The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 29, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1940 The Key West Citizen THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. Published Daily Except Sunday By L. BP. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Busin From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets TWO MUNICIPAL ASSETS ~ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN H : KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY ‘Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Do not say. "We decided to do away with the office ef Recerder™: say. “abol- WHO KNOWS? See “The Answers” on Page 4 Among the recent developments de- signed to better Key West as a tourist cen- ter are the restoration of South Beach and | | the formation of a City News Service | bureau for the collection and distribution to mainiand and northern newspapers of | | Where Florida Fish Are Born ! | | } | 3. Im the sun closer to the tearth in the summer? 2. When Washington became the first President, were all of the thirteen colonies in the | Union? TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ | 3. What is national defense Daily Newspa in Key West and Monroo unty FIVE YEARS AGO Radio programs, phonograph , music and talks on good things to fated Press ely entitled to use dispatches credite? to n this paper and also x ed i news published & calendar Mad fe Citin f public issues and subjects of local or general est but it wiJl not publish anonymous communi- ss ™PROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN CASA MARINA Key West's HOTEL DE LUXE American Plan 200 Delightful Rooms, Each With Private Bath Beautiful Cocktail Lounge DANCING NIGHTLY Casa Marina Orchestra PETER SCHUTT Manager JOB PRINTING 7. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments, Beach and Bathing Pavilion. | | | Water and Sewerage. | | 9. | Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. A Modern City Hospital. What you do not expect does not dis- appoint you. Captain Henry Howard, owner and master of the auxiliary New York Symph | 2 . ymphony Orches- | Yacht Alice, says that the use of tra, headed by Walter Damrosch, | the submarine base to yachtsmen jt; conductor, and Manager G. A. is a boon and is especially pleas- Baldini, and 81 musicians arrived ing to owners of pleasure craft. here this morning from the north Captain Howard and Mrs. How- enroute to Havana, where the| replies | (Pi ) few moments enna.) ‘jater comes our turn. ‘Could you news stories and news pictures. jeat comprised a treat offered the costing the nation every year? | Homes Association in cooperation with | : : ‘ =*| (in their traveling display auto Page 4 for Answers | 5. Has the war increased our aes | ‘day. American F stand? \ley tariff act passed? spirited individuals. Upwards of 100 | ' in known on application. |victed at the last term of Crimin- 8. How many members has | Simonton streets. Rocks were tooled from ere . i eading notice ards of thanks, resolutions of *. ~ < Es | . . f ‘obit =] jsentence on a charge of rape of | ene eaeenly cemsnee ader in the House. of Represen- for entertainment by churches from which and the piers were improved. Other small la parole but the conviction in| 5. Airplane wings are braced character equivalent to our Santa eae : TAMPA, Jan, 29.—Not very exciting to look at, but’here is one! S. C. Weaver, expert refinisher | 6. Who was the leading money- } ; tion. Now the hotelmen are employing a ¥ i Ms | : rf | Haven fish hatchery to keep fresh water lakes in Fiorida teeming | west for a few days. Mr. Weav-| On what river is Liege, Bel- Formation he Ci i of the City ‘News Service |30h, chew af the Elodie State Fair, Jan, 20 throdsh Feb.’ 10, be the guest of A. F. Ayala, sales Ambassador to Argentina, | | ber of Commerce. They are contributing | cee dola? | or recruited from the NYA. No salary at- seoliico ssa ssieseeststis prod By J.C. GALLOWAY {first plants of their kind which |yesterday. Eight demijohns of | being donated. Daily, news letters regard- | Bays tnd Brom Peel ener rene) ity jail. | forward to publications in every section of janother in the series entitled, fish’, says a timid lady. ‘No, These articles appear regulary thi Iki ey thi in Chi Key West mentioned in dispatches cover- meer aoa , Bug dh Onna. and were spare a dolphin? Id like to get South Beach restoration w: - | 2 as under people of Key West yesterday by Cam you answer seven of these; 4. Has the U. S. the legal City Council, the County Commission and ltrain, which was here yesterday | « farm exports? : : ™ : oe Parr EnS 2. Name the capital of Mis-| 7 Where did our truck loads of seaweed and debris aia EOF al Court in this city, will go back | Name the Secretary of State| the Dies committee? obituary notices, ete, will be charged for at | the shoreline of the beach, the backlot was | . which he was convicted several | Why are jewels used. as/tatives? improvements are contemplated, so that : ik cf a ee !Key West rescinds the parole. by exterior rods called Claus? | | of the canal traps where the Flerida Fish and Game Commission !of the General Electric Company, | winner golf professional in} | caretaker to keep the beach clean, a job | with the finny tribe for followers of the niscatorial art. Proving er is a great lover of fishing and quunt bureau was initiated by the hotel associa- | Fishermen and novice Isaac Waltons are sure to like ik cae Se 0S: _____ jmanager of Key West Electric Co., | F x What is the correct pronun- the cost of stationery, supplies and stamps. Mrs. Amparo Cartazar has five | = See | 10. Which is the lightest metal? | ucts of the plants were shown to Sergeant Roker of the Police | | taches to the job of directing the work. b { have been grown in Key West.'the liquor were seized and with| j : BOae: ee Reporter and Argus } | ing tourist activities and visitors at Key ° bibs : : | the United States and Canada. Thousands “Nature Notes”, from the pen of ma'am, I could not self’ them; I Japan, it appears, is about ready to | in the Port Allegany ing the arrival, departure and activities of taken by the Key West Hotel and Tourist | \the Phillips Packing Company | ten Test Questions? Turn to lright to fortify Guam? 2 srous tbe bheingss ‘Gixkd: and | public. iand is giving exhibitions again to- For what do the colors in the; 6. When was the Smoot-Haw- ADVERTIS were | : - | William Bischell, who was con- souri. | originate? | j a | cleared from the sands between Duval and | s SCIAL NOTICE ° . prin : SEECAL 2 to the penitentiary to serve a life | Sepeeee tn Gree ee the Republican e of 10 cents a line. 1 A : i cleared of weeds for parking automobiles years ago. He had been granted | bearings in watches? 10. Do the Russians have a pi | i lons? | | the spot will be a center cf tourist attrac- | struts, spanners or pylons | scoop up the milliors of minnows that are produced in)the Winter!and John McCalmont are in Key 1939? that requires daily attention. | vesulis, the Fish and Game Commission is presenting a great aqua- during his stay in the city will| g Name the United States tion in cooperation with Key West Cham- | - sabe | - and get lots of fishing. ciation of the word gon | : “~ | NATURE NOTES The personnel of the bureau is volunteer strawberry plants now bearing The ‘Citizen today. There are the |Force, made a seizure of liquor! Office, lights and telephone service are | The fruit is very delicious. |the automobile taken to the coun- | West hotels and tcurist homes are going! the Citizen presents herewith, “‘I’d like to buy one of those | . J. C. Galloway. |e A , . : | of newspaper readers up north now see | re might get into trouble’, promise anything that doesn’t mean any- Reporter and Argus, ard are annual visitors to Key There are pacifists in the United States who still think that nobody in the world would dare try hurt Uncle Sam. Trade at home is a slogan that be- | cones a reality only when merchants and | buyers work together, each doing his part. | After listening to some radio pro- ~rams, we wonder why the stations give thein the air, even for money. On second thought most of them should be given the | ar. ! Why is it that when it is ¢ol! someone is always leaving the door open, and when i. is warm they are certain to close it?— “auford Herald. That’s difficult to ex- pin’n, and must be ascribed to the per- versity of human nature. | Thomas Jefferson, author of the D-c- | laration of Independence, did a little crib- bing, like most writers and authors, for the second paragraph of the -Declaration of Ir dependence is a condensation of John Locke’s famous essay on government. | A young fellow from New Jersey who spent his vacation in Florida was arrested on the way down and fined. He can’t be blamed for trying to get to Florida in a hurry, but speeding might have inter- fered with him getting down here at all. Crooks are getting the justice they deserve, and the line is lengthening. Pen- | dergast, a former untouchable, is in the | pen, and now Hines, the New York as-| vciate of racketeers, is facing the big! house, his appeal to the appellate division | of the state supreme court having been turned down. A few weeks ago The Citizen ex- | pressed its indignation when six of the cues | bought by private individuals for the | shuffleboard courts at the County Court- house were stolen. Now it is reported to The Citizen that 12 discs were destroyed by being split in two. This is vandalism | of the meanest sort and calls for action on | the part of the police. If some of these contemptible vandals were put behind Lars for a time it would stop reprehensible acts of this nature. The world is anxiously awaiting the ime when the war on land will begin be- | tween the German and Soviet armies and the Allied armies. So far the French and lish have been dancing to the music wafted across the river from German loud- speakers. A different tune will be played | and a different dance will be danced when hostilities really commence. Unless belligerents get some sense into their heads and call the whole thing off, which, however, dees not seem likely. | be crowned by | restriction of the free flow of traffic. the | visitors from their cwn home towns. The stories are printed without cost by the newspapers because they come under the head of “news”. Key West directly bene- fits by being mentioned in the stories. It was thus that Miami, Miami Beach and Palm Beach were origirally brought into national prominence. No public funds are now available for these important public functions. The Key West Hotel and Tourist Homes Associa- tion decided against a campaign for public subscriptions to support the beach and publicity programs. The association voted | to expand its membership field to include all fitms ‘and individuals in any way iden- tified with the tourist trade or who were interested ir the development of Key West as a tourist center. Consequently it is selling associate memberships. The Citizen believes this effort should success. Membership in the association will mean added strength to an organization that is striving, along with the Key West Chamber of Commerce and other civic groups, to bring Key West’s | tourist facilities in line with the constantly broadening demands of tourists. FREE FLOW OF TRADE What highway transportation means to the people of the United States is evi- denced from the fact that in this country | there are 48,492 communities that depend wholly on motor transport and that are not served by rail. The combined popula- tion of these communities is more than 7,- 844,500, according to the official census of 1930. That exceeds the combined pop- ulation of the twelve states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Washington and Oregon. These communities are not confined to any part of the countgy. For example, in New York State there are 5,107 cities, towns, villages and hamlets. 482—nearly half—are served by motor transport alone. In California, out of 5,- 482 communities 2,240 have only motor transport service. The highways and the commercial truck and trailer have wrought great ‘changes in America. We should be care- ful in legislative matters which deal with It should be a cardinal principle that trans- portation problems ‘should be adjusted to | the néeds of society rather than attempt to | | have Society legislated to meet the needs of any individwal form of transportation. In the interest of the general public, it is not wise to interfere with the normal laws of supply and demand. The flow of interstate commerce should be free from unnecessary restric- tion. It should be remembered that we are one nation and not forty-eight separate | countries, Of these, 2,- | composed while Mr. and Mrs. Galloway were guests in this city during December and Jan- uary. The last article found Mr. Gal- loway picturing life at the wa- terfront. The installment here- with continues at that point: “Up by the street fish are being | hung up to be displayed and photographed, their captors! |standing beside them. _ Some’ are} | the same as we have been seeing. | |But this broad silver scaled one! |with the pale yellow band down the side; that’s an amberjack, |this one only 10 pounds or so,/ |but they often bring them in 35 jpounds weight. And here is a sand shark four feet or more, | beveled at the snout so you could \skid him like a log. One of these |barracuda > brighter than the/ jrest, and .aihes in the sun. And these long mackerel, stiff aud) jstraight as sticks with widely \forked tail and silv-ed all over with aluminum paint, apparently; these are king-fish, that furnish plenty of sport and are the lead. ing commercial fish here as well, being one of the principal and most popular food fishes. “Down on the walk stands a bunch watching something going on; and here another bin has been opened and six strange: fish laid out. Almost thin as a board, tapered like a shingle from head to tail, but between two an three feet long, their heads might jhave been rounded into quarter- circles by a band saw and run | straight to a point to the deeply |forked tail. And they are splash- \ed with wondrous blue and gold, {and sprinkled with: tiny purple dots. Dolphins! Délphins, those \classic creatures of the open sea, |famed for their swift chase of the \flying fishes, and far more for the flaming colors said to ripple on swift succession over the dying {and when they cannot one to mount’. ‘Sure, which one do you want? This one?’ and we carry it to the car and slip it ina sack ready to go home. That’s it; they cannot legally; sell them, but they can and do give them away; do that they haul them back, to sea and dump them. Thus we have ob- tained our barracuda, our bonita, and our dolphin; and if there is anything else we want from the open sea for mounting, it is likely to be ours for the asking. They are fine fellows, those boys. “‘All these’, says Pa White, ‘and red snapper, come irom the Gulf Stream and the open sea’. ‘We haven’t seen any red snap- per’, we said, ‘It’s, not the season for them. The sponges, turtles and mackerel come from the bay; that is, the shallow, islanded waters between the k2ys and th. mainland; and sharks in both places. The green turtles wcn’t bite; the boys go right in the pen, and bring them out. But loggerheads will’ those big ,aws eateh and crunch the big pink conchs, and that’s no light job. We used tc st‘ck a box-board in the mouth of a loggerhead and he would shear it right off. Log- gerheads range farther north; the green turtles don’t’ go much north of here’. ‘How about the trunk turtles?’ ‘They are mostly out in the oven sea. Big, but no good to anybody; they are full of oil’. If we could only know all these old-timers know of the sea out of a lifetime of experience!” Another in this series of “Na- ture Notes” will be presented inj The Citizen in an early issue. gE A cement Today’s Horoscope Today gives a powerful andj West. Pest nee veers TEN YEARS AGO Destruction of the mosquito through the use of the airplane has not become a method accept- jable to the government, the local Chamber of Commerce has been informed by Congressman Ruth Bryan Owen in reply to a request for a plane to be assigned for this purpose. | to give their assistance in the matter and to not allow recep- tacles to be filled with water and, lie about the premises. Many other. preventatives are mention- ed. | | The citizen has been requested | who ha‘e been in the prz :tice of | shooting tarpon and other game fish in Caldez Channe! and other | parts of the fishing grounds that this practice is gradually killing \the sport. ; Potentate Stapp of the Shrine! Tempe in Miami, Mrs. Stapp, Judge and Mrs. W. F. Blanton, / who accompanied the imperial | potentate to Havana recently, | have decided to spend a visit in Key West. At the beginning of! their stay they were taken on a} sightseeing tour by J. R. Stowers. | % | Spain J. Southard, past su-/ preme chief, Knights of the Gold- | en Eagle, and party will arrive | over the highway tomorrow aft- | ernoon. up the party are all from Belle- | fontaine, Ohio. The ‘three local | fraternities will hold a joint ses- sion tomorrow. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO | Governor John W. Martin ig ifish. ‘Why do some have higher fearless nature with large views.| written a letter of commendation |foreheads than others’, we ask. With the aggressive Hature that|to The Citizen, commending the | - cap- goes with this aspect, fame and paper on the stand it has taken ‘The females have them fortune lie close at hdnd. Work |against the wiretappers who had | ‘Bull dolpin’, replies the tain. lower’. But both fishes are thin wi] be accomplished with celerity |chosen this city for headquarters | wedges to swiftly cut the blue and pass out of mind’as quickly; to carry on their nefarious work. | water. ‘Tm tired of restaurant food; would you dress a dolphin for baking and one for steak?’ asks ‘one of the ladies of that party. The captain cuts off a head, cleans the fish and lays it open | in halves in a moment’s time, as though it were cheese, with no bones at all, so skillfully is it done. He slides the knife under | the ribs and backbone and throws them aside; he flattens the skin down on the board and slides the blade over it, and there are \the steaks. It’s so easy .when/ |you know how. t | “There at another boat, bait for) |the morrow is being cut from a |barracuda. The fish lies on the bin cover; the knife cuts even ‘width ribbons one after another | jfrom the outer skin with scales, jleaving a white hide on the fish. |This done, other ribbons are cut |from the white skin with a thin| Hayer of flesh. Tomorrow, slipped | jon the hooks and trolled, these \Tibbans will gleam and quiver | like swimming fish, tempting to \the big fellows. : the events of life will.come and go in the same manner, but the end will rot come til a r ark has been made on the rolf‘of fame. {ed by Constable Leroy Torres and und Out Your K LEAVE KEY WEST 10:30 A. M. EVERY SUNDAY DURING THE WINTER SEASON Arrive Havana 5:00 p.m. the same Return Havana on afternoon. Ys, at 9:00 a. arriving Key est at 3:15 p.m. Deputy Sheriffs Cleveland Dil- | lon and Herman Albury, assist- BYARRENE on SPs EY WEST “ZUIRIP pekryiny on cevey Cuban Taxes 62 To PORT TAMPA and ST. PETERSBURG rounn tap $43 Every Thursday at 5 p.m. m. and THE PENINSULAR & OCCIDENTAL S. S. COMPANY ar alernalin, Tek nal Reals musical aggregation will stage a/ series of concerts under Cuban organizations. | Charles S. Baxter, chief repre- | sentative of the Butler Interests | that are developing the Key Lar- go Club Properties, who arrived here Tuesday, discussed the pos: sibilities with The Citizen andj; We are equipped to do all kinds of print- .0 call attention to the persons Re mbes Tue sear eta || had many complimentary things | to say about the people who dis- | |played an interest in the work. The committee for the Eradica-| iss Thelma Almyda, daugh-| tion of the Mosquito Campaign |... of Me and ee nue has issued a call for the citizens | Ajmyda, and Willia: am Axe were married last evening at the home of the bride, 615 Margaret street. Rev. William E. Bryant, pastor \of Fleming Street \Church, officiated at the cere-|| THE ARTMAN PRESS jmony. { Methodist | ing — quickly, eco- nomically, and with the best of workman- ship. Call 51 for an estimate. 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