The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 4, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO Saga ee Yet | Che wey West Citizei The reene Citizen Building ud Ann Streets cond class matter er of the Associated Press 1 Press is exclusively entitled to use of all news dispatches credited to ise credited in this paper and also published he ~~ SUBSCRIPTIO: IAL NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutions of , ete, will be charged for at line by churches from which 5 cents a line. n open forum and invites discus- es and subjects of local or general | 1 not publish anonymous commauni- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be fraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- san or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; aways do its utmost for the ublic welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue. couimend good done by individual or organ- ; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions, print only news that will elevate nd not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN BETTER EXPRESS SERVICE | the decision of the P. & O. Steamship Com- pany to reduce its service between Key | West and Havana has been to stir our civic | officials into action along several lines. oA Now that the service to Havana has | been curtailed all our business interests | are beginning to realize the value it was THE KEY WEST CITIZEN One of the more fortunate results of | | to this community. They have been pointed | | in their demands for restoration of the full | schedule of the S, S. Cuba on the Havana run, and now seem more willing to co- operate with interests seeking to establish a daily ferry service between Key West and the Cuban capital. In making a protest to the Florida | Railroad Commission against the curtail- ment of the Havana service, the Chamber of Commerce has been informed by Chair- man Eugene S. Matthews of Tallahassee that negotiations are pending to give Key | West an improved express service to the mainland. Express shipments were seri- | cusly affected by shifting part of the S. S. a’s operations tc the Havana-Miami According to Chairman Matthews, | the Railway Express Agency is negotiating with the | pany of Key West for a daily express serv- ice between Key West and Miami. Daily express service into Key West ended when the Florida East | cane of 1935 If this service is finally inaugurated it | will be a great help not only to the busi- | interests of the city, but to winter | jn | residents, the army, the navy and the coast | guard. Naval shipments and the demand | for express service have increased greatly during the last several weeks. Coast Railroad aban- | doned service to this city after the hurri- | It will | Overseas Transportation Com- ! Curtiey a Pile Racer wderty Doyle RENDEZVOUS WITH YOUTH THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1940 ‘GLENN MILLER NOW _ THREE TIMES WEEKLY © | FOR CHESTERFIELD. \Miller And Andrews Sisters At Head Of Class For 1940 Popularity Answering an avalanche of re- | TODAY’S Do not say, “I am going down and clean out the cellar“; say, “to clean out the cellar’. quests from dance fans, Chester- TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ field Cigarettes will sponsor | Glenn Miller’s orchestra and the | Andrews Sisters three times | weekly, instead of once a week | as originally announced. The new program, introduced in a_ half- | hour broadcast December 27th, is heard each Tuesday, Wednes- day and Thursday evening at 10 p. m., E.S.T. Glenn Miller's is favorite dance band today, lead ing all others in record sales and | making box office history in personal appearances. The An- 'drews Sisters are the most popu- lar singing trio that ever came | |down the pike, both on records | and on the variety stage. Chester- field has definitely scored a coup in bringing these stars together for the radio audience, in their first regular sponsored broad- casts. Miller Sets New Styie Meet the new king! Glen Mill- er is 29 years old. For years, he arranged and played for such Benny Goodman and Ray Noble, forming his own band only when | the time was ripe—when he could assemble musicians ‘suit- able to the new dance style which | | AT PIRATE’S COVE KEY WEST IN | DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Just Five, Ten|‘ently registered at Pirate’s Cove and Fifteen Years Ago As | Lodge and Cottages are the fol- Taken From The Files lowing: Of The Citizen | Among the winter visitors re- ~ |brought him fame. Time Maga- | zine recently said, “The Chester- field Hour connferred Swing’s Pulitzer Prize on Miller by sign- ing him to take Paul Whitman’s place”. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen ‘Andrews Sisters—from Minneap- | olis. They’ve been singing ever | Skeptical music critics and Can you answer seven of these ten Test Question? Turn to Page 4 for Answers i, 2. 3. ant America’s of Canada. What State of W: strait Vancouver Island? With what sport is Wayne Milner A maleable metal sociated? m Name the National Anthem What is a bissextile year? separates ington from the ay be pounded into a thin sheet, will melt at a perature, or is low brittle? What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word cad- mean? How soon after it is render- ed does a decision of the U. S. Supreme Court be- come effective? What is a magnetie pass? Which German districts were annexed to Belgium after musicians as Tommy Dorsey, sr aloe oars * 8 */10. In the U. S., which mnoth is generally called month? vy tem- extremely com- flower “Key West's Outstanding!” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCLNG Well, all right—now meet those | §trietly Fireproof Garago Open The Year Around Mr. and Mrs. “Leander J. Mc- newspaper men were given a |Cormack and son, of Chicago. Mr. demonstration of the amazing FIVE YEARS AGO {McCormack is a world traveler | voice of Chicago-born Susanne Carl Bervaldi was elected to|2nd the author of “Fishing Foster, 15, recently, when she 4 ‘Around the World” (Scribner) sang the scale, beginning with A inet ‘ j]- |the chair ship of the Count; i Thus it seems as though the curtail. aes ot CARRE, at tend has been greatly impressed | below middle C, to D natural with Captain | above C above high C. She made ment of shipping service into Key West meeting held last night Norberg | With his catches w : from Tampa and Havana by the P. & O. |Thompson was elected chairman | MoQuaide ae ees oe cee movie debut in “The Great the World’s Fair Aquacade last may have been a blessing in disguise. Out pro tem. lcintinnats, on _ Mens bal aire aoe summer. LaVerne, Patty and | of this action may come a greatly im- é ig Gaerne Maxene love to sing and dance, Ets - the |@dvertising manager of the Cin-| In the last year 54 American’ they're friendly and charming as | proved service to the Cuban capital an {| better expressing facilities. since they can remember—but it took them years of hard work before recordings -of “Beer Barrel Polka” and “Well, All Right” were hits with the publi¢ this year! Every release since then has clicked like the turnstiles at grow heavier as the seaplane base con- | struction on Trumbo Island gets under way. Jater and Sewerage. mprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. A Modern City Hospital. | Actual construction of jbridges from Lower Matecumbe ; |will begin in the near future, | cinnati Post. seamien have been killed in auto- | thei: i i is ne V - their many friends will gladly Mr. and Mrs. Laurance D. Ely ‘mobile accidents, while only 33. tell you, and when last seen were and their two sons, Larry, Jr.,/ were drowned at sea, indicating all excited that Hitler will remember 1939 as_ the | r in which he bluffed once too often. What a person gets for nothing is appreciated—Christmas _ presents excluded. The Census figures after being pub- lished will make most Chambers of Com- rerce look sheepish, Besides the Orange Bowl, another at- traction that got almost general attention in Miami was the Flowing Bowl. A Miami paper refers to the “uni- +4 camel” legislature of Nebraska. Probably | had been withcut a drink for eight days | and had a thir: Any attempt to weaken or destroy business also adversely affects the work- imgman, for he is an integral part of the structure. Business should be helped not | hindered, then it is the government’s busi- | ness to see that the man who produces the | hi wealih receiv just share, Alfred Smith, defeated for the presi- | dency by Herbert Hoover, suggests seven acceptable presidential timber in- | cluding Garner, who is 71 years old. When about himself, his laconic reply | “Too old.” He is much younger than if ® vice-president. | led to positive insanity. ! will illustrate: | horse. The Citizen has pointed out many times that no one, not even the P..& O., ! should sell Key West short. This city is upward bound and will go far with the right push and effort by our civic and business interests, VAGARIES OF GENIUS Nothing is quite so mysterious as the workings of the human mird. A study of | men classed as geniuses generally shows | them to be a little “cracked” | respects. Sometimes their peculiarities have been harmless, in others they have A few examples Napoleon was afraid of a cat; Peter | the Great was afraid to cross a_ bridge; Martin Luther imagined that the devil ap- peared to him and he threw his ink bottle | at the fiend; Samuel Johnson, Beethoven and Lincoln at times contemplated suicide. Among the ridiculous antics of great |the proposed fish canning plant ments, born at Kansas City, Mo., Washington newspaper disclosed men may be mentioned the occasional habit of Cardinal Richelieu to gallop around a in certain | 'W. W. Easley, bridge engineer : ee zi and Tom, and daughter, Kather. sel eet Pe of New York. Mr. Ely is ‘ivice-president of Peter Cailler! 'Kohler Chocolate Company of ‘New York. Larry is a junior at Princeton and Tom is a senior at | Score|the same college. Katherine is, a junior at Smith. | | The Count and Countess de! John Rivas, who was rendered Mollet of Barbizan, France. unconscious’ as the result of an For the past six weeks, paint- \aecident suffered yesterday whil€ ors have been transforming Pi- driving an FERA truck, has fully yate’s Cove into a “little white ‘recovered and*is able to resume |yijlage”, and it looks most at: | his duties. tractive. The swimming pool has 5 been re-lined and painted in gay | Mrs. Eleanor Hellings of Los colors and an artificial beach has | Angeles, sister of Mrs. J. Vining heen constructed between the |Harris, with her granddaughter, | main house and the pool. |Miss Mary Eleanor Boyd, have} arrived to spend the winter sea- s : eco | ' Today’s Birthdays |son at the Southernmost home. TEN YEARS AGO eecceeeesccasescceccoeee The city council at its regular’ y, S, Senator Carter Glass of meeting last night ordered that Virginia, born at Lynchburg, Va., |an appropriation of $360 be made g9 years ago. to the Southern Sea Products| Helen-Hall of New York City, |Company for the purpose of en- social worker, president of the couraging the establishment of National Federation of Settle- La Tropical baseball club made its first appearance on the field | lyesterday with a victory over the strong Acevedo Stars. was 7 to 5. here. 48 years ago. Charles Gibbs Adams of Los Ernest Hemingway, one of the | angeles, noted landscape archi- they're joining Glenn Miller on Chesteérfield’s big new program! that the safest place for a sailor is aboard his ship. Mayor Clyde Tingley of Albu. querque, N. M., recently took oc- casion to criticize “a fool law’ which came to his attention, and asked how it came about. He was then reminded that it was passed and signed by him when he was governor in 1937. CHARLES ST. AT MI ROYAL AVENUE It is estimated that less than one-half of the money spent by Americans goes for necessaries of | life. About 55 per cent is used to buy goods or services which may be classed as luxuries, or at least as comforts not essential to healthful existence. — TRY IT TODAY — The Favorite In Key West General Sir Guy Williams of the British Army tells of a re- CUBAN COFFEE cruit in his command who was so, ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS | well pleased with his first meal *®© as a soldier that he left a two- renny tip under his plate when he had finished. | Two separate items in a recent (1) that the nation’s capital has; 10 women for every nine men;! (2) that it is the noisiest city in billiard table, imagining himself to be a | most famous authors of the pres- tect and city planner, born in|the country. Whether there is! Adam Smith, the great economist, once walked 12 miles to church, clad only in his nightshirt. Bentham, the phil- osopher, went bareheaded in winter and wore heavy leather gloves in summer. Many men of genius have been shockingly lax in morals as measured by adopted standards. All this does not mean, however, that being a bit nutty is an infallible sign of | genius, There has been a revival of billboards | in the city and on the highways in this vieinity during the past few months. This a time when throughout the nation tere is a growing effort either to banish hem from roadsides and street corners or have them set back far enough that they will neither obstruct drivers’ vision or elutter up the immediate landscape. Washington sent $30,000,000 to Flor- ida for WPA during the year 1939. What ceuldn’t a good business executive have | dene with such a_ staggering sum of money! Now it is all frittered away and what is there to show for it! There was ‘Mtirely too much boondoggling and carry- ing coals to Newcastle. For instance send- | “wr -eversl carloads of apples from the state of Washington to Arkansas, which grows fine apples and where 30 carloads of the fruit were in storage awaiting sale. i UNDEMOCRATIC MARTIAL LAW The State of Georgia recently wit- nessed the use of soldiers, upon the order of the governor, for the purpose of ousting the chairman of the highway. ¢ommis- sion. Gov. Rivers thus follows, as near as we can judge, in the footsteps of Gov. Talmadge in relying upon the military forces to gain victory for him in a dispute that the Courts seem inclined to decide against him. There is little excuse for a governor | in a democratic commonwealth, to resort to martial law in connection with the con- trol of any State agency. ° The use of soldiers, under a declara- tion of martial law, when there is no im- minent danger to peace or public security, | is not a democratic process, ent day, and Mrs. Hemingway, of | o. Angeles, 56 years ago. Paris, France, who spent the two Dr Edwin E. Witte of Madison, | past winter seasons in Key West, Wis., noted economist, born in are expected to return in Feb- Jefferson Co., Wis., 53 years ago. ruary to remain several months.' yay Eastman of New York, au- thor-editor, born at Canandaigua, | ‘The local Red Cross secretary yy, 57 years ago. \called on the County Commis- George H. Houston, president | sioners today to donate $250 to of the Baldwin Locomotive | finish clearing bills incurred in Works born at Covington, Ky., the recent storm relief work. 57-years gao. EE BES Willard H. Dow, president of | | Dr. Eugene C. Lowe and fam-'pow Chemical, Midland, Mich., lily are leaving over the highway porn there, 43 years ago. | Monday morning enroute to their; Florence E, Wall of New York, | |new home in Miami, where the consulting chemist, lecturer on | |doctor will practice his profes- cosmetics, born at Paterson, N. J.,| |sion in the future. 47 years ago. | J. H. Costar, agent of the rival here yesterday over the PEC. R’y. Co. and P. & O. S.S.'East Coast, and was met by Chas. Ce. in this city, accompanied by. ~. Smith, local agent. ‘his wife and two sons, returned | home yesterday afternoon from a visit to Havana. Steamship cpa ea the P. & O. Steamship Company The memorial shaft to the late for the winter run between Key | |Mrs. A. H. McInnis arrived here West and Havana, will arrive! |today and will be placed in the here tonight between 9 and 12 |First Methodist Church in the o'clock. near future. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Yesterday a wireless was re- \ceived here that the steamship | William Rockefeller was ashore 'jiam H. Smith, 1427 Pearl street, |six miles south of Jupiter. The fell to the ground and was run jeoast guard cutter Saukee, now |over and killed instantly. | lin Tampa, is making ready to) | proceed to the scene. | The Exchange Club will enter- | Epalgqre eed tain six officers of the British | E. A. Kelly, assistant general Ships Constance and Curlew at jmanager of the Clyde-Mallory luncheon tomorrow in the Vic-/ Steamship companies, wasvan’ar* jtoria Restaurant. 1 While attempting to jump on a moving wagon yesterday, Phil ip Wadsworth Smith, six “years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- any connection between these | two facts is not stated. | teers { In order to give customers nine hours of football, a coach at the University of Nebraska de- clares his team put in about 285.| hours of practice last year, in- cluding spring training, pre-sea- | son and regular season work- | outs. Some advise against buying a used car, but Emerson Snyder of Meyersdale, Md, found such a} deal profitable. While cleaning | up his purchase he discovered | 500 one-dollar bills behind the | back seat. Voters of Shenandoah, Ia. turned down a bond issue for a swimming pool by 29 votes. 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