The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 5, 1939, Page 2

. . RAGE TWO THE KEY WEST CITIZEN FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1939 ~ She Key West Citizen | CLASSIFIED wocccccccccccere| MARIGOLD ; | eee ee| e eeoece ecceccseeecooe | PEOPLE'S FORUM OLD HOME WEEK MURDER Although we have a serious unem- 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 unly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monros 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 crelited to it or pot etherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One-Year .... Six Months Three Months . Qne Month Weekly - ADVERTISING RATES Mate known on application, SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of <espect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at the rats of 10 cents a line. . Notices for entertainment by churches from 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 st but it will not publish anonymous communi- (MPROVEMENTS 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. America, too, has its atrocities. the ladies call them hats. But Maybe Joe Louis could persuade Mr. Hitler that there is little or nothing in this | Aryan race stuff. Next week is National Music Week, but that doesn’t mean you may toot your own horn to your heart’s content, Why not adopt an American child or - agree to pay for its upkeep instead of do- ing the same for the children of Europe? But that wouldn’t be so glamorous! The fellow who says an old maid is too particular, evidently hasn’t taken into | consideration that if she hadn’t been par- ticular she wouldn’t have been an old maid. Advertising of the right eventually bring here more people than the island can accommodate. Nobody can be-expected to GIVE us that advertising, though. We have reached the stage in Key West where a man is judged socially by whether he calls it “perspiration”, or just refers to the exudation of sensible moisture through the pores of the skin as “sweat.” “Anything is possible!’ declares L. P. Artman in his Key West Citizen. “Some ~ day you will find a wife in Key West who thinks her husband is as brilliant a man as he thinks he is.’ When you do r.s.v.p.— Times-Uni ’ Enforcement of a 50-mile speed limit - in Pennsylvania resulted in a reduction of | 34 per cent in highway fatalities last year. That ought to point the way to states ~ where the death rate and the speed limit ~ are.too high. . Every family has an individual who “bears the burden of the other members, and some individuals of every family have “no eompunction in bringing this situation about, even taking a sort of impish delight | ~% creating the condition. - The Citizen, too, like the Miami - Herald “does not go in for submitting ma- terial for consideration of the Pulitzer) Award Committee”, for the same reason | but not disclosed by the Herald that there | “was nothing of merit to submit. . The Miami Daily News was awarded | ~ the highest honors—the Pulitzer Award— | ~ for its meritorious efforts that resulted in | the recall of the city commissioners, ac- | cused of demanding a bribe from the Flor- | “ida Light and Power Co. Heartiest con- | _gratulations! ~ England is trying the “appeasement” theory on the United States with the _~same old blarney, but will find that Uncle ‘Sam can be “appeased”—but not to the extent of engaging in the fight—by the re- “turn of some of the five billion borrowed | “during the World War and never re- sort will | | over snow drifts and ride waves. | need of collecting and storing electricity | from lightning and a power axe for chop- | THE TIME FOR CLEAR THINKING | | | ployment problem on our hands, farm sur- | pluses, and limited industrial markets, the | people of America can still boast of being | the richest nation on earth. We own 80 ver cent of the world’s automobiles, 60 per cent of its telephones, | 38 per cent of its railroads and more than 50 per.cent of all monetary gold. We have | a greater purchasing power than Europe ‘00 | and Asia combined—with their inhabitants of more than one billion. \ Our territory includes only six per cent of the world’s area. Our 130 million | citizens compose only seven per cent of the world’s population. Yet we consume 48 | per cent of the world’s coffee, 21 per cent | of its sugar, 56 per cent of its rubber, 69 | per cent of its petroleum, 57 per cent of its | copper, 42 per cent of its pig iron, 72 pen | cent of its silk, more than 50 per cent of | its tin. But even more important than this | material wealth are the riches we possess | in our individual freedom—our right to | voice our opinions, to worship God as we choose, and to elect our own leaders. Every effort to wreck our unity with propaganda, designed to breed internal hatred and confusion, must be squelched at its very source. Every attempt to pro- | mote bitterness and suspicion, within our | own ranks, must be suppressed with logic \'and common sense. Those who would | preach bigotry and intolerance, or uncon- | sciously endorse such hazards to our unity | by their silence, as simply aiding and abetting enemies who yearn for the de- struction of our democracy. Our enemies know they can destroy our Americanism if they can provoke strife and discord among the various elements which com- pose our population. With devilish eun- ning, they know America will lose its strength as a world power the moment our unity begins to crumble—the minute we begin to tolerate attacks upon each other’s civil, religious and political privileges. civil war can be more cruel and brutal than any other catastrophe that may befall a i nation. Currently, the nations of Europe are demonstrating that a divided people lapse of one democracy after another. As long as the people of the United States can live together in harmony, with respect for the rights of each other, and with absolute loyalty to Americanism ideals, we will have a foundation of eter- nal strength upon which our national de- fense can be builded with confidence. The | principle of united nation will always be the keystore of our national defense needs. THEY SUGGEST! Bless science, we will get it yet! They inform us that the world is yearning for a genius to discover a process of extracting honey and sugar from flowers instead of leaving it to the bees. We are in need of a process to extract milk and _butterfat from feeds as are given to cows. They sug- gest we can use an auto that will skim The ping down trees, are a couple of “must haves” for us moderns. The idea of a fabricated seat for farm machines, instead of the metal ones which are not so pleasant on cold and wet days, isn’t such a bad idea. What next— YESTERDAY'S PAPER | Yesterday’s paper will do. I know that there’s much that is new:— There are items quite stirring On Hitler and Goering, And a lot of cold facts and a lot of inferring,— And how do I know what is true? Somewhere there must be a view Of skies that are quiet and blue, A place to forget How the National Debt And the bonds of taxation are weaving a net, And the world’s in a state of ragout. I'm getting out of the stew, Away from the hullabaloo! I've stopped all my wishing And I'm going fishing,— And out on the stream with my slender line | Yesterday’s paper will do! “turned—not even a token. —D. V. D., in Wali Street Journal. Our own history has taught us that | only paves the way for the complete col- i 1@ccencceseos: cones! BAPTISTS IN SPAIN | Editor. The Citizen: | During the war in Spain many | newspapers in our country, at times through ignorance or Com- ‘munistic propaganda, imitated people of olden days by figura-! tively stoning Franco. After his |victory, instead of large xpocks, some use. pebbles or dust,. and’ prophecy how he will act if th: future. Be Walter Winchell, assuming the Tole of religion’s oracle, accord- .ing to “The Bulletin” of Augus- ta, Ga., asserted that Protestant, ‘leaders would soon release statis- tics showing Franco’s persecu- |tion of Protestant ciergymen. His !figures are still missing. But the Spanish Baptist Evan- |gelical Union thanks the Nation- alist Government for liberty of | worship, which started in Barce-| ‘Jona, Sunday, February 12. | |A BELIEVER IN TRUTH AND FAIR PLAY. Key West, Fla., May 5, 1939. ! | KEY WEST IN _ DAYS GONE BY ! § Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen Dr. George R. Plummer, of Key West, who held the rank of ma- |jor during the world war in the | United States army, has _ been, recommissioned for a period of \five years in the-medical corps. | |Dr. Plummer is the discoverer of | granular calcium, a substitute for | medicinal liquor in influenza and | | pneumonia and is in line for the) next Nobel prze for the best con- | tribution to human welfare. | Editorial Comment: A guilty| ; conscience needs no accuser. It \is surprising the number of peo- | ple who say and think they are! meant when an uncomplimentary | item appears in this column. If) | the shoe fits wear it, if not quit | your squawking. | | The Pirates won from the) Sluggers yesterday in a very in- teresting game, which lasted for 10 innings and ended when ‘the, |Pirates put over the winning | |running, making the score 7 to 6. | Key West film recently made, | by Claude Matlack of New York | will be given a preview tomorrow | |in the Strand Theatre, exclusive | |for the the county commission- | {ers, Chamber of Commerce and} |newspaper people. If found .sat-| |isfactory the picture will be | shown at one of the local theatres so that all of the people of Key | West may see it. | George I. Way, engineer on the | |Tender Sundew, who recently | ‘underwent two different opera-/| | tions at the Marine hospital, re-| | ported for duty on. beard his ship this morning. During his illness C. E. Pangle, Jr., first assistant engineer on the Ivy filled his! place. | Trial of Congressman Alfred | Michaelson of the Seventh Illin- | ois District, whose home is in Chicago, indicted on charges of violating the prohibiton laws,’ was set for 10 o’¢lock tomorrow! morning by Ju Halsted SL. | Ritter,. presiding ag the sessionyof , United States Court, which con- |vened this morning in Key West. | |The Chicago congressman arriv-| ed this morning and announced | that he is ready for the hearing. . The distinguished defendant | | seemed but little concerned about | |his hearing and after the case was postponed mingled with the people in the court room and| talked Florida in general. First program of National Mu-| \sic Week, under the able direc- |tion of Miss Veronica Davis, was'| | successfully carried out at-Bay-! view Park yesterday. A large | land appreciative audience gath-| ered to hear the various numbrs/ played by the city band and other |musical organizations of the | Junior-Senior High School. The! address of Reverend Thomas; ! Hewitt on the aim and purpose cf | | Music Week. was the outstanding | feature of the program, emphasi: ing. as, it did. the uplifting force) ‘evening in the high school audi- | torium there will be a review of | American music in which a num- ber of talented musicians of Key, West will be featured. f Sanchez Estrada and Rudolph | Arango, representatives of the, Cuban department of agriculture, who passed through the city last , returned yesterday and are in Key West investigating the Spanish fruit fly situation ile in Key West they the guests of Ralph Milner e local office of the Plant) jon English by C. A. {of musie in the community. This |, ‘Where did your hair get so much gold To blind the human eye? Was it the sun at setting dropped A handful from the sky? Or did you hypnotize the moon On a bewitching night, And stealing an apronful of stars To make your hair so bright?” —MAGALI DE LEON. Member of The Creative Poetry Group of Key West High School, sponsored by Hildegard Ott Russell. ve DELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen eeeacccvercoccensqeccese Warnings have been issued | against a new counterfeit $10 bill. The counterfeiters did a pretty good job, but neglected to engrave a license plate on the picture of an automobile stand- ing near the Treasury building. At the request of their vicar, the Rev. W. G. White, members of a parish in Haughley, Eng- land, have signed a pledge not to indulge in gossip. The parish- ioners no doubt mean well, but it is feared that in some cases |the pledge will meet the fate of most New Year's resolutions. Inhabitants of the village of Ribieres, France, fled from their homes a few days ago when Rene Drouet, a French soldier, drove through the streets shouting “Hitler is marching on Paris.” | They returned after being con-| vinced thet they had been vic- tims of a mean hoax. Private automobiles have been banned from Bermuda for 20) years, and even the governor is not permitted to have one. Af- ter two requests for a car had, been denied by the Assembly, Governor Sir Reginald Hildyard resigned his office. The United States ean not boast of five human quintuplets, | as Canada can, but five living kids were recently born to a mother goat owned by L. M. Chanler of Fremont, Ala, This is said to be the first set of! quintuplet goats on record. Frank Dasso of the Little Rock team pitched the first no-; hit, no-run game of the 1939 pro- fessional baseball seasom against the Memphis club, the score be- | ing 7 to 0. He struck out 11 batters, and only three -reached first base, one on a pass and the | other two on errors. Dr, Richard Kittle has called on a Cleveland man for*the fee! earned when the doctor: officiat- led at his birth 27 year8 ago. The young man agreed to pay the debt of $15, which His parents had neglected to settlg. An odd question and answer, which makes sense if one can figure it out, is quoted in a book loyd: “We | were there from two to: two to two two. How long were you there?” “We were there from two to: two. to two two, too.” by Phoebe Atwood Tayler : had received. It was written on The Characters _ Asey Mayo, Cape Cod sleuth. Bay Thayer, sprightly girl re- porter. Yesterday: Asey concludes that the fire near Slade’s studio was set to keep people away from the murder scene. Chapter 25 Fool Or Fiend? SEY looked down at the “Get Out, Stay Out” message, Slade a] ently official Billingsgate notepaper, with the town seal and names of ne town officials engraved on the side. “Bertha,” he called. “Say, Bertha, you got a spare program? Can I have it?” os He flipped through the pages un- til he came to a facsimile letter, a gyrating from the town officials to ingsgate’s guests. The heading was similar to the one on Slade’s message, but there were several differences. Underneath the town ' seal were the words “Old Home Week,” and at the foot were the dates of the founding of the first settlement and its later incorpora- tion as a town. Bertha glanced over his shoul- der. ‘That's a nice letter, isn’t it? Aunt Sara wrote it, And that swell new paper. Uncle Jeff says that the new paper's worth the trouble of Old Home Week, all by itself. He likes nice paper, and he never could get them to buy that ex- { pas kind. Aunt Sara said to ear him talk, you’d think the only thing he done for this Old Home Week was to get that paper.” “You can’t tell much about it from this picture,” Asey said, “is it colored?” “There’s a box full of it in Uncle Jeff's desk,” Bertha said. “W don’t you look at it? He wouldn’t mind. He show. it to everyone.” Asey strolled into the living room with Bertha, who produced the pzper from a bottom drawer. “See? White with blue engrav- ing. Brinley wanted yellow and blue, like the town colors, but Jeff put his foot down.” “An’ with due an’ just reason.” Asey said. “Yessiree, that’s swell. That’s a swell breakfast, too. Say, how do you feel about your jelly prospects up to the show? When's the judgin’?” “Saturday they give the cups,” Bertha said. “Silver cups. I thought mine was pretty good, but there’s some mighty fine jelly up there. I went up yesterday.” “Don't give it a thcught, how it looks,” Asey said. “Looks don’t mean a thing. ] seen some that was done up all fancy, an’ folks was sayin’ how nice it looked, but it was what my mother used to call spindtin’. Yours is probably dark an’ gummy, like it ought to be. Thanks, Bertha.” After she left, Asey took down | the name of the printer from the cardboard box of town paper, and after several minor skirmishes with various phone operators, he got his man in New Bedford. He hung up the receiver with a feeling of elation. The last lot of old paper had Been delivered to Billingsgate io ng before Christ- mas. The new paper had been or- dered and sent in January. ‘Asey sat down and ovulled out his pipe. J. Arthur had written that message, but he had written it long ago, and it had been plant- ed in Slade’s studio by someone else. He looked again at the paper. It had been ironed over, he de- cided, but near the top was cer- tainly a place where a pin had pricked through. He rumpled the paper and held it to the light. Yes, the paper had been pinned some- where, but not at the studio. Slade said he found it on his table, held down by an ash tray. ‘T wonder,” Asey said, “if — | sure!” Plagued Beyond Endurance ARTHUR BRINLEY was an irascible sort. Suppose he were { pep making tax lists or figuring, and peo} at that moment was a genuine surprise”: say. “veritable” or “real sur- prise”. TEST YOUR | KNOWLEDGE Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers 1. Name the city situated on the last of the chain of Florida Keys. | 2, Who commanded Army at. the Gettysburg? On which continent are go-— rillas native? | Which birthday did Adolf! Hitler recently celebrate? | Where is Alcatraz Island What is the correct pronun-! ciation of the word crypto- What large observatory e Union| ttle of 3. 4. 5. 6. is located on Mount Hamil- { ton, Calif.? | | time, or ple tsterrupted him. Sup- was around town meeting the time of some celebra- tion, and a crowd was outside as there had been the other day, lay- ing for Weston, He could see Arthur, plagued ee cc ance, scrawling jus! e sO! o! thing on a paper, and pinning it up on the door outside, and feeling that he had taken a great step for- ward toward securing peace. It was a gesture that Weston or Jeff would never have found it neces- sary to make, but somehow it seemed like Brinley. At any rate it was a guess. Then someone had happened past the door and taken the paper off. Perhaps for the fun of it and without any plat. in mind, and rhaps to save it for something e Kay Thayer strode in and perehed on the arm of a chair. “Sitting here with seueaelt she a too. I smelled’em. It’s dis It’s decadent. I'm up at of dawn, and I get corn meal mush. pose it HARRISON FAMILY Mr, and Mrs. Z. D. Harrison ‘J.| been finding thin, T hate corn meal mush. We used to have it at school. I tell you, there is no—” “Don’t say justice,” Asey told her, “please. Gas listenin’ rf Mrs. rinley an’ Comrade Slade on jus- tice, I don’t want the word brought up anywheres near me for some- time to come. There’s too many ’ ideas about it.” laughed. “How did you squelch Slade, anyway? He was up at the station, dressed like a thy capitalist in white flannels and a blue coat. Hr was.being po- lite to tourists and guiding old an genuitie half sheet of ao to ah: seats and generally ing we man from Cook’s, Tremendously active man, and he seemed very efficient. Hehe doce Asey sald, “is ie doe, 8 m= sible f jeows Pomebiek, He out talked final! e give in an’ said he’d behave himself. 1 think he was itehin’ to get to his | committees, really. An’ he was get- tin’ sleepy, too, an’ it was the eas- iest way out. By the way, ain’t you playin’ hookey from ail the gov- ernors? Think of ’em, speechin’ away. “T did.” Kay shuddered. “Of the three here today, two always sta- tion men around to make sure you don’t get away with less than six copies of any speech they make, and the other one never says any- | paig anyways Jeff promised to tell = said if I were really anxious about it, he’d tell me before they spoke. I like Jeff. Asey, he seems to know all about the murder, but he doesn’t say anything about it.” “Jeff knows,” Syne said, “he knew last night, While I'm sure Aunt Sara told him most every- thing, I give Jei# credit for havin’ guessed it mostly beforehand. He’s safe as a bank. That’s how he spent all them years in Congress, you know. Preservin’ a righteous ex- terior no matter how much he | knew. I wish Slade took after him. Slade’s theory seemed to be you ought to tell all you know—which is righteous enough, but not very e general trends. In fact, he | wise. What are your plans for the , day?” ‘The Last Billings’ “TM free for a while. I sent up stuff about Philbrick and the golden-voiced Tripp — what an sry pot he is! Anyway, 'bar.ged out the celebrity stuff yesterday. and Shorty’ll take it up, The gov- ernors aren’t really my job. I’m supposed to be local coloring—oh, Feu, haven’t heard about Win illings. You know him, the last Billings of Billingsgate?” “I know the old duffer. They washed him an’ dressed him up an’ stuck him on display—did he get loose?” “Well, he got a flock of drinks somewhere, and he stole the show at the station when the governors came. He k2pt yelling ‘Hurray for Grant,’ and fussing about the lack of decoration, He said when Grant | came the time before, they had the station covered with al] the best | turkey red carpets in town, and urns with trailing plants, and the General, he thought it was fine! He said so. They finally got Wir. under control, bu. he escaped in the flurry of the special train com- ing in, and wher Brinley got to presenting ‘This distinguished scion of our founder’s family,’ Win was gone. Brinley nearly had to be taken away in a stretcher, he COLUMN POSITION WANTED CAPABLE YOUNG LADY de- sires position as companion or nursemaid. Box VL, The Citi- zen. may5-2tx. LOST OR STOLEN. | GIRL’S ROLLFAST BICYCLE, lost or stolen from in front of Key West High School last eve- ning. Color, red and white. Reward and no questions asked if returned to Margaret White, 1500 Seminary street. may4-2tx LOST LOST—Small brown zipper Bill- fold containing money and postal money order. | Finder please return money order to The Citizen Office and keep money as reward. may4-3t LOST—Pair Tortoise Shell Eye Glasses. Please return to C. C. Symonette, 322 Elizabeth street and receive reward. may5-1t FOR SALE FOR SALE—Odd chairs, mirrors, booth partitions, 30-gal. hot water tank and heater. 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