The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 14, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO The hey, West Citizen BLISHING CO, INC. Except Sunday By enident and: Publisher ; Business Manager itizen Building ne and Ann Streets Corner Gr in Key West and Monroe County unly Daily Newspa' utered at Key West, Florida, as second clabs matter Member of the Associated Press Ae Assoviated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited: to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here, SUBSCRIPTION RATES ne Year Fes ix Months hres Months Month $10.00 5.00 ADVERTISING RATES 3iade known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of espect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at the rate of 10 centa 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 discus- * sion of public issues and subjects of local or general int t but it wiJl not publish anonymous communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | AN APPEAL TO GOV. CONE! News dispatches from Washington i state that Governor Fred Cone of Florida | called upon President Roosevelt this week | to urge final approval of the water supply | system for Florida Keys and Key West. | It is important that President Roose- | velt’s backing of the project be enlisted, | for in all probability the application of the | Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission for a | $1,000,000 loan from the Reconstruction | Finance Corporation and the $400,000 WPA labor allotment will soon reach the | White House for executive approval. | While lauding the governor’s interest | in this project, which will do so much to | develop the keys and Key West, the peo- ' ple of Monroe county wish he would go to ; bat in Tallahassee for extension of Over- | seas Highway above and below the Toll | and Bridge District. A word from Gover- nor Cone in the office of Chairman Arthur | B. Hale of the State Road Department to | start work on the highway project would THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TODAY'S COMMON: ERROR Do not say, “He plays tennis first rate”: say, “plays first rate tennis”. First rate is an adjective, but never an adverb. THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1940 eeccsonasees eo Today’ s Birthdays ecacacesecocscone | Mrs. Edna W. Chase, editor of Vogue, born at Asbury Park, N J., 63 years ago. Father J. Elliott Catholic clergyman, Baltimore, 56 years ago. Ross, noted born in ~— | Prof. Clarence E. Ridley of. the | TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ | University of Chicago, noted po- Can you. answer seven of these |Mich., 49 years ago. ten Test Questions? Turn to Page 4 for Answers What is the emblem of So-! viet Russia? 2. A clarinet is stringer or wind ment? In the popular song, “Fran-| kie and Johnnie”, which the girl? Who founded Order of Heart? Of what university the the a percussion, | instru- Military ; Purple was Judge Albert Levitt of Red- ding, Conn., born at Woodbine, \Md., 53 years ago. C. Roy Dickinson, president of Printers’ Ink, New York, born at Newark, N. J., 52 years ago. Basil Manly, Federal Power ‘Commissioner, born at Green- jville, S. C., 54 years ago. Dr. Albert Einstein of Prince- ton University, famed exiled Ger- man Jewish scientist, born 61 lyears ago. is TIN BOX SAVES COP NEW YORK.—Had it not been for a small tin box of indigestion litical. scientist, born at. Armada, | ! | | PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWS mm | Honor Roll:at the Harris School (for the sixth weeks’ period end- ling March.8, 1940, is listed as fol- lows: 6A—Patty Duane, Marion So- o, Betty W ton, Nellie Romaguera, Dorine Cruz, Jose Alonzo. ¢ 6B—Kermit June Cottrell. 5A—Joy Avis wood Weech. 4A—Faye Bervaldi. Nettage, Conchita Saunde 4B—Bobby Roberts, Betty Ball, Glenn- Lorraine Armstrong, Felix A—Robert Archer, Harry y, Billy Daniel, Paul John- son, Eddie Weatherford, Billy iGunter, Bobbie Mae Buckley, Joan Knowles, Joan Sawyer, Mary Jane Hanford, Loretta Car- bonell, Faye Taylor. 2A—Shirley Rom, Clara Arma- yor, June Tiner, Al Goehring. ;, 1Al—William Hartman, Eliza- beth Cooper, Albert Garcia, Louis Maloney. Woodrow Wilson the presi- 1B—Anita Fernandez. | work wonders. jtablets in his pocket, Patrolman | Recent users of the highway to the 2 " dent? : Martin Callahan would probably mainland will substantiate the statement E ‘ | 6. How many constellations are have been seriously injured. Dur- | that ti Lisi diti f ing an arrest, the patrolman’s | that the road 1s in very poor condition for ——— What iti ‘service pistol accidentally dis- 4 4 political party or fac- | | highspeed travel between the mainland . tion “Cuc- |Charged. The bullet struck the Special Pier scl Nee Goods | S Sees es | n box in his overcoat pocket, |” Z Tw me and Key West. Sections of the old county koos”? For Two Weeks aes ne LAN socal 5; : jwhich deflected it to the pave- Duyal:at Petronia St. Phone 138 | road are so rutted that cars are frequently Do babies born in the eighth | ment. ‘Special Delivery Key West, Fla. bounced into the ditch. Several of the | wooden bridges show signs of the heavy month have a_ better! chance of surviving than) | wear and tear of thousands of motor those born in the seventh | | vehicles that cross them every month. The Sethi ne | rves betw e st a ji 5 : ; hich state ranks first in curves between Key West and Big Pine gyojtz and their four children, Masons at a joint meeting held Hui beet Cale? Key pre sharp and dangerous. There are who have been spending a de- last night in the hall of the Scot- wee tal met side anit countless death traps for the unwary along lightful stay of two weeks at the \tish Rite Lodge at the corner of At Ten PenlAeeney, S105 iy he highway. Many drivers shi trip to C288. Marina Hotel, while the Eaton and Simonton streets. The the hig WAY: Many <Grivers: SPUN: a) VED) TO governor has been recovering |meeting was largely attended. i Key West like the plague. —— financing slum - clearance projects? | from an attack of flu, will leave! i ; , : : | ” - last night it was surprising to 2 Citizen has ste i in |this afternoon for Tallahassee. | There were 18 realty transfers B : The Citizen has stated many times in jrecorded at the county court. (note that the total yeas amounted | the past and today states again that the The siesta period to be observ- |Rouse.in Key West in the past to 863 and just two voied against. elimination of the wooden bridges and | ed by the Key West Administra- | dangerous curves, the reconstruction of the tion will be changed to the two- few days, the sales including 58 « Py \city and subdivision lots, five! The soul of the “sponge man”; old county road or transfer of the highway sates epee iia al ae | : * *. clo It wi innouncer to the old railroad bed, will result in a yn «006 - i WILL always seek the truth and print it never be LIQUORS WINES Complete Line CURBO’S BAR without fear and without favor; afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight fer progress; never be the or- in the Zodiac? was called gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FIVE YEARS AGO |were elected by the four local Governor Dave Sholtz, Mrs.'organizations of Scottish Rite 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- izacion; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate | and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN ‘pieces of property in the City of at the entrance to the Chamber! Water and Sewerage. this morning. This program will [Key West and three acreage of Commerce was so troubled | tracts on the Florida Keys. last night that he could not get} eee xs See lek df S ’ | to sleep. He is much improved} heavy increase in travel to and from Key |be continued throughout the) Arriving from Havana Satur-|this morning and has placed a! West. The benefits would be many— |summer months. ‘day afternoon will be a delega- 2 5 i 8 ‘ se j sconce is an ‘tion of women from the Woman’s | greater gasoline Eee an increase in toll Approximately 60 members of Club of Havana and also 4 party receipts to bring nearer the day when the ‘the All States Socicty in Miami!from the Pro-Arte Society. of bonded debt might be paid off, and a card on his chest, which reads, “I voted against the bond issue. Are | arrived today by train and williCuba. They are returning a | greater volume of trade in. Key West and SPend today and tomorrow in| good-will visit recently paid by | all along the keys. you the other one?” Key West. While here the group women of Florida. will be entertained by the Key | Governor Cone has it in his power to West Administration and get ac- | win the friendship of a large segment of |QUainted with Tropical Key | West. Monroe county’s population by a_ single \few days in Criminal Court and | executive order—“Start work on improve- | Arriving this morning from ‘the last of these cases was con- — | ment of Overseas Highway”. |Miami was the Jaunch Biscayne cluded this morning when Fe- ‘Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roland of the United States Engineers |]ipe Carbonell was found not Richardson have received word | Department with a group of men ‘guilty. Selling aspirin was the announcing the marriage of their | in command of H. E. Fichter, to specific charge. lson, Harry, to Miss Mildred | make the regular annual survey | aie Peregoy, of Baltimore, Maryland. of the Northwest Channel. Colo-| Rey. Dr. Wm. Ray Dobyns, | Their many friends wish for them | nel George E. Brown will arrive moderator of the Southern Pres-'a long and happy wedded life. | tomorrow ibyterian church, with Dr. S. I.'Mr. Richardson has lived . in F eam Morris, will arrive by train this|Maryland for the past seven! _ An article appearing recently afternoon and will confer with years. in one of the San Francisco pa- | officers of the local church at the | pers makes reference to Chief mianse. They will be the guests} Pay Clerk H. B. Gould of the of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Miller. U.S.S. Mexico, as guest on a ra- ao for Saturday afternoon at the dio program with Bennie Walk- FIFTEEN YEARS AGO ‘home of the club and the presi- er. Mr. Gould is a brother. of Key West voted for bonds and dent desires every member to at- Kelcey Curry of Eaton street. prodeerily and progress yester-|tend as Mrs. Skillings will be —— ay more emphatically than any |present to make final arrange. TEN YEARS AGO other city has ever voted before.|ments for the club play to ne Officers for the ensuing year |When the last vote was counted given after Easter. Comprehensive City Pian (Zoning). More Hotels and Apartments. <—. = Pric Beach and Bathing Pavilion. in Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- Franklin D. Roosevelt, assist- ant secretary of the U. S. Navy, |during the Wilson Administra- tion, accompanied by his’ wife, arrived in Key West today and will spend several days enjoying ithe climate and fishing. They! are much pleased with the city. ernments. A Modern City Hospital. ‘ow Gillette announces a super- service razor blade of top quality tosave you money. Youget good-look- ing, comfortable shaves that protect your skin from the smart and burn caused by misfit blades. Gillette alone, with its world-renowned facilities, can produce a blade like this. And it selis atonly 10c for four. The edges are of an entirely new kind—stand up where the going is tough. Get a package from your dealer today. Normalcy will return to some Amer- when the umpires shout, “Play Eight local retailers charged with violation of the state drug icans, law were tried during the past ball!” We read that a certain popular song writer never had but six weeks of school- ing; and we can readily believe it. aa SIX MONTHS LATER The war in Europe is now six months old. During that time the hot-heads of | European Governments have undoubtedly | cooled off a good deal. This observation | is promoted by the cordial reception given to Under-Secretary of State Welles by Mus- solini and Hitler, neither of whom could say a decent word in behaf of Democratic Governments half a year ago. | There is far less political hysteria in Lambeth is a London metropolitan | the United States about war than six borough, and London has a Laribeth| months ago. The Representatives of the *alace, a Lambeth Bridge, and,a Lambeth | people at the National Capital are using tcad}to say nothing of a Lambeth Walk. | less “ifs” about the possibility and prob- < ability of being drawn into the European | War. That is a good sign. Welles is a messenger of peace from the most powerful Government in the World. It is hard to see how anybody can Indirect taxes are favored by poli- ticians because the public rarely has sense enough to know when they are paid. Thin Gillette By The Maker Gillette Blue Blade = An important meeting of the} Hitler may be crazy but history af- | Woman's Club has been called fords examples of other crazy men who made sane people stand up and sit down when they issued orders. For 25¢ Fhe Tampa municipal court is very | considerate. Traffic violators are made to | serve- their jail sentences on Sundays, so | that #hey can continue to hold their reg- | people and see this new Pontiac. Cheek all the facts and you'll find this big car is actually just as easy to buy and just as economical to “USE ANY yardstick you like,” say Pontiac owners, ‘‘but you won't find any car that gives you so much for 80 little as the new 1940 Pontiac!”’ ular jobs. The FBI agents have been asking some Florida sheriffs how much graft they are taking in for themselves and how much they are forwarding to Tallahassee. J. Edgar Hoover would like to know andi so. would the people of Florida. Another thing ‘the FBI should investigate is the graft that is being paid by state officials | to “collectors” for the higher-ups. That would exude a stench that would smell to the high heavens. But you can’t get those affected to talk, because a bribe-giver is as retten as a bribe-taker, and just as guilty before the law. This column is a strong advocate of state’s rights, but it could never agree with Senator Pepper that “it is the privilege of a sovereign state to have bad govern- nent.” When that condition arises then it is the duty of the Federal government te step in and correct it, as it is an ineon- trovertible axiom that no people want a bad ferm of government, .and if it exists anywhere it is because the people are down-trodden and helpless.as in the case of Louisiana, now happily under the pro- cess of purification. The gcvernment ‘has a right-to strike-at crooked, indeeent and shoeking conditions as it appears are-exist- ing #2 Miami today. object to that kind of a mission, because there is no greater object that might sought by either an individual or a public official thar peace. Welles brings home some pieces of peace bacon. TWO BATTLESHIPS READY IN-1942 The battleship building program of the United States is well ahead of schedule, says Secretary of the Navy Edison but the first of the new battleships will hardly be ready for the fleet until late in 1942 or early in 1943. As anybody ;knows, much can happen in the world during the next two or three years. Whatever happens the United States will have to face the issue with the battleships that this nation had when the World War came to an end more than twenty years ago. In view of everything that has been | printed about battleship construction, many Americans are under the misappre- hension that our fleet has been provided with new dreadnaughts. much as it takes three or four years to build a battleship, and those authorized | do not count in the battle line, it is im- portant that we make plans now for the size navy that we might need in 1945 and | 1950. be | Don’t be surprised if | However, inas- | Special Six 4-Door Touring Sedan, as Illustrated $884* engige is eo with end power packed: with pep ss that every whee! seems to have * RIDEt Here's three-way contral that lays « carpet. of ‘comfort over every road! SIG-CAR-SIZE cad everything that big-car styling, comiort end rosdability! keeps oil sod upkeep bills way down! It’s not hard to figure out. Pon- tiac is a big car, with all the advan- tages only a bigcarcanoffer—yet Pon- tiacis priced right down with the lowest! Isit any wonder so many small-car owners are now swinging over to Pontiac? 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