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

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen ED d Daily Business From The Citizen Building Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County turered at Key West, Flori second class matter © Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to tor not otherwise credited in this paper and also 1 news published here, $10.00 OTICE rds of thanks, resolutions of ete., will be charged for at ine. nent by churches from which ) be derived are 5 cents a line. n is an open forum and invites discus- issues and subjects of local or general wil not publish anonymous communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it be id to attack wrong or to applaud right; without fear and without favor; never af always fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; aways do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue. commend good done by individual or organ- izasion; 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 Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zonigg). More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. 1 2 Airports—Land and Sea. Consoli of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. Kind words are music to the world. It is better not to believe it until you see it in The Citizen. Man is an imitative animal, or as a} Key Wester put it, “Monkey see, monkey do.” The Ides of March have passed and still no major operation on the western front. What you read in newspaper is unless it is credited to some- body not connected with the newspaper. a probably so, After the primary is cver, the <poli- | cians will be gone with their wind, and the voters will be able to enjoy the calm. The St. Petersburg Times that off Bird Key the trout are going to town. That looks like a “lusus naturae” or just a fish story. says The world’s largest washing machine is on exhibition in New York. It might 1¢ handy for washing political linen during this year’s campaign. While today’s German textbooks give Hitler credit for capturing 12 Frenchmen in_the first world war, the history of his regiment, written before Hitler came _ to power, gives the names and dates of two similar feats but didn’t mention him. is enough to make Popeye sad and the youngsters glad. Tests by the Harvard Medical School and _ others demonstrated that next to beef extract, molasses and net spinach, contains the highest iron value of any food. Besides, it may be added, molasses so much easier te take than spinach. Isn’t that so, kid- dies? This Attorney General Gibbs, of Florida, had been pestered by night-prowling rab- bits nibbling the choice vegetables in his garden at Tallahassee, especially his cab- bages. All his efforts to discourage them were of no avail until he hit upon the plan of tying long strips of paper to strings stretehed along the cabbage rows. Flap- ping of the paper in the Florida early morning breezes has saved his garden sass. | OVERSEAS HIGHWAY TRAFFIC A study of the comparative figures in the March report of Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District Commission reveals ore reason why Key West has prospered the period ended March 31. During March 18,150 automobiles 1761 commercial vehicles carrying 60,106 drivers and passed through the toll gates at Lower Mate- cumbe and Big Pine Key; during March, 1939, the comparative figures were 17,174 automobiles, 19386 commercial - vehicles and 51,438 drivers. and passenger: From Sept. 1 to March 31 last, 82,452 automobiles and 9046 commercial vehicles brought 275,431 drive and passengers through the toll gates, as compared with 82,693 automobiles and 9381 commercial vehicles carrying 244,855 drivers and pas- sengers during the months of September, October, November, December, January, February and March, 1928-1939. Although there was relatively little change in the number of automobiles and commercial vehicles during the two cor- | responding periods of seven months each the number of drivers and passengers in- creased this year by more than 30,000. This despite the fact that traffic during September, October and November, 1939, was considerably below the-volume for the corresponding period of 1938. At all events, the volume of traffic this seascn was something to remark about in all boost Key West literature put out by the Chamber of Commerce and other civic and business organizations. No city can fail to feel a great amount of benefit from the movement of more than 275,000 per- sons through Key West and Florida Key Again The Citizen calls the attention | of our state officials to the monthly re- | port of the Overseas Highway commission. | Unless he is blind cr won’t see, no state of- ficial can fail to recognize the fact that | the 82,452 automobiles and 9046 commer- | cial vehicles that came to Key West or other points along the Keys in the seven- month period just ended required a lot of How much no one can safely We leave that to the imagina- during and Ss. gasoline. estimate. tion. The state certainly received a large | volume of taxes from the gasoline con- sumed along Overseas Highway. seem to be about enough taxes to warrant some active official attention to the pro- posal to repave the old county road, re- | move the wooden bridges and_ eliminate the dangerous curves in the highway. Now that water seems to be on the way, improvement of Overseas Highway the next pressing as most | shapes up problem. PERFECT BRIDGE HANDS Every once in a while we read of someone holding a perfect bridge hand, consisting of all 13 cards in a certain suit. Such an extraordinary occurrence may be ; accounted for in| two ways—either the cards were stacked, or somebody lied. At least, that is what happens in 90 per cent of the reported cases. Of course, the dealing of a_ perfect hand after a legitimate shuffle is not im- | possible, but the chance of any honestly dealt hand consisting of an entire suit is 1 in 158,753,000,000. The improbability of holding such a hand is illustrated by a computation showing that if each of the 10,000,000 bridge players in the United States were to play 15 hands every day, according to the law of averages a solid- suit would be dealt only once in three = It when cards are figured out that shuffled each also has been properly | | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Economic HAPPENINGS THAT AFFECT THE DINNER PAILS, DIVIDEND | ~ Highlights CHECKS AND TAX BILLS OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS INSEPARABLE FROM LOCAL WELFARE The business annalists are pur- course. Their qualified ‘ands’, ‘buts’ and the ’. For the trend of business activity ger quite dilferent than w sied a few months back. The spring slump was expect- ed. What was not expected wa: its severity—worst in our recent history. On top of that, the ex pected signs of betterment have not appeared in particular force. War buying is an important bull- ish factor in only a limited num- ber of industries. The result is, according to Paul Mallon, that the guesscs of even the govern- ment experts “run on the pessim- istic side”. The Federal Reserve Board in- dex of industrial production, which came close to the 130 mark during last winter's sharp up- ward movement. fell to around 104 in March. And the forecast is that it will drop to 100 and perhaps below by the time May ends. Then, the forecasts con- tinue, a new upturn should set in, but few are willing now to gam- suing a cautious forecasts are liberally ‘on with ‘ifs other hands’ ble that it will be as. strong, as- long-lived or three as was months steep or as forecast two ago. Some bi est follow: STEEL: There was a_contra- seasonal decline in production lately. And that leads to the be- lief that a contraseasonal r in production may expected soon, due to the fact that preduc- ticn has Leen lagging behind con- sumption. Daily February out- iness briefs of inter- be ; wsece + TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Never say, “Mrs. Jones’ | help (or hired girl) left without notice’; say, ' “servant” or “maid”. is | TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ It would |Can you answer seven of these ten Test Questions? Turn to Page 4 for Answers Name the largest ship in the world. What kind of Borzoi? Who said: “I have just be- gun to fight”? In which river are the Thou sand ,Islands? Name the oldest univer in the United States? The iaws of the pendulum were discovered by Archi- medes, Galileo, or New- ton? What was Theodore Roose- velt's military title when he entered the Spanish- American war? What i Poilu When was the first official United States census tak- en? Who was the first English parentage New World? Today’s H a dog a child in of the oroscope na- to Today gives a brooding ture, the natives preferring keep by themselves, and leading a solitary life. The tem- per is apt to be somewhat vio- {lent and the desires vehement of player should get a singleton every three | hands, a 6-card suit every six hands, and a void suit every 20 hands. The above figures were worked out by Prof. Woodruff of Boston Tech., who has invented a card shuffling machine which will deal a pack into hands of the ideal random type in four seconds. He has also figured the number of ways in which the 52 cards may be arranged. If anyone would like to see what such,a num- ber looks like, let him write 80,660 and add 60 ciphers. Then try to read it. WHO ARE THE NEUTRALS FIGHTING? We observe that 206 British and French ships have been sunk since the war began on September 3 up to March 16. We also observe that 184 neutral ships have been destroyed in the same period. We know who the British and French are fighting but we are at a loss to knew ,; Who the neutral nations are fighting. i i expression. There is an element of success in those lines which require strenuous action. Travel- ing in sparsely inhabited lands is sometimes indicated and tod: natives sometimes end their in such places. A NEW INSTRUMENT CHICAGO.—Mrs. T. H. Nix- on of this city claimed insurance on her canary. lost in a fire, on U.S. SENATOR DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY MAY 1940 S jel. " |tired, New York business head, born at Mt. Hope, Wis., 69 years | * put was about 104,000 tons, whereas daily consumption in ie same period was 129,000 tons. LUMBER: Demand has _ been fairly good, and operations have been at about the expected lev- Orders for hardwood floor- ing have been especially good. CONSTRUCTION: Has shown moderate increases. Summer almost always brings substantial new building, and that is expect ed as usual this year. Big activi- ty i: due to FHA guarantees of heavy loans to the builder. However, betterment in non-residential building is also anticipated. ELECTRIC POWER: Output is high, and the industry, according ! to reliable reports, plans on con-| siderable expansion and new constructicn this year. This in- dustry’s biggest problem is still political, as it has been for years. WOOL: Prices are expected to decline somewhat, inasmuch as imports have been excessive- ly great. The high level of r cent consumption has been e: ceeded by supply. COAL: The extremely cold winter and early spring. weather | caused consumption to be: high. A sharp decline is to be expected now. It will probably be sharp- er than seasonal, due to the gen- erally lower level of industrial activity. EMPLOYMENT: It is hoped that the new census will at last provide data from which it will ‘be possible to discover more or |less exactly the number of un- jemployed. Estimates range from |2,000,000 to 10,000,000, with the ‘higher figure more prevalent. Today’s Birthdays Prof. Frank L. Mott, the State of Iowa’s School of Journalism, historian of Ameri- can magazines, born 54 years ago. ! Robert E. Sherwood, noted playwright, born at New Roch- elle, N. Y., 44 years ago. Morris A. Linton of Philadel- phia, insurance company head, | born there, 53 years ago. Claude W. Kress of New York, noted merchant, born in Lehigh Co., Pa., 64 years ago. Louis K. Liggett of Boston, United Drug head, born in De- troit, 65 years ago. Mrs. Jewell W. Swofford of Wachington, D. C., noted govern- ment commission chairman, born at Atchison, Kans., 60 years ago. Admiral Luke McNamee, ago. Arthur J. Sinnot, editor of the! Newark (N. J.) Evening News, |born in Newark, 54 years ago. Small Oversight “Did you cancel all my en- g«gements, as I told you, Park- ex “Yes, sir. But Lady Millicent didn’t take it very well. She said you were to marry her next Mon- day”. the grounds that her policy cov- ,ered all her musical instruments. often | Do you lie awake nights? still in the residential field, | dean of; THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1940 CALVES——BUT LEGALS pc LOTS OF MRK org sverrs reeer score FLORIDA. IN PROBATE, In re Estate of KINGMAN, Me, April 4—C., Ana Cordero de Sebase 'E. Chritopherson has a Holstein! NorTick OF PILING cow which will be 25 years old iin May and whose present milk production state agricultural au- PORT AND thorities consider “truly remark- abte”. The following officers for the new fiscal year will be installed at a club smoker tonight of the local chapter, B.P.O. Elks: Exalted Ruler, Dr. H. C Galey; Esteemed Leading Knight ° C. Rodney’ Gwynn; Esteemed Loyat Knight, '€. G. Hicks; Esteemed Lecturing Knight, Dr. Julio De Poo; Secretary, George O. Lucas; Treasurer, Morris Hottsberg; Til- er, Newton Curry; Trustee, three years, C. Larry Gardner. Past-Exalted Ruler Ross C. Sawyer will be the installing of- weekly. ficer. | STATE OF FLORIDA. Members will assemble in the LEGALS BATE. club quarters on Duval street at Pits eek wanvnow, 8:00 o'clock. ‘FRANK E. BRYANT : SEEKS ELECTION ATE! | (Continued from Page One) ‘that city’s City Commission in 1930, was re-elected in 1931 for a four-year term ending in 1935. He then retired to devote all his time to the law praetice. For the past three years, Mr. Bryant has been chairman of the Zoning Board of Appeals of Coral ‘Gables. Organization’ affiliations are listed as follows: Is immediate past-presicent’ of Dade County Bar Assoeation, retiting July 1 of this year. Is a member of American Bar Association, Flor- ida State Bar Association . and fox dower coment Dade County Bar Association.|Key West Citi Has been active in Bar Associa- Ree er a tion affairs, state and local, for aye ab. stone Bre many years and is now a mem- = ber of the Cireuit Court Commis- sion in tke 1th Judicial Circuit. Is a member of the American | Legion, C. G. Post, Coral Gables {Chamber -of Commerce, the First ,;Christian Church, Quarterbacks |Club, Young Demoeratie Chub. ‘and president of University of {Tennessee Alumni Association of yeas County. Mr. Bryant is married and has a son who is a junior in the Uni- iversity of Florida, a daughter who is a sophomore in Florida ,State College for Women at Tal-| ‘lahassee and another daughter | jattending the Dade County pub- jlie schools. LEGALS | }IN cmevIT couRT. -sTaTE or! | FLORIDA, PLEVENTH JUDICIAL | CIRCUIT, MONROE COUNTY. IN, | CHANCERY, |EDNA MARTIN BURKE, j Plaintiff, | ‘otice is hereby that Aurelio a h ned E of the Last ament of Ana Cordero , deceased, has filed with R. Lord, County, he Himaciui eaceeoud Although she has not calved for | Jorida, pet sre at least seven years, she gives | Fxec nd ha five quarts a day. A sample of jth. her milk examined by the animal Cordero ¢ pathologist at the University of PD‘ Maine proved to be normal in As every respect. Subscribe to The Citizen—20c IN THE COUNTY Jt IN AND FOR 3 OUNTY, IN PRO- or | E, Plaintiff, vs. CLAUDE TRIS WALLACE, Defendant ORDER OF PURBLACATION It appearing by the sworn filed in the above-stated {that Claude Iris Wallace, the fendant therein named, is a resident of the State of Flori that her residence is unknown; t said defendant is over the a twenty-one that there person in the of Flor service of a summons in chancery | upon whom would bind said de- fendant. —, It is therefore ordered that sa defendant be and she is hereby quifed to appear to the bill of com- plaint filed in said cause on or b fore A otherwise the tions of said bill will be taken as) confessed by said defendant Ht is further ordered that this order be published once each w here- pre- ch of you, are to sent om Hs Sounty r s the Gounty Court House ef Monroe County, Florida, within eight calendar months from the date of the first publication hereof. Said claims or demands shall be in writing and contain the place of residence and postoffice address of the claimant aud shall be sworn to by the elaimant, his agent or attorney. ‘All such claims or demands not filed within the time and in the fanner prescribed herein shatt be void. Dated the 14th 1940. PAULINE S. WARDLOW, ‘As Executrix of the Last Will and ;; Testament of Mary Eva Wardlow, deceased W. CURRY HARRIS, Attorney for Executrix. marl4 day of March, A D. Cc Saw Clerk 8; apr4,1940 Ry ; Subseribe to The Citizen—20c may2.1940 weekly. Deputy Clerk JOHN G. SAWYER, Solicitor for Plaintiff. pr4-11-18-25; For Real Service For Real Protection DELIVERED DAILY EVERYWHERE Thompson Enterprises INCORPORATED ICE DIVISION PHONE NO. 8 vs. | JOHN S. BURKE, } Defendant. i ORDER OF PUBLICATION | It appearig by the sworn bill filed in the above-stated cause that hn S. Burke, the defendant there- named, is a non-resident of t rida and that his resi- plaintiff; that er the age of there is no Florida the a summons in chaneery bind said de- fservice of upon whom would {fendant. It is therefore ordered that said defendant be and he is hereby re- quired to appear to the bill of com- plaint filed in said cause on or be- |fore Monday, the 6th day of May, A. D. 1940, otherwise the allega- tions of said bil wil} be taken as confessed by said defendant. | It is further ordered that this order be published once each week ifor four cansecutive weeks in The Kev West Citizen, a newspaper published in said county and state. Done and ordered this 2nd day 1940, Ross C Sawyer Clerk Circuit Court. Florence E. Sawyer, Deputy Clerk. JOHN G. 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