The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 24, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO She Key West Citizen | Pulsished Daily cept Sunday By THE crirzeNn PyBListina co. Inc. L. P. AURTMAN, President an@ Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Basiness Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Anh Streets ently Daily Newspaper tn Key West sud Monroe | tracted little general attention. Many Key Tatered at Key West, Florida, se oocond oluse matter | Westers didn’t know anything about the | affair, so naturally they thought nothing THE LIONS TAKE ACTION | Last Sunday there was a quiet rieet- | ing of representatives of 14 Lions Clubs in | Southeast Florida at Pigeon Key. The | meeting was not widely publicized and at- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TURPENTINE PERKIN’ U ee ee ee IDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL _ Under a contract made nearly {200 years ago, one red rose was |Tecently paid to a descendant of William Penn as rental for a piece of property now occupied cum P| A TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1939 | THE ISLAND CITY {swamped with letters from Flor- ie representatives and senators stating that each of them are j working for the sponge project, for the naval station, for the air |base, for this and that. We are Member of the Associated Press slic Associated Press is exclusivély entitled for republication of all news dispatches eredited to | 4 or pot etherwWise cfedited in thif paper and also | ‘he Idtal news published here. ! SUBSCRIPTION RATES | (nme Year six Months | Three Month | one Month +85 | Weekly | ADVERTISING RATES { Made known on application. | SPECIAL NOTICE cards of thanks, resolutions of . ices, eto., will be charged for at | ; 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 diséus- sien of public issues and subjects of local or general | smterest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cusions. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | ne WILL always seek the truth and print it * without fear and without favor; ufraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; \ways fight for progress; never be the or- %-M or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; aiways do its utmost for the ; public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue. . commend good done by individual or organ- “ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and “opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. never be IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WESi ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zéning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—-Lind and Sea. Consolidaticn of County and City Governments. It’s about time we develop somé héavyweight statesmen. Intolerance involves a refusal to ad- mit that you might be wrong. Everybody is for fair play unless it involves the surrender of a privilege. Hitler is all'for peace with Great Britain and France ‘but upon his own térms. Many a conservative is radical enough when he thinks it will pay him to be radical. Don’t let criticism get into your hairy the world has to have wise men as well as fools. — Except under a dictatorship there is né such thing as being dragged into war; if: we go to war it is because that is our will. We know individuals who would get along much better in life if they had less | téngue. There is responsibility in every | utterance and most utterances have def- imite consequences, favorable or unfavor- | able. | » Senator Barbour, of New Jersey, who | asserted he is committed to nothing except to-keep America out of the war, is quoted as saying: “If neutrality-law revision is im the best interests of the United States, I am for it; if it is not, will oppose it.” | Biit how does the good senator Know what | ig. in the best interests of the United States? He will guess, like the rest of the senators. All we hope, they will guess | right. This writer remembers well a de-| lightful stay “On the vine-clad hills of Bingen—fair Bingen on the Rhine.” A | féw days ago the dispatches announced that General Walther von Branfchitsch, German commander, had éstablished his Headquarters at Bingen. It is a distinct | sHock to learn that such an i@ylic peace- | ful spot is to be the headquarters of the German afimy. Caroline Elizabeth Sara Norton could hever have writtén her sen- timental piece of verse under the condi- | tions that prevail today at “Birigeh—tfair Biigen on the Rhine.” | about it. b That was last Sunday. Today everyone in Key West should know about that meeting. Something con- | structive for Key West was accomplished there. What was done may mean many | thousands of fresh dollars to the finan- cially famished people of this community. ! It will help swell the income of the Over- seas Highway Commission. The Lions voted to co-operate inh bringing down Overseas Highway and through Key West as many delegates and others attending next year’s Lions Inter- national convention at Havana as_ they possibly can. They have appointed a committee representing the 14 clubs. to work out a publicity program and co- operate in this effort. Between 15,000 and 20,000 persons probably will attend the Lions Inter- national convention at Havana. Outbreak of European hostilities may so disrupt reg- ular transportation channels that it might | be impossible to move that many Amer- | icans to and from Cuba—unless some solu- tion is found. The Lions believe they have found the solution. They hope to induce one of the steam- ship companies, possibly the P. & O., to | put a steamship in operation between Ha- vana and Key West. By bringing dele- gates to the convention down the highway and through Key West to this ferry to Cuba, the Lions expect to solve the trans- portation problem. One steamship easily can make a round trip each twelve hours between Key West and Havana. It is easy to see the benefits that will accrue to Key West by this arrangement. Many thousands of persons. will pass through the city as they go to and return from the Havana convention. They will travel over the highway. They will be in a holiday mood and will have a lot of fun. They will need food, lodging and other supplies and services. Key West should be thankful the ‘Lions held a little meeting at Pigeon Key last Sunday. The Citizen believes the members of that organization deserve the thanks of the community for thinking enough of the community to do something really constructive and fine for the com- munity. It certainly is another outstanding example of the kind of community service that the organizations of Key West are giving to lift the community up out of the depths. WHO COMMITS OUR CRIMES? The prevalent idea that young men and women commit more crimes than other age groups is given a wallop by Magistrate Matthew J. Troy, of Brooklyn, who says that a survey of court cases in 1938 revealed the fact that the largest group of criminals in that city was 30 to 39 years old. : This is interesting information, even if it applies to Brooklyn. There may be some truth in the observation in other areas. For example, a recent survey by the Public Affairs Committee shows that of all persons arrested and finger-printed in an undefined area in 1938 the age group | 20 to 29 had the largest number of crim- inals, followed by the group from 30 to 39 and, third in order, was those under 20 years of age. FATE What men call fate for lack of a bet- ‘ter word is strikingly illustrated by the accidental killing of a six-year-old school- boy in Great Britain. When the outbreak of war seemed to threaten the life of thousands of school children in London the government, after elaborate precautions, moved most of the young boys and girls out of the danger zone, billeting them with families in the safer areas. Well, just afterwards, a Royal Air Force plane, making a routine flight, ac- cidentally dropped a dummy bomb which crashed through the roof of a country home, killing one of the six-year-old chil- dren, recently moved from the “danger” zone in London, where no bombs have fallen so far. A younger brother, sleeping _____ | im the same bed, was not hurt, ine Section Above: Eliza Péeples, a¢ “Miss Spirit of Turpen< tine” symbolizes the re« birth of the age-old Gum Turpentine industry which has followed the formation of the American Turpén- tine Farmers Association Cooperative. The progress of this Southern industry valued at nearly $25,000,< 000 annually is vital te the South. ‘by the Red Rose Inn, near West |glad to see that EVERYBODY is iGrove, Pa. The symbolic rental, |behind us. That’s the backing we |paid annually, was’ received this need. The fact is the opening of year by Philip Penn-Gaskell|the Naval Station was caused ninth-generation de-,only by very unusual patrolling of Pennsylvania’s activities in the Caribbean caus- jing Key West’ base to again be of major importance. It will be jremembered, tod, that the Key West Democratic executive com- mittee once worked for F. D. ;Roosevelt on thé platform of \Hall, a ;scendant | founder. | Paul P. Harris of Chicago, who organized the first Rotary Club lin 1905 and is now president- sehities Ke ae Semnational | «Roosevelt and the Naval Sta- | rf |tion”. Maybe the President will promote closer cultural relations | ai 4 with other American republics, |©@!™ HE opened the Station. |as well ‘as political harmony and COFFEE SHOP TALE: Licut.- | economic cooperation. Lee Pierce have. creased fore- |. Mrs. Sarah Delano Roosevelt|heads and tired looks lately. is one of the only six women in | They're both working at top 4 | our history to see her son elected | speed to open the Station by No- |President of the United States.|vember 1. . Walter Robinson, |The other five were the mothers |colored, arrested Sunday, was |of Washington, Polk, Grant, Gar-| not only wrecking the contents of 'Comdr. F. H. Callahan and Aide | Ag! Judge Hatley Langdale, Président of thé American Turpentine Farm- ers Association Cooperative, and world’s largest Turpentine pro- ducer, exhibits the modern ail container adopted by.the associa- tion, Under his leadership’ Gum Turpentine is being advertised na- tionally and new demand is being created for this fine old Southern product. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY: Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago’ Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen OCTOBER 24, 1934 |ard Brands, Inc., has been trans- Attention of the voters in Key:farred to a similar Fegiuele t . ‘ Ee position in Mi- West is called to the three ques-| ami, and is being relieved by his ions and seven amendments car-" proth, Murdock Kno ried on the ballot for the election psc taken up the dutien on November 6, which ate of in OCTOBER 24, 1924 tense interest to voters. The} : first three are of paramount i Three-way committee, compos- terest and should be read and’ 4 of Lincoln E. Spencer, -of the | {Rotary Club, chairman; Bascom Shortly before 1 o'clock this: Grooms, Chamber of Com- afternoon fire apparatus respond-|™eree, and Eddie Strunk, Jr, of ed to a call from Box 321, when'|the Exchange Club, is sending a blaze was discovered in the old |letters to residents in an effort analyzed by the voters. \field and McKinley. The mother lof Cleveland died a few months! {before his election in 1884. | The Tribune-Herald of Hilo, ‘Hawaii, tells of an 85-year-old jlady, Mrs. Wilhemine Alf, who asserts that she has not missed a ‘motion picture in the town for eight years. The editor adds the \comment that “some people seem | jto delight in punishing them- | | selves.” | | William Williams, a Los An-! geles night watchman, was much | surprised to learn that a friend, Frank Reuter, had willed him} |$10,000.. Said Williams: “I used |to lend him a few dollars years |ago when he was hard up, but I ‘never expected a return like this.” A replica of the seal of the Confederate States is in posses- jsion of W. L. McCarty of Mc- Allen, Tex. It is of bronze, about six inches in diameter, bearing \the figure of Washington on {horseback and a wreath repre- |senting Southern farm products. The original great seal of the Confederacy was |Richmond was 1865. evacuated Medicine Lodge, Kan.,.is pre- (serving as a memorial the home {of the late Carrie Nation, gained fame in the early nineties as a smasher of saloons. Among the mementoes displayed is the |a home, but it was his own home, police state. He was out of tem- per. . .Try the succulent shellfish sometime. If you don’t think it tastes like chicken and famed |pompano combined—why we do! . . Next month mackerel fisher- men are preparing for mackerel of The Citisen | REY WEST PUBLICITY is) photographs told such a complete !story of the life of a fisherman’s family that they are being circuit- ed throughout the state by Florida Art Project. Both living and working conditions of a repre- sentative Conch family are pic- | tured. KEY WEST LIONS CLUB is glad to hear that Lions Clubs of all South Florida are cooperating to rout the Lions International {Conference through Key West on its way to Havana next July. This }means that about 20,000 Lions ;may come roaring through Key West. It is a big summer feature for the city, as many of them jmay stay a few days on the way jover and on the way back. Sug- gestion from Miami is that the S.S. Florida be used in a shuttle service between Key West and Havana for the group. Lionism wants the Overseas Highway and Key West to get publicity along | with the rest of the East Coast of Florida. By the way you should see the sporty tag Gonzalo Bez- anilla is getting up. It has a Lions insignia at one end and stream- lines emerging from this with the |words “Come to Lions Interna- tional Havana Convention Via Key West”. POLITICIANS are still bring- jing voters in cars to City Hall to season. They work night and|register for the coming election iday once they get going, getting | with a large majority of the negro ifour hours’ sleep a night for the race evident. There are already season, except when a_norther 4,568 voters registered this year stops their work. . .City sponsor- as compared to 2,771 in 1937. ship of W.P.A. projects has! jumped from 20 percent of total TAKE FOR to 25 percent requisite. . Dove Get Relief From Chills and WHEN IS A DESTROYER 2) “receiving ship’? Tell us, thi: and you will know a. tactical secret of present naval patrol op-} {erations in the Caribbean. Our ‘guess is that the destroyer’named as “receiving ship” is that which is stationed at a certain point, lready to receive hurry-up or- ders to go to a certain spot for | patrol duty. This may be done | {to adequately cover an area. | NOVEMBER 14-26 it is tenta- lof Conch Town”. These photo- graphs were originally made to ‘illustrate a book being written on the town by Veronica Huss‘of season has opened and you may); Fever! see many doves about. This is | Key West’s major hunting sport. | Don’t put up with terrible Malaria. | Don’t endure the wracking chills and fever. |, At first sign of the dread disease, take Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. A real Malaria medicine. Made especially for the purpose. Contains | tasteless quinidine and iron. Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic ac- ; tually combats Malaria infection in | the blood. Relieves the awful chills a fever. Helps you feel better | fas lost when ‘tively planned at Key West Art: Thousands take Grove’s Tasteless in Center to exhibit “Photographs ee Tonic for Malaria and swear | by it. Pleasant to take, too. Even | children take it without a whimper. Don’t suffer and suffer. At Ma- 'Taria’s first sign, take Grove’s ; Tasteless Chill Tonic. At all drug- | stores. Buy thelarge size as it gives who | the Federal Writers Project. The you much more for your money. Santaella cigar factory on the |t0 list every available room for!patchet with which she wrecked county road. It, was followed by,|the coming winter season. a call from Box 12, a small fire’ ; ‘the Cary saloon in Wichita at the | Many friends of Miss Blanche oytset a her smashing career. being found in the Wm. Curry’s|Curry, of Key West, will be glad Sons yard. In neither fire was, there much loss. Lieut.-Col. M. R. Woodward, FNG., commander of the 265th;Women. She was chosen to fill) regiment, is due to arrive in Key West this evening and will be ac- companied by Major B. T. Gib- son, U.S.A., instructor for the regiment. Inspection of Battery “E” will be held tonight. At a meeting of the board of county commissioners to be held tonight the names of voters which have been erroneously stricken from the qualified list, will be re- stored. The disqualified list was published in The Citizen on Oc-| tober 19. In the presence of j members Marjorie Fay” Ayala, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Ayala, be- came the bride of Chas, S. Tay- lor this morning. The.ceremony was performed in the First Methodist church, Rev. George E. Summers officiating. OCTOBER 24, 1929 Consulting engineer Charles Hydock of Philadelphia stated before his departure last evening that he was most favorably im- pressed with Key West as a field for Dr. J. S. Merrill’s proposed salt water distilldtion plant. He had made a thorough survey of mediate of thé~'family, Miss se to learn that she has been elected fsecretary of the Student Govern- jment of Florida State College for the place of Miss. Elizabeth Clark Randolph, who held the position formerly. Roy Olivieri, 49, died this morn- ing 8:45 o’clock at the residence of the family, 1328 White street. Funeral will be held Sunday aft- ernoon at 3:30 o’clock from the residence to Ley Memorial church. Services will be con- ducted by Rev. E. L. Ley, as- {sisted by Revs. S. A. Wilson and Wm. E. Bryant. Statement and audit of collec- ;tions and expenses of the San rlos Celebration will be, pub- lished fin The Citizen next ‘Mon- day. The announcement _.was \placed in the hands of Thé° Citi- zen today but publication’ has ‘been poSptoned until next’ ‘Mon- | day. 2 | There will be an entertainment given this evening at the sSoot- tish Rite Hall, corner of Baton ‘and Simonton sreets, by Robert J. Perry Chapter of DeMolays, in honor of the newly-elected offi- cers, and a very delightful eve- ning is promised all who attend. | se6e edeece ‘ee |DELICIOUS CAKES AT _ | MALONEY’S BAKERY | Here we are—two more de-, jlicious cakes from the pastry de-| partment at Maloney Bros. Bak- | ery, 812 Fleming street. | The items for the next two days on special selling will be Banana | jand Nut Layer Cake at 33c and Lemon Cheese Squares at 25c. Your Hallowe'en parties will be jgreatly enhanced with either or | | both of these cakes. Phone 818! |for delivery whenever wanted. | Today's Horoscope) | Today’s new sign comes in! |strong, giving a robust and even) |viglent nature that may take} but little heed of the opinions or peace of mind of others. Care {should be taken to control this |propensity, for there is danger | indicated from giving way too! ‘freely to it, which, unrestrained, | |might lead to physical violence. if | Subscribe to The Citizen—20c weekly. the situation and was satisfied WHERE AND WHEN CAN ’ * it would be suecessful. | Today Ss Birthdays The new motorboat owned by | 66 eeessGeeessesoesessece Captain Eugene Knight, pilot on! George E. Bigge of ‘Bicer | the Key West bar, which was Uniy., Providence, R. I., member built at the old aeromarine air- of the Social Security Board, ways grounds, is to be launched | porn at Kalkaska, Mich., 52 years Saturday morning of this week. |ago. The beautiful craft was designed) Charles H. Compton, Hprarian | by Robert Watkins. Editorial Comment: Dr.\ Merrill says he is going to furnish Key West with fresh Water in spite of h--1 and high water. That’s the proper spirit, doe, and -is the greatest conttibuting element to, success in any venture. A large concourse of sorrowing }of the St. Louis Public Library, j born at Palmyra, Nebr.,,59 years ago. i. 1 Harry S. Wherrett of Pitts- | burgh, plate glass ‘turer, born at Connersville, Ind. 63 | ly ago. ix |. Rabbi Isaac Landman of New | York, editor and scholar, born in relatives and friends gathered) Russia, 59 years ago. yesterday at noon to pay a last) Maj. Gen. Daniel Van Voorhis, tribute of respect and esteem to/17 S.A, born at Zanesville, Ohio, Lurton Pangle, Key West young §1 years ago. man who met death in Canada, ian C. Cooper of Jacksbn- from: drowning. A large number| Fla., author ahd movie pro- from the Wrecking Tug Warbler | qucer, botn there 46 years ago, ‘ attended. Charles J. Brand of Washing- Chilton Knowles, son of Mr. | ton, D. C., noted agricultiital eco- | ros STRONG ARM | BRAND COFFEE, | . and Mrs. Gilbert Knowles, who} has been local manager for Stand- born in Lac Qui Parle Co. Minn., 60 years ago. 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