, “This is no. place for dogs”. ‘a consultation, and much as wé and his brother doing great work He also showed me a picture of |wanted. to land our catch alive with poles which seemed to re- a Shepherd ‘dog which had just we decided to prevent further sult in nothing, I ventured to ask .0n killed by a motor car and | damage to the boat that he must if we’d struck a sand bank, and‘ the owner was so broken-hearted | |be given the happy despatch, so |his throat, was cut. After such ary” as it were, and the mate told} | marvellous luck we thought we me it Would be ‘mornin before! per, we'd get off when the tide would) | would finish fishing for the day. jt never saw such excitement “on the answer. was in “the infirm- rise. ‘I resigned, myself to our he, was putting the dog’s picture in, an dbituary notice in the pa-| Mr. Artman was going to! publish at ‘the ‘same time‘an ex-) cerpt from a Boston paper writ-} | the pier as when we landed with! tate—did not wake Mrs, Griess,| ten by a man who had lost his jour monster, whom Mrs. +Griess| and retired to rest on the hardest| Gog and beautifully, expressed. | | wittily nicknamed, Barnacle Bill bunk I've ever struck. Capt. Key ‘from dogs we turned to “shop”, | the Sailor, so many shells did, he and. his brother stretching out on and I, learned how many years jhave on his hack. Of course I'the floor—the exasperating part! azo it was a toss up as to whcth- | wanted to take his photograph, was that we were only half an_ ie Key West’ or dp en would Use| | but the block and tackle available} hour from Key West, but for all! come the fashionable place, many | | were not strong enough to haul the help we might expect we people predicting the latter, andj i him up on to the derrick, so Thad! could just ‘as Well have been in My. Artman had the chance of | to be satisfied with his hanging the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. | pyying the Miami Herald for 14, {over the end of the pier, which At 6 p. m. I came out and a 000 dollars. He refused, and cami | did not really show him up prop- consultation took place which re-|/t9 settle in Key West, and re erly. And we were simply in- sulted in Mrs. Griess, who'd slept! cently the Miami Herald changed,, jundated "with congratulations, on the floor as‘ preferable to. 8) hands for 3.million dpllars. Such |and felt very proud, for such a hard bunk,’ and the mate going | is life. However, he is very hap- catch is very rare. The “boys”, {as we call Capt. Jakie and his | mate, cut him up that night, and! off the bank. For thé first time, jthe meat from him was valued jat 12 pounds. A Turtle Schooner Arrives “Next day, Feb. 10th, proved |another cf excitement, though nothing to do with us. The Brit- ish turtle schooner, “A. M. Adams”, arrived. The turtle. ships come in twice a yeay and their | arrival is. quite o the event? | of the place and both natives and visitors flock to see the. turtles | brought ashore. The schooners go Off to near Nicaragua and come back with their catches alive, They come ashore in flat barges, laid. on their backs, and | overboard and doing valiant work. in the way of pushing ‘the boat since I came here I did not t ke my ¢amera, and how I regretted. it. Never will I forget the scene in the rising sun of Mrs. Griess | and the mate standing up to their |middles on a sand bank in the! Gulf of México, and I watched |the sunrise with a whisky and soda in one hand and a cheese sgndwich im the other, whilst.we got the boat moving . and left (them. _’ ry | In due. course. we picked them up and. got'ifitothe harbour soon | after 8 a, m:,.and: when we land- ed our catch the jewfish and the , tarpon, we found we had once include the Navy as a “physical asset” it.|they have their flippers tied to-|more achieved “the catch of the does not include streets, public roads, etc. On the basis of this valuation, the na- tion’s physical assets in 1930, in terms of the predevaluation dollar, amount to $2,- Of this $1,233 represents production assets and $1,530 represent comfort goods. NO BACKGROUND? Whenever you hear someone boast of their pet’s pedigree and its fancy fore- bears, you sort of feel sorry for the mutt But con- has beaten the world’s milk yield for twenty-nine days short of a year. The amount was 38,648 pounds of milk. And no pedigree! This cow, a little red one named “Cherry”, is between eight and nine years old. She has had five calves and the owner of Cherry hopes one of the new babies will live to break a record. And then someone will pop up with a song of. pedigree and Cherry will feel called upon > produce ancestors from the Mayflower, and spoil the whole thing. \gether with thatch cord, and | these are cut as the turtle are |pushed in the water called a ‘turtle crawl’. This, alas, is next 'séason”. Mrs. Griess. ‘phoned \the hotel for my camera and her Poodle, Ch. Amour of the Misty Isles, to come down to the dock | | py here, and it must be very de- |lightful running a paper with no competition. trial of printers’ errors, and 1, pulled his leg over my 2 lb. bar- racuda. He got out files andj looked it up to verify the error. | and we all laughed together, for thé staff joined in the joke, and} then before leaving promised him an article giving my impressions! on Key West. Mr. Artman is a| very pleasant man and I muchly | enjayed meeting a fellow editor. Last night Mr. Griess. telephon- led from New York, where he is at, present, for,, the, Westminster | dog show... He:told us that aut| turtle had made news in the}: leading Boston paper, and. then and. did it weigh 350. Ibs?” Imag- ine our feelings. We now find that our turtle catch is so famous it has been door to the turtle canning fac-| immediately, and discovered that| reported in no fewer ‘than 50! |tory, and after 24 hours in the|our absence had caused consid-' American. papers, only |erawl they are turned into soup erable anxiety, a car had waited Griess and I regret they did not| and other things. The turtles afe’ till 1 a. m, to bring us back, and | give the credit due to Capt. Key , caught. by spreading. nets close to, they had sat up till the smalljand his brother, as our feet |the bottom of the sea, and the hours waiting for us. However,!makes us appear a couple of schooner we watched unloaded all’s well that ends well, only we | Amazons. | ‘some 370, Naturally, after our. catch, I was interested in the weight, so asked, the man at the |seales if he would. tell me the number of. pounds. the turtles were. making, and. I, fgund the average was round about 90'.to events we planned to be back at) ‘useful creatures as their meat is |shipped to Florida.” markets, where the steaks are . delicious (alleged—I thought it’ was like | tough veal), soup is made of the gelantinous. and the shells are carved into ornamental use. We have had another go at the | wily tarpon, and again I had |the novice’s luck. ‘Leaving at |p. m. we went across into the Gulf, of Mexico, and. when about | 20, miles out, dropped, anchor. in. to catch a jewfish, huge creatures felt a little crushed, when the manager of the Casa Marina said, “If you plan to spend all night ishing, just let-me. know and I ywill have your dog looked after”, for fn’ the ordinary course of pb a . whereas it was just 10 a. )m. the, follownig morning when } we entered: the: hotel and’ being lout..all, night was anything but | what'-we -wanted. » But what an lexperience. I wouldn't” have / missed it for anything. ‘The President In Key West Today the local paper an- 'nouneed, that President Roosevelt _is to. visit Key West in the near future on his way to review the all the, town is agog. The Presi- ident is a very keen fisherman, ,also. the Overseas Highway—the jlong road, over. bridges, which jeonnects this part of Florida with A Climatic Revelry | | We are going out tarpon fish- | ing again tonight, leaving at 2 |p, m., so I must stop my notes as | |E want to get, in a’ bath before | lunch. I think probably, at the end, of, this week we shall be/ moving over to the fashionable ; Miami, so in my next diary I'll be able to tell you about the sotialities. Mr. Griess telephoned | us from New ‘York last night and told us all: about Westminster |us up again and tell us the name | |of the supreme dog at the con- ‘clusion of the fixture. And ‘so for the moment, au revoir, and how I am revelling in the glor- am as fit as the proverbial fid- | dle. An English paper to hand. | today depicts snow scenes. I am | not, envious, PHYLLIS ROBSON. We talked. of the , show and has promised to ring |} ious climate. I love the heat and || TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1939 cece Puke ° Honor Rolls of the Key West Junior and Senior High Schools for the past period follows: Senior High School Honor point average 3.00, Ray Perez, Jessie Watkins; 2.75, Rob- ert Atkins, Louise Collins, Walter McCook; 2.660, Anita Berkowitz; 2.50, Allen Neil Roberts; 2.40, Mario Naroles, Edwin Berkowitz; 2.25, Louis Ovide, Griselda Gar- cia; 2.00, Susan Roberts, Sam Collins, Ottolee _ Kirchheiner, Phillip Orta, Elizabeth Roberts. Donald Lowe, Ray Demeritt, Shirley Elbertson, Ella Nicolai, Lorraine Harrington, George Henriquez, Roland, Keeton; 1.80, Virginia Knowles, Betty Hen- riquez, Nellie Louise Russell, Eleanor Carney, Betty Lewin, Milton Appel; 1.75, Dolores Roma- guerro, Olga Camo, Lillie Mae Carey, Howard. McDonald, George Cates, ‘Mildred Whitley, Dorothy Curry, Sergio Alvarez, Alicia Borges, Ruth Currie, Lois Ma- lone; 1.60, Harry Knight, Carmen McBeth, Shirley — Pierce, Einhorn; 1.50, Charles Aguero, Barbara Curry, Joan McMullen, Olga Machado, Nellie Perez, Tony Soldano, Geraldine Kennedy, Lois Lowe, Richard Chapman, Phyllis Matcovitch, Eugene Fa- bal, Rogelia Gomez, Earl Gar- lotte, Arthur Hollerich, Charlotte Mercer, Marian Taylor. Junior High School Honor point average 3.00, Eli- nor Larsen; 2.75, Julius Napoles, Eugene Rosam, Nestro Casten- ada; 2.60, Roy Rogers, Charles "2.50, James Singleton, Leona Spillman; 2.40, Catherine and ; thought he had be - Ce ; 2,25, Amalia Blanco, | shells and we gradually drew him proved a great beauty. 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Charles Cervantes, Shirley Bullard, Hen- rietta Carey; 2.20, George Baker, Yvonne Steward; 2.00, Jack Saw- yer, Billy Cates, Wilma De Loach, Noelia Bravo, Orlando Rodriguez, Dorothy Johnson, Alice Salgado, Edna Hoff, Charles Wallace, Eu- gene Berkowitz, Betty Kline, Floyd Russell, Rosalind Albury; 1.80, Jack Appel, Ernestine Evans, Muriel Lockrow, Richard Skel- ton, Henry Vinson, Margaret Pin- der, Peter Perez; 1.75, Charles Perez, John Day, Eola Johnson, Laudelina Perez; Patricia Albury, George Jensen, Solidad Gon- alez, Barbara Curry, Gustavo Disdier; 1.60, Juanita Hughes, jie Pere Sylvia Sawyer, Ever- eit Sweeting, Arthur Valladares, Zenaida Yado, Betty Myers, How- ard Russell; 1.50, Armando Can- alejo, Gloria Hernandez, Barbara Johnson, Join Marzyck, Rose Saunders, Ruth Skelton, Vera Waite, Helio Gomez, Fred John- ra Ann Lowell, Copelyn y, Gloria Acevedo, Orlando jowles, Mary nchez, Nellie s, Robert Al- bury, Emma Ayala, Monteen Bryant, Osca Fabal, Catherine Saunders, Glenwood Torres. 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