The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 15, 1939, Page 2

wis es TWO The Key West Citizen | “Published Daily Except Sunday By | " THE CrviZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher | JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Buflding ! Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only 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 credited to | it or pot etherwise credited in this paper and also the idcal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Six Months Three Month: One Month ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of sespect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at the rat® of 10 cents a line. | jces for entertainment by churches from which nue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- f public issues and subjects of local or general rest but it will not publish anonymous communi- eations 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. No child labor law will keep the kids from working their parents. Take a vacation this summer whether | you can afford it or not; it won’t make any difference to us—you don’t owe us. Eleanor Roosevelt says in her column that she always enjoys an opportunity to see a “little’ baby. Why the designation; aren’t all babies “little?” As was expected, squawks are being | emitted from the tax dodgers, of course, concerning the break Senator Hodges has in store for the honest taxpayer. The paragrapher of the Times-Union has disproved convincingly the time-worn | fallacy that figures don’t lie. They do, he says, in the sun on the Florida beaches. P. E. B. in the Tampa Tribune says that Miami negroes, upon being threaten- ed, only turned out and voted in larger numbers than usual. He suggests that it might be a good thing for democracy if somebody would threaten the white folks. | Just a few days ago the weather was so cold up north that several baseball games were postponed. So Stay Through May, while apparently a mercenary | slogan,-is also a precautionary measure. The market value of an ounce of preven- tion is still worth a pound of cure. Hitler i is adopting the same technique | | against Poland that he adopted against | | Czechoslovakia — Germans are being | abused “in the Danzig region and must | have the protection of the Fatherland; of | course nothing but invasion of the terri- | tory and its absorption will suffice. | Several guava trees will be among the 350 commercial varieties of trees and plants*shown in Florida’s exhibit at the New York World’s Fair. Guava jelly has been popular in the north for some time, and visitors are always interested in see- ing this mimosaceous tree of West Indian | origin, and indigenous to Florida soil. The good cld days were when indus- trial firms hit the front pages because of large dividends rather than because of pay- ing hedvy taxes. For instance, the United States Steel corporation went into the hole | last year for mere than $7,000,000, chiefly because its taxes were more than $40,- 000,000. That leaves nothing for the in- vestor and nothing for expansion and de- velopment of the industry. } A correspondent in a Miami paper is | hot after Boake Carter and wants him de- | ported, as a renegade Englishman. Mr. | Carter, now a-guest on Cook’s Island near | Key West, isan American citizen and as_ such cannot be deported. But who wants | to get rid of a man who is opening our} eyes to the machinations of “perfidieus Albion?” He gives us’ facts, and facts have a habit of not being pleasant al- ways. | the city and county joined guaranteeing payment of 10 | capita for a spot on the Florida diorama. | | in the exhibits advertising the | Florida. | promoters of the plan under which all of | the 67 counties of the state were to be | publicized. | | situation. | been many s | Our public officials are too easily per- ! | suaded in the expenditure of public funds | | for publicity purposes. | with a financial scheme, any shapely and | appealing woman with a | or any high-pressure advertising racketeer | licity program seems to be able to get | promoter in the stateis just waiting until | | our mur | ficials should wake up to the fact they are | | being hoodwinked by | | Let's make the matter of buying advertis- | motion and appropriating money for air- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | Coeooceecccccoveccseseoocece POOOISOOUOOLCOUOOOROOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOSOOOS NO FAIR PUBLICITY Highlights Of Florida It has been reported to the Monroe | County Commission that Key West is be- | | ing given little or no publicity at the New | York World’s Fair. eenecceves This despite the fact | last year in | cents per | Naturally the county commission wants to know why Key West is not given a break state’ of | Letters will be forwarded to the | Practically no comment by The Citizen is needed to point the moral in this sad | The fact Key West got the | worst of a publicity or advertising ar- | rangement is nothing new. There have imilar instances in the past. | OLo TURPENTINE STILL DRAWS THOUSANDS TOURISTS FROM AlL PARTS OF NATION ARE RTTRRETED TO LEWES TURPENTINGE STULL @NO PLANTATION, BROOKSVILLE FLORIDA, 70 SEE COLORFUL PLANTATION LIFE AlID ROMANTIC _FLORIOR INDUSTRY AS UT EXISTED (N CIVIL WAR OBIS Any glib talker sure-fire plan | for projecting Key West into the spotlight | MERE MAY Be SEEN SOME 200 DSENDANTS OF HLOKIA SLAVES ENGAGED. IN THE LARGE-SCALE OF TURPENTINE EXACTLY RS WERE THEM ANCESTORS BLOT A CENTURY AGO PRESENTING BH APPEAL - QUITE OLFERENT FROM tl OTHbR FLORIO @ TTRACTIONS, with an attractive, though phony, pub- some of our tax dollars and transfer them | into their own pockets. Every tinhorn | WTS ISOLRTION TO A LIMITED FART \ OF FLORIOR ANDO ITS TOTHL ABSENCE IM ALL THE TERRITORY BETWEEN - SOUTH FLORIOR RNO THE WEST 17 HAS PROVEN TO GE AN GUSOLVED MYSTERY, ae 1 and county treasuries fill up again to make further raids for their own | benefit. | The Citizen believes our public of. ] such propositions. KEY WEST IN ‘FLORIDIANS PAID $24,700,000 | ing space, paying for publicity and pro- MONDAY, MAY 15, 1939 CLASSIFIED COLUMN BOATS FOR SALE i w CABIN CRUISER, 26’, steel, good! HARPER & CARR PLUMBING condition, fine fishing boat, $200 for quick sale. J. L. Alley. Tavernier, Florida. may9-7tx CO., 521 Simonton Street. Tel. 373. Expert work at reason- able prices. Estimates Free. SELLING OUT ENTIRE STOCK |FOR SALE—2 lots, each 50x100. | 'TYPEWRITING PAPER — 500 | BARGAIN—20 Lots on. Stock Is- SECOND SHEETS—500 for 50c | FURNISHED APARTMENT. 517 | ce ean ee CENTRAL HOTEL—Home of the apr27-lmo MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE FULL COURSE DINNER 30 cents at Johnny’s Manhattai- Diner. Fruit Juices. 627 Du- val street. apr26-l1mo FURNITURE of late Benjamin Tynes Furniture Store. All Stock selling below cost. Every- thing must go. Opén between | 1 and 5 p. m. daily. Corner Olivia and Windsor Lane. {YOUR OLD SUITS made to look may15-lwk like new. Apply White Star Cleaners. apr26-lmo Run from Washington to Von Phister street. $1,000. Apply rear 1217 Petronia street. apri4-s) Subscribe to The Citizen—20c weekly, “Key West's Outstanding!” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Strictly Fireproof Garage Open The Year Around sheets, 75c. The Artman Press, | may19-tt | land, $2,500. Brokers protect- ed. Apply “R”, The Citizen. may15-1mox | SECOND SHEETS 500 Sheets 50c MANILA, 8'xl1 The Artman Press. nov19-t! qn Sea FOR RENT Bahama St. may8-17tx | | FURNISHED GARAGE APART: | MENT. Electric Stove and Re- frigerator. Also, unfurnished apartment. 1502 South St. may8-tf largest and most comfortable rooms in town. Special Sum mer Weekly Rates now in ef- fect. All new furnishings. Cor- WHITE planes in aerocades and similar schemes a serious business. Other cities do not spend their money haphazardly for publicity and DAYS GONE BY | IN LIFE INSURANCE MONEY Wodiska & Co. cigar ner Southard and Duval streets. apr?-tf | SIGNS "For Rent”, “Rooms For TYPEWRITING | thet the automobile kills more people in | the United States every | death toll of the automobile is one of the | | old the railroads were made to pay hand- | that officials conduct a more thorough ex- i | amination into fatalities connected’ with | i gloriation. . . . other advertising media. They handle | such matters in a businesslike way, thus protecting the taxpayers’ money and in- suring results when they do decide to spend money for such purposes. The Citizen again suggests the ap- pointment of a small non-partisan com- mittee of newspapermen and publicity ex- perts to investigate every proposal for the expenditure of public money for advertis- ing and t6 report back to the city council or the county commission before any final | action is taken on any plan advanced along this line. | Every day in 1938 life insurance ; Corral |policy-holders and beneficiaries manufacturers; James E. John- lin Florida were paid $67,671, or a son, Tampa, president, Johnson | | total of $24,700,000 for the year, Distrbiuting Company, radios; | }according to a special compila-; Claibourne M. Phipps, Tampa, at- | Ninety-one persons were killed |tion by The National Underwrit- , torney; Jesse M. Tompsett, | in an explosion at the Cleveland er, weekly insurance newspaper., Tampa; Thurston E. Rupp, West | clini¢ hospital today, according to, This huge sum represents an Palm Beach, building constructor. | telegrams received at The Citizen increase of $600,000, or 2% per-! Life insurance payments in office. The victims included pa-; cent over the 1937 total of $24,-' Florida in 1938 equaled 37 per- | \tients, nurses and doctors. More, 100,000. The 1936 total was $22,-' cent of the $66,258,000 total sav- | than 100 persons were in the hos 800,000. jings bank deposits in the state |pital when two explosions oc-; Florida ranked 26th in life in-jlast year. Life insurance pay- curred in the X-ray room. Fire | surance payments among. all! ments:last year equalled 70 per- |broke out immediately after the’ states, while it is 31st in size of|cent of the $35,226,829 total as- explosions. There were no pa- population. The per capita pay-|sets of building and loan associa- | |tients on the first floor. Those! ment in 1938 was $15.04, core aans in Florida. The state’s un- trapped on the second floor seem-/ pared to $14.67 the year before. | employment insurance fund of ed to be stunned and unable to'! Miami, Leads Cities | $7,053,527 at the end of the fis- | escape from the trap when those | Miami led Florida cities in life|cal year in 1938 was only per- | exposed to the fumes were taken | insurance payments in 1938 with|cent of the life insurance’ pay- ‘out. Their faces and hands were $2,315,000 compared to $2,196, 000 ments, } |discolored by gas. Firemen from}in 1937. Miami ranked 6st! a dozen companies, police and|among all cities in the country.' passengers fought the flames and | Jacksonville was second in pay- attempted to rescue those still, ments in Florida with $2,115,000 trapped in the building. The jin 1938 and $2,196,000 in 1937. dead and dying were rushed to|Mianii Beach came third with hospitals and some laid on the $1,845,000. % ground near the hospital. Sev- Other cities followed in this or- eral doctors, and nurses and. pa- der: Tampa, $1,200,000; St. Pe- tients were trapped on the roof. tersburg, $710,000; Daytona, The firemen made desperate ef- Beach, $596,000; Orlando, $490,-; forts to save them but it was be- 000; Pensacola, $415,000; Lake- lieved to be a hopeless task. Pe- Jand, ,000; West Palm Beach, | destrians for a block around were | $318, Creed rasota, $298,000;! D A I L Y Q U I Z affected by the gas. There were Gainesville, $236,000; Tallahassee, | ss | insufficient ambulances to carry | $262,000; Quincy, $255.000; Lake Can vou Answer seven of these the victims to the hospitals, which ' City, $184,000. | Test Questions? Turn to were overfilled. The building pawments On Prominent People! Page 4 for the Answers ; Was a mass of flames when thé) Prominent people in Florida’ —«. “ - explosion was over. X-ray film$ maturing life insurance policies’ 1 Is the star? land several tanks of oxygen ex+ dip whee ; pin tA Jast year through death or ¢n-' 2. Name the tallest of all mam- ploded: intensifying the flames. | dowment, are: is? | 4 Pas Be } ore bet t ‘alter a Knight,. Bunneil,' 3. is @ cen > The amazing complacence of the peo- Caps and gowns were a distin- Ff soe Sd saecan E: B. Gaudet. i“ ine neta name ple of this courtry towards the astounding | suishing feature of the graduat- Daytona Beach, general insur- | of Paul kunyan associat- ing exercises of the .Convent of ance’and ‘agent, Jefferson Stand- | ed? | Mary: Immcaulate last night at afd Life; Edward H. Armstrong. Who is Sir Roger Roland | the San Carlos theater. Twelve Daytona Beach, mayor; Dr.’ Charles Backhouse? | young girls with all the sweet-' James G. Baskin. Dunnellon; How long is a decade? = pes ‘ are aes }mess which characterizes the! William J. Howey, Howe-in-the- , What is the correct pronun- somely for the demise of a_ citizen, IM- |<cweet -giel: graduate”, acquitted |Hills: Jéies B: Hedges’ Lake! aes ot Tie aa aie. paled at a crossing, but the automobile | themselves in the numbers of the City, chairman. Florida State | lorie? rarely affords any compensation in event program with the _ dignity that Democratie Executive Commit> | Name the highest mountain of injuries or deaths. |distineuishes the Convent train- tee; David ugerman, Miami in the world, computed _ ase ed girl wherever she is met. Beach, wholesale grocer; Henry ; from sea level. The Citizen has Bibs tees Levy. Miami Beach, president,; 9 What are pelagic animals? Editorial Comment: If you Normandy Beach Development 39 What. does nom-de-plume | don’t think the population of Key Company; Herman Silverstein, : nieen? | West is increasing. ask Miss Min-' Miami Beach, proprietor. stove | en nie Porter Harris, local statistic- company; Alfred J. Sweet, Miami , lian for State Board of Health. Beach, investor; Edward Romfh,' Pleasing You . . . Delights Us There were 83 more births than banker, Miami; William P. West, ARM |deaths in 1928. Pompano, proprietor, Hammond | STRO BRAND COFFEE CUBAN and AMERICAN Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen SNAKES VS. AUTOMOBILES There are citizens of Key West who have heard that snakes kill 20,000 persons annually in India and, for that reason, have made up their minds that India is a very dangerous place. They even won- der, sometimes, why the government doesn’t do something in India to rid the people of such peril. < The citizens of this republic TODAY’S COMMON ERROR De not say, “He received a financial reward of five hundred dollars”; say, “pe- forget year than the snakes kill in India. As the New York Times pcints out “the Hindu peasant, go- ing about his work, has nearly five times: as good a chance to escape a cobra as the” American citizen Higg to escape a motor r.” mi 5. mysteries of modern life. In the days of | 6. We 8, urged repeatedly | automobile accidents. Many of them are avoidable, and would not oceur if the drivers of all cars knew that punishment , awaited carelessness. The usual “un- are Development Co.; Eugene M. avoidable” accident is taken as a matter of ,_ Charles Toole, chief of the Vero Collins, Quincy, tobacco dealer; | course nowadays whenever a motor ve- | Beach Fire Department, is a visi- Proctor’K. Smiley; St. Pétersburg. | tor in Key West, and makes the president. Home Service Laun- hicle snuffs out the life of a person. It is | |statement that every Key West dry; John W. Gibson, Sneads, outrageous! * ‘automebile which rolls into the; naval stores cperator and oe eter ee Fs ee | Beach is greeted cordially by the |‘ M: nel Corral, T: s ceccencteovcsoccoseoe | Beach people and the passengers Life begins at 40_—at least that was about the age when Hitler got his start. are asked if anything can be terday called to Homestead by’ PALACE | | done, which may add to . the Mrs. Pinder, who sustained slight! | pleasure of their visit: Mr: injuries in an automobile acci- Carole Lombard=James Stewart | Toole ca¥s the fast’friendship be- dent yesterday, but was reported In the year 1660 there appeared a let~ |tween this flourishing city and not to be in any danger. —also— | ter in an English newspaper titled, “The | the wri of his fagarsat is gen- Ae Sas Bee cena ox el nina i ” | uine and thoroughly sincere. } tighter was born ae ee } Loud Call to England,” reading, in part, | to Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Albury in “The country today as-well as: the town | Mrs. Horace ce B. Gould left this|theif home’ in’Key West) The a | abounds with vanity; sin now appears with | peot snk er beside cron her! refed ae Sel oie - tos “pare mot who | : brazen face. That wicked spirit ationg ese injured im ari automobile ac-| is the representative for men, that formerly was curbed and re- cident while enroute to Miami county at the state strained, doth now audaciously and im-| yesterday. |Was congratulated by that. body | pudently show itself with boasting. amd c...¢ paigh Finder, of the Key|in Tellahansse following word ae ” Tt was ever thus, | West Fire Department, was yes: pa from Key West. | PAPER 500 Sheets 75¢ —THE-— ARTMAN PRESS The Citizen Bldg. PHONE 51 nil Rent”, “Apartment For Rent”, | “Private Property, No Tres- passing”, 15c each. THE ART- MAN PRESS. nov25-tf ROOMS NEW VALDEZ INN, 521 United. Sixteen beautiful new rooms. | Across South Beach. Phone! 9135. feb23-tf ! 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