The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 2, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che key West Citizen C:TIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. shed Daily Except Sunday By AN, President and Publisher » Husiness Mariager en Building d Ann Streets n Key West and Monroe founty nly Daily Newspaper ed at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press © Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to not otherwise credited in this paper and also 1 news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bid $19.00 230 85. 120 ADVERTISING RATES 3 ade knoyn on pplication. L NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of f 10 cents a line inment by churches from which | Overseas Highway rived are 5 cents a line. n open forum and invites discus- es and subjects of local or general not publish anonymous communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always out fear and w! k the truth and print it wi hout favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, ; aways do its utmost for the faction or class; 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; promise with principle. never com- || IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Pian (Zoning). More Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Hotels and Apartments. Land and Sea. nm of County and City Govy- Airports Consolidat ernments A Modern City Hospital Before saying ‘‘never” remember it a long time. Most people are always ready to’! per] somebody else’s money. | | The question of whether life is worth living often depends on the liver (no pun | BOAT SERVICE ESSENTIAL Every once in a while something seems to develop in Key West that knocks the props out from under one or all of our commercial activities. ‘The latest such de- velopment is the decision by the P. & O. Steamship company to abandon the Tampe-Key West-Havana service for at least two months: beginning next weekend. Until this startling announcement, The Citizen was under the impression that recent events would make it not only im- perative for the P. & O. to maintain its weekly service from Key West to Havana and from Key West to Tampa, but to re- sult in an improvement of the service. The | Citizen believed that the greater volume of ‘ will be charged for at ee freight resulting from expanded naval op- erations, the projected improvement of and the construction of a fresh water supply system and the in- crease in travel in this hemisphere by rea- son of the European situation spread joy through the hearts of the P. & stockholders. We expected them to | see the profit possibilities in these develop- ments. We hoped they would restore the | old service schedules out of Key West. jas | Havana was concerned, News that the S. S. Cuba was to be withdrawn from the Key West run and placed in the Miami-Havana service came a shock to The Citizen, our business interests and our citizens generally. Key West was to be left high and dry so far as transportation by steamship to Tampa and The P. & O. has | even decided to give up its mail contract on this reute. For at least two months our | own residents and our visitors cannot reach | sible, | fruitful in blocking the P. ~ intended.) | . | “The Customer Is Always Right” is the title of a new novel, but there is noth- | ing novel about the statement. | In view of the coming campaign | oratory, it fortunate that radio recep- tion is not so good during the summer. is An alumnus is generally a nuisance, =according to a_ college president. And undergraduates probably feel the same -about prexys. An American youth can tell his lady leve that she looks like a million dollars and she will be tickled pink, but an Eng- | from aga ~lish boy, trying to evaluate the choice of | his heart is at a disadvantage if he uses American slang and tells her she looks like a million pounds. Ovid said that “luck tHing; let your hook always be cast in the _-stream where you least expect it; there ‘-will be fish.” That’s as impractical as any Key West fishermen don’t go where the fish ‘“‘ain’t’ and trust to luck; they go where the fish are, which insofar as Key West fishing grounds are concerned, is al- most anywhere adjacent to the island. affects every- poet. Mrs. Republican leader, asked why women sel- “dom win in elections, replied that any man ~can be elected to office but a woman, in order to win, “must possess the wisdom of Solomon, the acumen of the queen of Sheba, the charm of Helen of Troy, the patierce of Job, the courage of the Amer- May M. Gooderson, a Brooklyn ; ; sula and the nearby | lands “forbidden grounds” | been established within | “fishing” | Havana unless they go to Miami and there | take a boat or airplane. Mail must be routed from Key West through Miami to reach Havana. A whole lifetime of travel- ing habits will be junked. This is a serious situation. The Cham- ber of Commerce and the Key West Hotel and Tourist Homes Association are pro- testing against abandonment of the service and rerouting of the mails as result of this disastrous step by the P. & O. It is pos- but unlikely, these protests will be & Q. The P. & O. in the past has proved itself more powerful than local interests. The Citizen joins with our citizens in | hoping that our civic organizations may be successful in inducing some other steam- ship company to establish a more satisfac- | tory service to Havana and Tampa. RUSSIAN BASES IN THE PACIFIC British, French and Japanese naval men in the Far East are worried over what Russia is doing on the Kamchatka penin- Kammandorsky lands, according to a repert from Hallet Abend, capable Shanghai correspondent of the New York Times. In 1928 the Soviet declared the is- and the belief is strong that naval and aerial bases have 1,100 miles of Japan and in close proximity to fishing areas from which Japan secures one-fourth of her food. supply. Mr. Abend says that many Japanese craft have sailed into the vicinity »f the Kammandorsky islands during the last few years and have never been heard n. The Japanese “support the | pleasant fiction that they were lost in | storms at sea” but “Soviet naval men say grimly that these ‘fishing boats’ were en- gaged in espionage and ‘that they got the | proper treatment’.”’ There is no reason for the United States to get excited about submarine and air bases established by the Russians in this area, even if it is close to the Aleutian islands of this country. is- NEWCOMERS IN BIG BUSINESS Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are in the ranks of big business, it seems, with the announcement that their creator, Walt Disney, will offer $4,000,000 of preferred stock to the investing public in order to secure new capital with which to continue the exploits of these famous film charac- ters. Just a few meee ago Mr. Disney had nothing but an idea. Put into the film _ican doughboy, the guile of a serpent, the | “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” the | untiring energy of an ant, the gentleness idea gr of loye, the Silence of Sphinx, the humor | $4,677 sed, up to the end of last year, 7,862, which is not alfalfa, even ac- of George Ade, the silver tongue of Wil- | cording to Hollywood ideas. liam Jennings Bryan, and the strength of an ox.” Then she might be elected, Juck follows, to the school board. Ap- parently, if she has the first requisite— the wisdom of Solomon—she will remain The common stock of the organiza- if tion, which began as a family enterprise in 1923, is owned by Walter E. Disney, Lillian B. Disney, Roy Q. Disney and Edna F. Disney. Last year the net income of the ‘out of politics, and go back to the kitchen. | business was more than a million dollars. would , - THE KEY WEST CITIZEN LOIS RUBINO OF THE MARINE HOSPITAL By A LOVER OF CHILDREN Cooccccccccecccccecececs Lois, in your mamma’s parlor When at me you coyly glance, How you please me when you're jumping, When™ you dance! When you hug your tiny bunnie, Ain’t you funny, O my honey! jitter, when ‘you! As you're singing Foster’s poem With your daddy at the piano, ‘Beautiful Dreamer’ sounds sweetly With your infantile soprano. Practice hard while young, Cutie singer, now so natty; And some day you will become Just like Adelina Patti. L’Envoie ‘Lois’ means ‘desirable’: Let your scul gifts be apparent; And ‘in, faith be strong’ when older Like Saint Timothy’s grandpar- ent. (Ref. II Timothy 1:5) so you are BOY SCOUT. NEWS Troop 52 Ceiebrates Troop 52, Boy Scouts, celebrat- ‘ed their third anniversary Friday night at Scout Hall, John Ben- nett and Edmund Curry, of the WPA Recreational Department, were charge of the games. Scouts and their guests present included the following: Betty Kline, Betty Myers, Nell Rose Sands, Marie Thompson, Della May Curry, Betty Roberts, Sara Ann Lowell, Norma Jean Six, Ernestine Evans, Marguerite de Leon, Dorothy’ Wickers, Mary Belle Archer, Catherine Conner, Madge Mallory, Edward Strunk, | III, Donald Pinder, Floyd Rus- sell, Billy Ladd, Phillip Strunk, Ward Herrick, Bud Miller, Wil- liam Soldano P. J. Sheurer, Jr., Dick Noyes, Earl Adams, Jr., Al- len Perez, Rayford Roberts, John Marzyck, Ernest Avila, Calvin Cates, Joe del Campo, Oscar Avila, Byron Cooke, Jack Saw-_ yer, Ramon Gonzago jéugene Sawyer, Forest Arthur, Bert Cates, James Kelly, Henry Go- mez, Paul Herrick, Odes Mc- Killip. Chaperones Mrs. John Mar- zyck, Mrs. Frank Curry, Scout- |master and Mrs. Milton E. Saw- |yer, " in WHO KNOWS? pee See “The Answers” on Page 4 “TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Do not say, “Is John i home?"; say, “at home”. TODAY'S DAI DAILY QUIZ ‘Can you answer seven of these ten Tes? Questions? Turn to Page 4 for Answers 1. What is another name for April Fools’ Day? What are the official langu- ages of the Leasue. of Na- tions? After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy, are Filipinos commission- ed second lieutenants in the U. S. Army? Name the three great divi-| sions of the U. S. Govern- ment. What scholastic degree is designated by the letters Die. be Does an electric storage bat- tery deliver a direct or an alternating current? Hoyz much short of eight years will President Rogsevelt have ‘served when his term expires in January, 1941? Is a person who greatly ad- mires or favors England * and English _ institutions called an Anglophile or an Anglophobe? Does a woman citizen of the U. S. lose her citizenship if she marries an ‘alien? Who wrote “The Song Marion’s Men”? POLLS INDICATE F. P. WHITEHAIR AS MAN TO BEAT (Continued from Page One) has been raised about the appar- ent certainty he will be in the second primary, and he and his thousands of friends throughout the state are confident he will be nominated. Whitehair says: “However conscientiously you } of might have been in all your deal- ings with your fellowmen, how- ever hard you might have labor- ed for success, however much you might have .done_ to promote the interests of your community, announce for public office today and you may be sure that false rumors and accusations | will fly thick and fast about you tomorrow. “I have been accused of being a hick farmer, I have been ac- cused of being an unsuccessful businessinan, I have been accus- * ed of being what opponents term 1, When did Russia Finland? 2. How many Federal work- ers were affected by the original Hatch Act? 3. Does diplomatic country? 4. What amendment Constitution authorizes come tax? 5. Who is the author of opera “Cavalleria Rusticana”? 6. How many members has the American Medical Associa- tion? 7. Who commands man navy? 8. What part of Rumania ‘claimed ky Bulgaria? 9. How dependent upon imports of coal? 10. When was the | Anti-Trust Act. passed? invade maintain with this Australia relations to the the in- the the Ger- is is Italy Sherman | Today’s Birthdays | eee | Dr. Nicholas Murray ae president of Columbia Univer- sity, born at Elizabeth, N. J., 78 years ago. U. S. Senator D. Worth Clark of Idaho, born at Idaho Falls, Ida., 38 years ago. Preston Delano, comptroller of ;the currency, Department of the Treasury, born at Phoenix, Mich., 54 years ego. Dr. James Myers, industrial secretary, the Federal Council of Churches, New York, born at | Owasco, N, Y., 58 years ago. Hulbert Footner of Lusby, Md., detective story author, born in Canada, 61 years ago: Clifford K. Berryman of Wash- ington, D. C., cartoonist, origina- tor of the “Teddy Bear”, born at Versailles, Ky., 71 years ago. Rev. Charles W. Kerr of Tulsa, Okla., noted Presbyterian clergy- man, born at Slippery Rock, Pa. {65 years ago. 7's Horoscope Today ka a domestic ba sociable rature, carrying with it! much dignity. There is often a| lack of success which is hard to} explain other than to attribute it jto hard luck. But ill fortune does not. entirely -quench the spirit, even under temporary em-| Ibarrassment, a ‘corporation lawyer’. “My record shows that for year after year for many years I have been among the most suc- cessful growers of citrus fruit in th state of Florida; my record shows I have been a_ successful businessman since I was 13 years of age, if I may apply that term to my boyhood days, for I have worked for a livelihood since I was 13, and my record shows I have been attorney for laborers, ‘businessmen and_ corporations; Imy record shows that even since I have reached my peak of: suc- css as a lawyer I have handled worthy cases for people who could not pay me or were able to pay me only a small fee. “Now, I would have felt hurt had I been accused of being a pettifogger who hangs; around police courts to horn in on a |five-dollar fee, but the accusation | that I have been a lawyer for corporations fills me with satis- faction in knowing that my long study and hard work are being rewarded. What kind of lawyers | do corporations employ? The, best lawyers they can find. What | is the biggest corporation’in the state? The State of Florida it- self, the great corporation of the people, of you and you and you. | “What kind of man do you want at the head of your cor-| poration? If you employ me,} you will find me a man who, as my opponents themselves are declaring, is a good lawyer; you , will find me a man who is a suc- cessful farmer and a sutcessful businessman. “I have earned my success the hard way.; And the. hard way has taught me the value of the dollar. It has taught “‘me that! the dollar is made up of one ‘hundred cents, and many times in my life, while working to get an education, I have been forced | to think in terms of cents and not of dollars, many times in my life I have been forced to value | highly the cents and to spend them sparingly to get the neces- | \saries of life”. NO NAME LODGE) Famous | PHONE NO ' MAF. Mrs. | three-act play PLANS PROGRESS — FOR NEGRO HOME CITIZENS cLUB FORMED; TO PRESENT BENEFIT PLAY TO RAISE FUNDS Mindful of ‘the spirit of the old time South when it was the common thing for neighbors to band together and help one an- other, is the attempt of tMe negro citizens of the city to raise funds for the establishment of a home for their aged. The Coiored Citizens Club working on the project with the help of a number of interested people among the social workers of the city. The movement is being led by Grace Palacious and Mary Mariana. One of the classes at the local negro school plans to present a sometime in the near future and the negro choir will sing during the intermission. Tickets for the performance will go on sale within the next few weeks and the club is hoping that a large number of white people will attend. The proceeds ‘from the play will be put into the building of a home that will give shelter to thirteen jreople. It is hoped that gradually the capacity of building may be enlarged. The Citizens Club has not stopped with the building of the ome. Members plan to have a local minister call on the people once or twice a week and con- duct prayer services. They hope also that medical care may be secured for those that are in need of it. There will be a_ large front room in the house, and there will be a radio for the entertain- ment of the Rae people who will live tnere. Negroes who are | interested in the plans have vol- unteered their services for the housecleaning, laundry, and oth- er work that will have to be done. They are of the opinion that once the home is establish- ed it will be possible to run it for very little money. The location of the home has already been | 'tentativeiy decided upon. Ernest Ramsey has offered his services to the Citizens Club and will advise and help with the plans. DOLL COLLECTION (ny Associated Presa) HULL, Eng., April °2.—Dolls dressed in the ‘uniforms of British sailors, soldiers, and airmen have been added to a collection of 1,- 000 dolls presented to a Hull mu- seum by Queen Mary. Included in the gift was a 25-year-old rag doll wearing the uniform of a World Wer aviation officer. The uniform of each of the dolls, some of which are four feet tall, is correct to the last button. They cost $15 apiece. . DONNELL CANDIDATE FOR ATT’Y GENERAL (Continued from Page One) public-spirited civic leader. He is one of the most influential fig- ures in local and State Democratic organizations, which he has al- ways years a member of the State Ex- ecutive Committee, he proved his party loyelty in the 1928 cam- paign when he was one of few members willing to make public speeches in behalf of the Demo- cratic cause. Soon after establishing himself in West Palm Beach, he was ap- pointed Circuit Judge of the Fif- teenth Judicial Circuit, He serv- ed until 1921 and has since en- | gaged in general law practice and | served as City Mayor and Com-! missioner. He is associated with Attorney C. D. Blackwell. He is a former president of the Kiwanis Club, former lieutenant- governor of Florida Kiwanis; past | member of Masons, past poten- tate of the Shrine, past exalted ruler 6f Elks and holds member- ship in the Spanish-American War Veterans and Veterans of He is a member | Methodist Episcopal | Foreign Wars. of the Church In, 1909, Mr, Donnell was mar- ried to Miss Rena Roberts, of | Nashville.’ They are the Pare) ‘of four children. For Fifty Years A NAME! In Coffee In Key West. STRONG ARM BRAND. COFFEE THAT'S A RERUTATION ~ Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embaimers is, the TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1940 “WEATHER — Observation taken at 7:30 a. raat 75th Mer. Time (City Office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night Mean Normat*. 84 73 78 74 Precipitation \Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches Total rainfall since April 1, inches Deficiency inches Total rainfall since Jan. inches Excess inches 0.05 Wind Direction and Velocity E—7 miles per hour Relative Humidity 0.00 0.00 since feu 1, 0.12 1, 4.90 1 since January N.B.-Comfortable humidity should | be a few points below mean temperature Barometer at 7:30 a. m. today Sea level, 30.08 (1018.6 millibars) Tomorrow’s Almanac Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset 3 Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. 7:39 1:04 FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Wednesday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy and continued warm to- night and Wednesday; to High Low gentle to moderate easterly southerly winds. Florid tinued nesday Partly cloudy and con- m tonight Wed- ome fog tonight. CONDITIONS Pressure is moderately high this morr:ing from the Lake re- {gion southward over the South Atlantic States, and relati y jhigh over the Pacific State |while the western low pressure area, of considerable intensity. has moved eastward to the cen- tral Plains States, and over- spreads the country from the Rockies eastward to the Missis- sippi Valley, Light rains has occurred dur- ing the last 24 hours in portions of the Pacific States, and there has been light to moderate rain or snow in the Rocky Mountain States, and from the Dakotas eastward into the Lake region, with heavy rain reported in ,northern Mlinois. | Tempereture changes have been unimportant, with readings somewhat below normal _ this morning cver northeastern dis- and triet4 and near or above the sea-! sonal average elsewhere. . G. S. 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