The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 19, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO ’ The key West Citizen 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 Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monrose County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press ciated Press is exclusively entitled to use | publication of all news dispatches credited to ‘or pot etherwise credited in this paper and alsa | *he fecal news published here. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES gine Year | Six Months Three Months e Month $10.00 6.00 2150 “85 20 f | * Made known on application. | | SPECIAL NOTICE | eading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of | ct, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at | he rate of 10 cents a line, Notices for entertainment by churches from which nue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. “itizen is an open forum and invites discus- public issues and subjects of local or general est but it will not publish anonymous communi- éations ————_— (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. { Most governments take as much as | _they can in taxes and give as little as they | can in service. A politician must be an acrobat, cap- | -able of straddling the fence while keeping an ear to the ground. -Oddities in the English language: A ~bell peals, and a belle peels; a belle also can peal if she is inclined that way. Bonds on the market as well as the bonds of matimony are not as secure as they should be and need strengthening. - | E: It is related that a burglar entered a home to rob and as he neared the bath- _Toom a nude woman stepped out. Being a modest burglar he covered her with his 7revolver. As a reward for their tax delinquen- cies in the past, the Florida legislature through the insidious Murphy Act not only forgave the tax dodgers their sins of omis- sion but put a further premium on them by remitting the taxes for both 1938 and 1939. The time has come again for the regular taxpayers to pay their taxes—| _those of 1938, and next year those for 1939, while in the meantime the tax dodgers sit supinely back and give the honest taxpayer the horse laugh for his * “good citizenship. P The Key West Citizen, normally -brightly happy in its editorial utterances, gets ‘skeptical, now and then—and when that happens, the well known fur is liable “to fly. Somewhat along this line, Editor L. P. Artman = recently noted: “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 defeated in the World War if this country had not =eome to the rescue of her and her allies. "Naturally, he feels now that ‘there is frouble in the wind’ Uncle Sam must be flattered and cajoled so he will play the gucker once again. But it will be found | that the long-legged and bewhiskered hay- | “seed won’t buy gold bricks the second +ime.”’—Times-Union. The enabling act, introduced in the ALegislature by Representative Papy, by which the city of Key West will tax wage | #arners from 50 cents to $1.00 each month br the purpose of sponsoring federal proj- ects, while undoubtedly unconstitutional, is nevertheess a worthy one, and_ should ‘meet with the approval of everyone. Very | little opposition is heard, though disap-| proval has been voiced by wage earners who receive less pay in private employ- ment than those on relief. It has also been stated that those on relief in the higher “brackets as well as all other wage earners | sshould have been required to pay on a ‘graduating scale. However, no law. has ever been devised to meet the approval of | everyone, and if we put quibbling aside | ‘and wholeheartedly join in this effort} ‘to sponsor federal projects, all will greatly | ‘henefit; if not, it will result in detriment to the whole community, | for literature of this | World’s Fair. | formation and just the kind that will in- | | West” booklets seem to fit that kind of de- | pose will be money well | tention to the “huge” amount of publicity KEY WEST BOOKLETS DEMANDED | Requests for additional supplies of the Key West booklets describing the beauties, the assets and the facilities of the city are again accumulating at the of- | fices of the Chamber.of Commerce. The | interest shown in Key West is‘ general | throughout the couniry and in many sec- tions of the world. The booklets seem to | meet the ordinary demands of the in- | terested persons writing the Chamber. i One of the most important requests | kind reached the | Chamber this week from officials of the | Florida State Exhibit at the New York | It is requested that 500 of | the “Welcome to Key West” booklets be sent to the exhibit on Orange Blossom Lane at the fair on the 15th of each month until October 15. This is a minimum or- der; the exhibit officials will notify the Chamber if the monthly supplies should be increased. It is interesting to note that exhibit of- ficials state that while the folder is not in colors it contains “scme very valuable in- | terest a large number of folk who are visiting the fair and who are potential visitors to Key West.” Fair visitors are average-folk just like the citizens of: Key West. They are not easily fooled by gaudy eolors and — extravagant boosting. What théy want are facts straight from the shoulder—facts that will enable them to deternine whether they want to investi- gate conditions in Key West as a vacation spot, an investment opportunity or for any other purpose. The “Welcome to Key mand and are regarded as worthy, though silent, salesmen of this city’s unique and unusual attractions. Unfortunately the Chamber of Com- merce is in no position financially to meet the heavy demand for this silent salesman. Supplies of the booklets on hand are about exhausted. An additionai supply is urgent- ly needed. It will take a rather large or- der of the booklets just to supply the New York World’s Fair. In the emergency money for the printing of a fresh supply of booklets should be provided from Monroe County’s publicity fund. Money spent for this pur- spent. It cer- tainly will give this island a larger measure cf sound publicity than the insertion of ad- vertisements in publications of | question- able circulation in narrow and restricted fields. The Citizen believes the Board of County Commissioners should take some action to rectify this situation at the earliest possible time. INTER-CITY JOUSTING Glibly, spokesmen for Miami are de- nouncitig Boake Carter’s article in a Mi- ami daily paper in which he enunciates the attitude certain Miamians maintain against Key West and Key Westers in gen- eral. Nevertheless, Mr. Carter’s state- ments concerning this condition are the truth. Ever since this writer came to Key West more than a quarter of a century ago, Miami, then a village, hag belittled this island city, .For verification of this statement, let ay Key Wester disguise himself as a tourist, proceed to Miami and make inquiries about Key West—he will hear plenty. But in stating there exists a feud between Miami and Key West, Mr. Carter, of course, indulges in a bit of imagination—we have not yet started shooting at one another. Paul Marks, a Key Wester by birth, derides Mr. Carter’s article and calls at- Miami papers have given this city, dis- regarding the fact that the Monroe Coun- ty Commissioners have spent hundreds of dollars of the taxpayers’ money for ad- vertisements that evoked this publicity, and as for maintaining bureaus here, that is done because Key West is now or soon may be a potential fertile field for rev- enue. When the Celebration committee ask- ed Miami to contribute financially to help in making the official opening of the Over- seas road a success, both the City of Miami and Dade County remained mute, and as a final hefty kick in the callipygian region of the anatomy the Overseas Road & Toll Bridge District’s outside membership re- pudiated a contribution it had faithfully— not faithlessly—promised to pay. In the face of these representa- tions, Key Westers wouldn’t be human, if they did not evince a defiantly recalci- trant mood, occasionally themselves, | fingers. I learned the wo: THE KEY WEST CITIZEN OLD HOME WEEK MURDER by Phoebe Atwood Taylor The Characters Asey Mayo, Cape Cod sleuth. Kay Thayer, girl reporter. Yesterday: Kay és teling Asey her experience with the criminal, Chapter 37 Death, Not Destruction a ba he shot again, he didn’t hit ha me,” Kay went cn 1 Voat oe ve known anyway. jodged and jerked and switched around as though 1 had St. Vitus dance. He got hold of me just before you came, and I thought he was 8 | to throttle me, but then up you dashed—and you know all I could think of? That ditty about the girl in the saw mill, and the saw com- ing closer and closer and closer—” “A more appropriate ditty,” Sara said, “being ‘Nearer My God to Thee.’ Kay, 1 don’t know whether to scold you for being utterly bereft of your senses, or to con- gratulate you on being alive.” “What I'm most interested in,” Asey said expectantly, “is the man.” Kay sighed. “Kay, you don’t mean you can’t tell me anythin’ about him?” “He's a good shot. He's an artful | dodger He's strong—he has fingers like pilliwinks. “Like what?” Cummings de- manded, i “Pilliwinks,* Kay said. “They were’a torture thing for squeezing nge froma dictionary, and I’ve waited ten years for a chance to use it, and my. is it apt! He nearly broke my whole right hand, with one squeeze. Every finger—” “What was he like?” Asey asked. “If he throttled you, you must have been near enough to see somethin’.” “He had on dark clothes, and a handkerchief over his mouth an’ chin. I can’t tel! you if he was short or tall or anything. He seemed mountainous when | was on the ground, but he didn’t when I got onto my feet. It was so dark di- mensions didn’t matter. I never was really near him. He held me off at an arm’s length during the throttling process. Death was his aim. Not destruction, as Dr. Cum- mings was inclined to think at first. No, Asey, I can’t help you a bit.” “Didn’t he make a sound, or speak, or cuss. or anything?” “Not a peep out of him, not even an ‘Ugh, ” Kay said. “Strong and silent, that was my pal. Anda more grimly determined individ- ual I never met. Well, I did what is probably the silliest thing Fil ever do in my life, and from now on, Asey, I'll leave the case to you. Next time I have any hunch that pal’s coming, you get told. And I ruined your coat, Jane, to abso- lutely no avail. [ll buy you = other.” “It was awful, perfectly awful!” Eloise was sagele-eved. “Oh, 1 think you were brave. I do, really! That awful man—I always say, ‘ou can’t tell about these reds. No eard, of course, but still red. I'm sorry now I said we'd keep this me quiet—not that I don’t think mother would Have preferred dt. and of course one must always re- spect the wishes of the—but just the same, if the people really knew. that man would—why, the papers would have him jailed at once— really, Mr. Mayo, not that I don’t think you know best, of course. And I'm always willing to be con- vinced—but why don’t you arrest that man, instantly? It makes tay blood boil, to think of that mur- Than derer—and I’m sure he was going to kill Kay, too, if not worse—the nick of time, wasn’t it, really? I do think perhaps tomorrow you'd or: best arrest him, before we're all of us murdered in our beds, at the least.” - ‘AP you,” Jane’s voice was curiously hard, “by an: chance talking about Mike Slade? “Why. of course—who else, ’'m sure!” Eloise said; nervously. “We know—I mean, we do know, don't we—though course we keep retending it’ mystery—but ’'m sure ‘say here, in the privacy of our own group—why. in Dental Disaster we know Mike Slade is the one! Jane walked over and stood front of Eloise. : An uncomfortable silence fol- lowed. Twice Sara weach started to say something and twice she changed her mind. Everyone knew there was going to be a scene, but no one knew exactly how to stop it. “So strange of you,” Eloise got up from the sea chest on which she had been sitting, “really, I always said to mother, so strange of her to like that—my dear, really, don't you think you're going a bit too far? You know—I'm sure mother said often enough—I, myself, often wished she had said more—the man’s a scoundrel. So unsporting of you, to take this attitude—so—so grim about it, when it’s proved to you—” wed that A ueenarsee tay a a the blow that struck Eloise ly across the mouth. It cai off balance, and she fell into the corner. “And the next time you mention Mike Slade.” Jane said, “I'll do " | ‘oday’s Horoscope} eo eccccccocs| Today’s nature is steadfast and persevering, with a considerable amount of native ability, but! more success may come by being | employed by others than by fol- it not allow the aspiration to be- come intensified into a desire for vain things, for which there will be exertion .to.no purpose. | ten seconds he was speechless. Dat Gecrger he said. “By Gera. it girl meant it! Now isn’t that extraordinary, when you Stop and think it out? ‘That, from al in the be of health, Emotionally Pa oy gos wi eating lately, d’you happen OO Ascy inted to Eloise. “ct at a other - Se eS e—once she finally dates See ea ae’ daictina be what's the ‘ater with George, her? k—” Eloise’s mouth was working sieneely. She put both hands to er jaw. “Broken, I'll wager,” Sara said. “That smack—Asey, what do you do in a case like this? Isn’t it as- sault and battery, or something? The poor woman—” “Doe,” Asey said, “Jane said somethin’ about smashin’ her Eau bea ft ou ey ‘ause if she you "re wedged, or busted.” i ‘Thee Theece, Thee?” ‘HAT’S it!” Sara said. “It hap- pened to my mother once, Carry her to — oh, her room. I guess. We’ll have to separate Jane and Eloise, under the circum- stances, and I’m sure I don’t know where we can fpae Jane, unless it’s the trundle bed in the attic— Kay, I know this isn’t helping your head any!” “Kay’s all right,” Cummings said. “I shouldn't wonder if Eloise weren't the more badly hurt of the two. Kay’s got just a superficial— Zeb—help us here. Oh, put the bag anywhere. That’s it. Uh!” he runted as he helped Asey and 'b lift Eloise. “Sometimes I think this fad for a slim form is a lot of nonsense, and sometimes in a case Fees I wish there were :nore of it.” They finally managed to pry Eloise’s mout! Sara and Asey guessed somehow wedged in such a manner that it locked her jaw. But once open, Eloise’s mouth proceeded to make up for lost time. She raised such a din that Uncle Jeff and Brinley and Weston, who had been solving town problems down in the living room, came fly- ing up the stairs. ‘You can’ help.” Briefly Asey summed up what had taken place. “You might as well go. Oh, Zeb, see if you can find where Jane went to. In the mood she’s in, she’s capable of anything at all.” ‘Asey,” Zeb cach “with a great respect for your wishes, the an- swer is no. The door mat has re- signed. This particular worm has turned. Let someone else find Jane and cope with her mood. Not me. She’s fooled me once-too often. I thought, after yesterday—but that doesn’t matter. I'll help you with Eloise, but as for Jane, no.” “I can see how you feel.” Asey said. “Wes, you or Brinley, or someone-—find Jane for me. al . “What's the matter with her now?” Brinley nodded his head toward Eloise. “What's pees to her? She sounds as if she war use an old Cape phrase, she’s gum- ae it. You all get along and find jane,’ Obediently the selectmen of Billingsgate marched off to find Jane. é After a while Eloise quieted al sala. “ME she must }, heaven,” Cummings what a nervous system ve. To be able to take this sort of outburst in your stride, the way she does—by rgé. you can call women the weaker sex if you want to, but no marwould be able to work himself into ~ froth- and then snap at you say?” the thace.* ing state like t! out of it—what’s theece. In ponte to Asey. “Thee | recited cheerfully. “By the sea shore. Sea shells she sells, and of that— Eloise, what do you want? Bey it again.’ he said it again, but the results were not any better. mf ay Asey Rpg Pen teeth = te cctingd ive you?” Eloise led vigorously. “Where?” She pointed. “Oh, the case. The teeth are in | your de- | the case. Sara, that’s partment. Get her teeth.’ stared it of four fatsheeg in a field is the process ‘her | equipping Elaise with new teeth | was completed. Continued tomorrow. (Copyright, 19393 Eight-Year-Old Girl Saving For College “ CANOGA PARK, Calif, May the flock of sh lores’ own savii open and remove | her broken plate, which had, as | "azy. “Just sping,” Asey said. “To | | “KEY WEST IN | _ DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years: Ago Teday As Taken From . The Files of The Citizen This being Cuba Day, flags flying in celebration of the little Island Republic’s Fourth of July are bending their colors with the} banners and emblems adorning} the streets of Key West for the; Red Men’s convention, which opens here tomorrow morning. The program prepared for Cuba’s Independence Day in Key West was published in full Saturday \and will be presented at San Car- los theatre this evening. ) Earl arrivals for the Forty- Sixth Great Sun Council of the Improved Order of Red Men and Degree of Pocahontas, which is to open in Key West tomorrow are being entertained with a fish fry at No Name Key today, where conventionists coming in over the Keys may stop and join in the festive occasion; then all form a motorcade and come to the city. It is expected that all members and accompanying friends will reach the city by tonight or early ‘tomorrow morning. Roy Everett Giles, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. David B. Giles, 1122 Fleming street, who was taken with cramps while ‘bathing in the surf Sunday aft- ernoon and died, will be buried this afternoon at 4 o’clock. The funeral will be from the residence with services at the First Baptist ‘church. The tragic manner in which the youth perished is at- tributed to the fact that the boy | went in swimming soon after eat- ing a hearty noon-day meal, causing acute indigestion. Editorial Comment: A gener- ous display of advertising in the ‘home town paper gives the com-, jmunity a good front. to the} | Stranger in our midst, for the outside world sees the communi- jty through the local paper. Yesterday the Chauffeurs de- feated the Barbers by a score of 12 to 8 in one of the most inter-| Steel, born in Clark Co., Ind., 62! jesting games of baseball played jat the American Legion grounds in a long time. During the first jof the game it was nip and tuck, jbut gradually the stickwork of | the Chauffeurs began to tell and | by the time the game ended the motor drivers had forged ahead jto the extent of four runs. The Key West team and the Sluggers were the winning clubs yesterday afternoon at the Amer- \iean Legion grounds. The first | game was an old fashioned con- \test in which the Key West team won in the eighth inning. It was a pitcher’s battle all the way. The second game was a_ walk away for the Sluggers and they ‘practically knocked the opposing | pitchers out of the box. The score in the first game was 4 to 3 in favor of Key West and in the |second game the count was 13 to 2 in favor of the Sluggers. Eighty-nine cars of pineapples | were shipped over the Florida East Coast lines today. The fruit arrived on the ferries from Ha- vana last night and was contain- {ed in 49 cars consigned to dealers jin northern cities. Marriage licenses for three ‘couples were issued from the of- | fice of County Judge Hugh Gunn | during the week just ending. Is- sues were made to William A. McGee and Gladys G. Adams; Jose Mendares and Marie Gomez; | Hilton H. Roberts and Onelia Her- |nandez. | Joseph Ramirez, 13-year-old json of Abel Ramirez, while fish- | ing yesterday from the P. and O. dock at the foot of Duval street, cast his life and the hook caught lin the flesh of his forehead. He | was taken to the Marine hospital and the hook removed. | Pleasing You . . . Delights Us ARM STRONG BRAND COFFEE CUBAN and AMERICAN Quality and Service—Our Slogan —_—_——ee “Meet Your Friends At. . - Key West Bowling Alleys 5 ALLEYS DUCK PINS... TEN PINS Open 11 A, M. to 11 P. M. | Management “Billy” Warren and “Jack” Long | 19.—The future of Dolores Yrigo- | __ jyen, 8 years old, is tiednp with | TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Do not say. “I arrived home without funds”: say. DAILY QUIZ Can you Answer seven of these Test Questions? Turn to Page 4 forthe Answers 1, In war, what is a conscien- tious objector? Is the District of Columbia a state or a territory? What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word dyna- mo? Who was the first Admiral of the U. S. Navy? With which sport is the name of Frank Strafaci as- sociated? Name the U. S. Secretary o: the Interior. Name the second largest of the Great Lakes of North America. Can an American citizen be deprived of citizenship if he fails or refuses to vote for a number of years? What is the quotient of 1-3 divided by 1-4? Name the capital mark? 2. 3. 8. 10. of Den- ee - y 7 4 Today’s Birthdays everecevecvccecccecs:cves Henry B. Steagall of Ozark, Ala., congressman, born in Dale Co., Ala., 66 years ago. Dr. Arthur E. Besior, president | of Chautauqua, New York, born at Dixon, IIL, 60 years ago. Dr. Manley O. Hudson of the Harvard School of Law, judge of | the Permanent Court of Interna- tional Justice, The Hague, born at St. Peters, Mo., 53 years ago. Samuel G. Blythe, noted journ- alist-writer, born at Geneseo, N. Y., 71 years ago. Tom M. Girdler of Cleveland, board chairman of Republic years ago. Prof. William K. Gregory of Columbia University, noted paleontologist, born in New York City, 63 years ago. Prof. Bernadotte E. Schmitt of the University of Chicago, noted professor of history, born at Stroudsburg, Va., 53 years ago. “ imust be w FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1939 ' Peeceeccvvevsovecooseees PEOPLE'S FORUM 1eeerccccccccccosoceccees | WHAT'S THE MATTER? | Editor, The Citizen: {| A casual inquiry around the jcity quickly discloses that since {the first week in April all busi- iness has greatly suffered and there is not now sufficient money in circulation properly to take care of the people. After a year {of “highway” ‘real cestate’ | gi jbuilding here: ‘are ~ practi jdead. There has been: but: t lif any increase in populati e \have gained one new manufac- turing enterprise and lost, aipth- jer. The sponge industee Rak Lor lapsed and there are perhaps 25 jto 35 percent of the population idirectly dependent upon Fedéral {Government pay checks. There iare many, far too many, of adult jemployables, not on P.W.A,, without work. Next month our schools will 'graduate a large number of oung men and women, many of ‘whom have no prospect of work and who surely cannot face the future here with any enthusiasm. !In other words, the city as a whole must tighten its belt and merely exist for the next eight {months until a new tourist sea- ‘son begins—not an alluring pros- pect. Why is this? Why has 1Key West stagnated while other ‘Florida resorts have gone rapid- jly ahead ‘the past year? There reason—what is it? | Very truly, j CURIOUS. iKey West, Fla., {May 18, 1939. i ‘Key West's Outstanding!’ ; LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-conditioned | Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge |. DINING and DANCING Strictly Fireproof Open The Year Around OVERSEAS | (CAFE AND LODGE | Marathon, Fla. 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