The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 14, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen’ Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President and Pubiisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Mansgcr | From The Citizen Building | Corner Greene and Ann Streets | mly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County -atered at Key West, Florida, as second elass matter Member of the Associated Press Le Associated Press is exclusively entitled for republication of all news dispatches credi to s< or pot etherwise credited in this paper and also | *he lotal news published here, SUBSCRIPTION RATES use ne Year ux Mogths three Months . Ine Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made knowp on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards ef thanks, resolutions of spect, obituary notices, etc, will be charged for at se rate of 10 cents.a line, Notices for entertairiment by churches from which 2 revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. he 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 WES ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning), Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—-Lind and Sea. ~ | Consolidation of County and City Governments. \ gis good for good busi- | ness. Courting an old maid may be the} court of last resort. It would be interesting to know pre- cisely what Comrade Stalin and Comrade Hitler really think of each other. The present flood of European propa- ganda should demonstrate whether the pen is really mightier than the sword. “A new patch of green is said to have | appeared on Mars. Surely it isn’t because of envy.”—L. P. Artman in The Key West Citizen. Why not—isn’t Hitler out-Mars- ing Mars —Times-Union. Had Californians waited until Satur- day night for the thirty bucks instead of every Thursday, they might have been successful in getting the pay. Who ever heard of seeing the ghost walk on Thurs- day? Drunkenness is looked upon as a despicable vice in France, a wine drinking country. Let us hope that the United States will eventually become a_ wine- drinking country and we will never have to fear prohibition again. | _ | Lafayette left this country immediate- ly after the Revolution, returning but once | in the next fifty years, but in those fifty years in France he always said “We” in talking of the United States, and later “We” came to help the countrymen of Lafayette. Some senators and. other public offi- cials who saw the moving picture, “Mr. Smith Gces to Washington,” resented the | play because Mr. Smith discovered that | the most respectable men in public office | are common thieves. They may not have resented being called thieves but to be dubbed “common” as such was too much | for their sensitivity. | Says Economist Fuller in his weekly | financial news of the state: “Key West is overjoyed because the current submarine seare has resulted in hastily re-opening the naval base there closed since 1930. Pros- perity of Key West was based on shipping and war during the sail days, died grad- !an American national | such as school, road and | stitutions. | tion fer their suppression has NATIONAL LOTTERIES | It may not be generally known that | lottery was stituted by the Congress of 1776 and that between that date and 1820 at least seventy acts were passed by Congress authorizing lotteries for public purposes, other improve- ments. in- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE ISLAND CITY “Shieldin; 2” SPEECHES at the Park last,tiful programs or broadcasts of night in the political rally staged news. events and continues for, by the Junior Chamber of Com- Some time. the merce were the best of recent | political years. Highlights in- |cluded an assertion by one can- |didate that he was familiar with During the presidency of Washing- |the inside of jails in all parts ton, Harvard College supported itself in as high as $20,000. Most European governments have at one time or another employed national lot- teries as a means of raising funds for the public treasuries, and municipal lotteries have been common. Cuba has conducted a naticnal lottery since the formation of the republic. France financed the war of the Spanish Succession by a lottery which was | | not suppressed until 1836. England au- thorized lotteries for harbor improvements and for the finarcing of the Virginia Com- pany, which founded the early settlements in America, and raised government funds by that means until 1824. Religious and charitable organiza- tions were in some countries permitted to operate lotteries, long after the govern- ment had abolished them as national in- On a small scale such exist in America today in the form of “raffles,” | which do not differ in principle from the more pretentious lotteries of the past. But during the last hundred years the trend of sentiment throughout the world has been against lotteries, particularly in the United States, whe drastic legisla- been en- acted. Still, the gambling instinct is perhaps ag strong as ever and finds opportunities | for expression in many ways, ranging from the outright method of the gaming table to lawful speculation in markets and stocks, regarding the morals of which there is much difference of opinion, even among the better elements of society. TAKE DEATH-LEAP TOGETHER The metropolitan areas of this coun- i try, with their massed thousands of human beings, provide sensational stories for the newspapers but this is not surprising in view of the number of people gathered to- gether. From New York, this month, comes the story of an unemployed salesman, | forty years of age, and his wife, thirty-six years old. Facing financial difficulties, the couple, married fifteen years and de- | scribed by their friends as devoted to each other, spent their last night together in a hotel, standing before two open windows. As dawn broke in the East, they climbed to the window ledges and, jumped to- gether, their bodies hurtling downward in a fatal dive. : Of course, readers of this story in Key West will find many reasons why this couple should not have taken their fatal plunge. It is easy enough for men and women everywhere to explain away the difficulties which beset others. At the same time, it is somewhat of a puzzle to understand the mental machinery of in- | dividuals who viclate nature’s strongest in- stinct by taking their awn lives. Back of suicide, there must be a sequence if bitter- ness to transform sensitive and susceptible souls. AIRPLANE INDUSTRY BOOMS The airplane industry in the United States seems to be in line for the greatest | part by a grand lottery, with capital prizes | other expansion possible, with combatant and. neutral nations falling over each other in an effort to contract for American-built war-planes. ‘ While the war business will not last | always it may be the means of expanding the United States. Among good lines in Other | speeches was that in which the brokerage business and the bo lita business were said to run on |the same principles, that in |which Key West women were | praised ws more beautiful than ‘those in either New York or Paris, promise to arrest all in town “even the big shots” when |there was transgression of the law. | of IT’S QUITE A KICK to be in the Navy Air Squadron, flyers |say. For one thing, when. the | plane. goes. up above 18,000 feet everyone is so affected by the high pressure that they’re on a mild drunk and as high as a |kite. Flyers in Key West do not jhave much trouble with squalls. They usually fly around or over the huge gray banks to avoid |unnecessary wear and tear on the plane. On the entire hop from the California coast to Coco Solo in a storm, ice formed on |the antenna as big around as a ;man’s arm. With patrol activi- ties intensified in the Guan- | tanamo, Key West and Coco Solo Caribbean areas patrols are hard pushed to cover the areas ade- quately. There is talk of a | squadron being pulled out of the Pacific coast and sent to the At- jlantic Caribbean. On the Pa- | cific, though, they’re also hav- ing a hard time with the patrols |far out over the ocean. SOMETIME AGO it was prom- ised that there would be an at- tempt to control “interference” caused by part of the set at Key West Naval Station. To date this has not been done. It is not the Lighthouse-Coast Guard Service radio causing the interference because all transmission in it is by voice to the various light- houses, Certain antiquated equip- ment at the Naval Station is causing the interference, which often breaks into the most beau- equipment in question would ,eliminate this. Station officials; say that broadcasts of the wea-| ‘ther to ships is possibly causing | ithe dot and dash disturbance. | They have not found the disturb- | jance thus far in a _ preliminary , survey. If they do, find the (equipment in question they will | shield it in copper. AROUND TOWN: Adolphe Menjou was on duty in Italy with | the U. S. Army ambulance corps, | : also serving in Italy at that time, | was a young writer named Ernest } ‘Hemingway. Fifteen years later; Menjou played the part of Major | ‘Rinaldi in Hemingway's “A Fare- | jwell To Arms”, . .Arrests locally: jusually clear up “nuisance” situa- | tions. There were two arrests re- (cently in connection with hunting idoves without licenses. One got | ‘a stiff penalty. . Biological Sur- | vey has a civie and personal in- | terest in seeing the Inland Wa._| |terway between Big Pine and| |Key West completed. Their pa- | j trol boat grounds there most oft- | | TODAY'S '| COMMON ERROR Do not say. “The captain np less than the mate were |] frightened”: say. “was | frighiened”. TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ Can you answer seven of these Name the first Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. Where is the city of Cannes? Which State is represented in the U. S. Senate by Lewis B. Schwellenbach? In which country is Bern- hard Rust the Minister of Education? In which river are the La- chine Rapids? What does status quo mean? Are the three Guianas in South America republics? | What is the name for the employment of song for magical purposes? What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word obliga- 9. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1939 High School Notes 3 { MONROE COUNTY SCHOOL | sociation: Child’s Book of Fa- ‘BOARD has arranged the holiday ' mous Composers, Nurses at Work schedule for the remainder _of —Keliher, Odyssey for Boys and the school year. Thanksgiving ¥ will be November 30 and a holi- {day also December 1. Christmas jholidays will begin December 22 Girls—Church, Thimble Summer —Enright, Mei Li—Hansforth, Twelve Ways to Build a Vocabu- jand end January 8. February 22,/lary, Post Haste--A Manual for | Washington's birthday, will be a! Modern Letter Writers, How to jholiday this year. Spring vaca-iwin Friends and Influence. Peo- tion will begin March 21 and ple—Dale Carnegie, The Wizard pond March 26. jof Oz—Frank Baim, Wildfire— ! AAEM |Zane Grey, Beauty of the Purple | IN A SCHOOL CALENDAR. '_w. S. Davis, Charm—M. Wil- |the Tri-Hi-Y meets and there is'son, What is She Like?—Brock- |basketball on November 13; on'man, Picture Tales from Scandi- November 15, Hi-Y meets and!navia—Ruth Bryan Owen, And there is basketball; November 16,'There was America—Duvoisin, |Sunior High Chapel, fourth pe-'Latin Words of Common English. riod; November 17, Dramatic ae eT ay |Club meets and there is basket-/ ‘ball play; November 18, Coach! Offutt weds Miss Katherine Deai/| Jat Coronado Beach, Fla.; Ndvem- | ber 20, Tri-Hi-Y meets; Novem-|The night is cold and darkness ber 22, Hi-Y meets. } comes —_—_—_— ; To cover my window pane; MONDAY NIGHT class league I look into the shadowed night jbasketball games are between | For love to come again. 12A and 11B and between 111A) : ‘and 9A. Not very many high | Somewhere out in the dark of school artist exhibitions were! night, 3 a : ,seen at Art Center school exhibi- | (Though my life be filled with ‘ANDLE LIGHT wLecescecccsce ee tory? Which city in Alabama has the largest population? en. . .Among well-known winter residents of Key West, are phil- | 10. ,osopher John Dewey, and New | York Parks Superintendent Rob- | ert Moses. Dewey is, known for | his research into personal experi- | sence, and Moses for his wonder- | ful work in securing parks for | ‘New York. . .Local Recreation | | Department recently went over! ‘its duties for the winter with| ‘Field Supervisor Miss Essie | | Geiger. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY ‘B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen Police of Birmingham reported the fatal stabbing of Wesley Turner, 18, by Marion Carpenter, MANY of the Army and Navy | 16, both boys being Negroes. The : ‘cause of the tragedy, as personnel who are stationed here ; Li ae \have become interested in a plan jelly, — “« ea taps omieiah |to bring the army \and navy | FOROEE, — Argument — * | against each other in sports com- jecene See sapewich petition. Baseball is thought to pian |be the logical field in which to| ,When an indignant taxpayer | bring about the competition. is? Trenton, = J complain: ake lregular winter contests between finding tadpoles in his bath wa- ithese two units could be seen | te & City official suggested that this winter it could-be well ad-.the objects complained of might vertised and bring many visitors |have been pieces of rubber jhere. By the way, everyone is washers. The taxpayer roared:, |saying how much better Key! |“Pieces of rubber don’t swim, | West baseball has been in the |and Oe a |past year. The boys are coming | exe Hes along. We wish the local league [wenigation was promised. would look into this army-navy |question speedily. They will be ag Sie E. etalk linterested, we are sure. |posed chairman of the TVA, is now studying locations in Mex- As Taken From The NOVEMBER 11, 1934 Miss Mena Oliveros, State Re- gent of the Catholic Daughters of organization in Key West last night and installation of officers was held by the organization un- der the direction of the regent. Members of the Muki-Muki-Oh Society held a delightful meet- ing at the home of Miss Isabel Armayor last night. Dancing was enjoyed and many games played. An advertising contest was the main event of the evening and prizes were won by Miss Edna Pinder and Tony Herce. Judge Hugh Gunn is this week receiving congratulations from his many friends on having gone well past the three score and ten mark. He was born 35 years ago on November 12.. For the past 25 years he has been Pro- bate Judge of Monroe county. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brewer, of Ishpeming, Mich., will arrive in Key West tomorrow and will spend the winter in ‘the city. The Brewers will reside in one of the cottages of the Porter-Allen KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today America, paid her official visit to | the Court Mary: Star of the Sea! ica which may be used for settle- | ment by Jewish and other ref-,| ‘ugees. His work is sponsored by | a Quaker.organization with the! ‘approval of the Mexican govern- ment. Suita John Ridgely of Portland, |Ore., protested when his son! ycussed and he expects an excep-| tried to get a court order making | tionally large attendance. jhim guardian of the father’s es- NOVEMBER 14, 1924 jtate. Ridgely declared that his United States Customs Officers |son was “crippled, weakened by there last night rang a complete |@8e, and physically and mentally ;surprise on several smugglers by | incompetent. The son is 78 iseizing about 30 sacks of liquor Years old and the father is 108. {at East Martello Towers. When} Sree ‘the officers made their appear- _A crowd gathered on an In- lance the smugglers made their dianapolis street when Charles | getaway. ‘ Edwards, driving a 19-year-old Motorboat Lillia, which was'/2utomobile, collided with anoth-| jseized by customs officials in the €t car. Saying he had never had |eove at Stock Island four months 2? accident before, Edwards ago, was sold yesterday at pub- | Called for bids on his ancient ‘ie auction in front of the cus-|flivver, and sold it to the second [toms house. The boat was in | bidder for $3. | excellent condition ‘and was) Prige Se gH | | Norman W. Kruse, 18, of Lo-} pu pee by a ee ee retto, Neb. a freshman at the | | Convention of Baptists of | State university, was given | |South Florida, which had been *H star farmer steely its A conducted in Key West during | Kansas City livestock show las! ‘ ed the past few, days, was brought |/Menth. Young Kruse nett to gapaiie’ last night by Rev. J. L. beanie seen He pacing gee | White, pastor of the First Baptist ore nee nts cash prize of \church, and Rev. C.°M. Britton, |2¥atd included a. cash prize of; lassistant secretary of Florida | $500. | Baptist Missions. | One of the chief reasons why |Key West’s tourist season this jyear will be the best! in many i eishadet New postage stamps shortly to be distributed bear portraits of a number of famous personages, | including Booker T. Washing- lacon- , tions. . | Cabana as captain of basketball 'team. . .Varsity basketball play- ers are so enthused they practice }their plays in class halls some- times, . .Note to Mr. Klebsattel: | jtone down drummer a bit. . . Girls would like to know how | boys would act if a couple of boatloads of girls were stationed | here, in answer to a_ sociology | \erack about actions of girls! jaround sailors, H erent, | | NEXT WEEK the High School Library will present a festive ap- | |pearance with book week posters | and book displays. Among books | in the theme of “Books Around | |the World” at the Library are:! Russia, Haskell’s Peter, Katrinka’s | brother; Turkey, Davis’ Beauty of | the Purple; Hungary, Jacobi’s | Adventures of Andris; Poland, | Kelly’s Blacksmith of Vilno;; France, Malot’s Adventure of; Remi; Portugal, Hewes’s Picture | Tales from Spain; Scandinavia, | Owen’s Picture Tales from Scan- dinavia; Italy, Sabatini’s Sword of Islam; Holland, Kelly’s At the Sign of the Golden Compass; Eng- | land, Pyle’s Men of Iron, Scott’s | Quentin Durwood; India, Bab-° bitt’s Jataka Tales; South Seas, Nordhoff's Derelict; China, Hand- ' forth’s Mei Li, Lewis’ China| Quest; Scuth America, Finger’s: Give a Man a Horse; Mexico, Parkes’ History of Mexico, Lee’s | Marcos, A Mexican Boy; Canada, | O’Brien’s Silver Chief to the Res-! cue; United States, Meigs’ As the i Crow Flies, Meader’s Longshanks, Snedekei’s Unchartered Ways, /Darby’s Peace Piper at Portage | (old St. Louis), Aldrich’s Florida | Sea Shells, Robinson’s Bright Is- land (Maine), Cartwright’s Pa-| rade of the States. : , NEW BOOKS given by. the} High School Parent-Teacher As- | WHERE AND WHEN CAN YOU BUY AT THE BEST? “EL PRADO CAFE’ Specializing in Hot Bollos Chicharones Cuban Sandwiches Cor White and Division Sts. First Stop Light 1 Lopez Funeral Service Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers 7A has elected Orlando} sadness) I watch and pray by candle-light For love to bring me gladness. ALBERT C. KEITH. 918 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga. Subscribe to The Citizen—20e weekly. For Fifty Years a NAME! in Coffee in Key West STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE THAT'S A REPUTATION. e . — THY IT TODAY — The Favorite In Key West STAR + BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS soemenscecsrensousonense OTC. SECOND SHEETS 500 Sheets for 50c MANILA, 8%xIi TYPEWRITING PAPER 500 Sheets for The Citizen Bldg. PHONE 51 section on the county road. years is because the Ptorida East NOVEMBER 11, 1928 ‘Coast Railway and the. P. and At the regular meeting of the|O. S. S. Co., will allaw stopover American Legion last night it|privileges to all excursionists was announced that the confer- | going to and from Havana. ence of the Fifth American Le-| gion District will be held this! year in Key West on December! 6. It was stated by a member| this morning that it will be at} Coral Isle Casino. WHO KNOWS? See “The Answers” on Page 4 | page. No pictures of ladies were | ton, noted Negro educator rh founder of Tuskegee Institute. He was born in slavery, being) the son of a Negro slave woman | and a white man. He died in! 1915. { The Record of Greensboro, N.| C., ina reeent issue made a startling innovation in its society; Henry Dedaux, acting survey- | or of customs at New Orleans, : | printed, but instead its columns |were adorned. with likenesses of How many trade agree- arrived over the highway this ments have been negotiated? morning for the purpose of con-/ 2. What is the relative popu- ferring with L. T. Bragassa on lation of Russia and Finland? the methcds used in dealing with! 3. What do the initials “U. S. several bridegrooms and bride- | grooms-to-be: | British newspapers a few days ually but inevitably during the days of steam, seems probable of revival under a new war style-sails in the sky.” | the aircraft industry to the place where | the production of planes will be cheaper | than ever and thus speed the development Secretary Harold Ickes has issued a | book with a demogogic title, “America’s | House of Lords—an Inquiry into the Free- | dom of the Press.” The writer’s reaction | is a wonderment how much of the tax- payers’ time he took in writing it; and was it written while he was recuperating in a | hospital at government expense. The | diarrhea of words in an exudation of ill- | will towards the editors and publishers of the United States, but it will not “bust” | the country wide open. The mountain of the flivver plane which will make the | airplane the rival of the automobile. This may seem like a rash prediction but mass production of automobiles has cut the cost to such a price that the United States has enough automobiles to carry the entire population at-the same time. If mass production of airplanes resplt in the same reduction in prices there will be a larger market than ever for peace-time airplanes. Sometimes a poor golfer can out-lie a labored and brought forth a mouse—a lit- good player after the shots have been tle one, ‘made, \the ferry business between this |S. R.” stand for? } j|pert and Havana. He says he sere How old is Benito Musso-} enjoyed the ride over high- ; lini? a: oS | 5. What are the value of U, S. Hugh G. Williams, of Miami, | exports to Japan? has been appointed the census; 6. Can an American ship carry superintendent for the counties |goods to Australia? of Monroe, Broward, Dade, Mar-| 7: Who was John Huss? tin and Palm Beach. Mr. Wil-| 8 Is Cuba. independent? |liams said there will be ap-! 9 Has the submarine cam~-) proximately 350 men employed | Paign reduced British shipping to jin the area of the counties, and|a serious degree? }the work of the enumerators | 10. hig | ergy ape will begin about April 2, 1930. | cargoes from the U. S. is, Sea Scouts of Key West will| carried ships? ago hada joke on the censors, who suppressed an article on military tactics on the ground, that it © divulged “military secrets.” Later it was pointed meet this evening in San Carlos; Hall, under the direction of Mas-} Patrolmam Wayne Miller of ter George F. Archer. Skipper! Columbus, O:, recently captured DELIVERED DAILY EVERYWHERE Thompson Enterprises INCORPORATED ICE DIVISION PHONE NO. 8 John F. Roker said there are te be many important things to be dis- [2 prisoner who escaped from him 19 months ago. i